les universalistes - 50 ans d'architecture portuguaise
The exhibition “les universalistes – 50 ans d’architecture portugaise”, celebrating the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s 50th anniversary in Paris (Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine), showcases some of the best Portuguese architecture in search for the universalist movement already present in Portuguese literature, cinema and arts.
This exhibition offers a view of half a century of thought and architectural production in Portugal. It allows the viewer to discover how Portuguese architecture was influenced by, and also marked, the cultural and social context of the country. It defends one point of view: that there is a particular and latent ‘universalism’ in the way the best Portuguese architects have created their work, from generation to generation, while maintaining a balance between the universal heritage of the history of architecture and the cultural and geographic constraints of the places they build their work. Put differently, by operating a coherent and critical fusion between ‘global’ and ‘local’.
Nuno Grande (Curator of the exhibition)
Co-organised by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine.
Curator: Nuno Grande.
Scientific council: Eduardo Souto de Moura.
Scenography: Jean-Benoît Vétillard, architecte, assisted by Louis Mounis.
In collaboration with Change is good ( Ze Albergaria & Rik Bas Backer. )
Graphism: Change is good, assisted by Louis Ziegle.
Lighting: Raymond Belle
Photos: copyright Gaston Bergeret, Louis Mounis
