MORE: International Conference on Architecture and Gender

Together with a wonderful group of scholars, architects and artists, I will participate at the Third International Conference on Architecture and Gender, this time aptly titled MORE: Merge, Open, Resignify. Expand. 

It will take place at UniFi School of Architecture in Florence on 26-28 January 2017. I am looking forward to this conference, since I have participated in all International Conferences on Architecture and Gender, and it is wonderful to see this project unfold. 

On the conference's website you can read several interviews to some of the participants, including Núria Lombardero, Joyce Hwang, Patrícia Pedrosa, Martha Thorne and myself among many others. 

Dear Mayor...

This is the beginning of my letter to the mayor of Lisbon, part of the event and exhibition 'Letters to the Mayor' curated by Ivo Poças Martins and part of the Lisbon Architecture Triennial 2016. All participants in this year's Triennial were invited to write a letter to the mayor of Lisbon expressing their concerns and/or desires about the city. 

'Letters to the Mayor' is an initiative of the Storefront for Art and Architecture to catalyse the dialogue between designers and political authorities. Since 2014 this event has happened in various cities, such as New York, Panama City, Mariupol, Bogotá, Taipei, Athens, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Madrid and São Paulo.

If you wish to read my letter you may do it here. You can read all the letters at the city hall Paços do Concelho, until November 20 2016. 

The Shape of Plain: Teaser

The design team of the Gulbenkian Museum made this wonderful teaser trailer for the exhibition "The Shape of Plain." 

Opening: The Shape of Plain

The opening of the exhibition The Shape of Plain, will be today at 6 pm at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.