Materiality, beyond the norm | “From Object to Territory: Trajectory, Project and Purpose”
Materiality, beyond the norm | “From Object to Territory: Trajectory, Project and Purpose”
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The Department of Architecture and Design is hosting its Lecture Series for the AY 2024/25 “Materiality, beyond the norm” titled “From Object to Territory: Trajectory, Project and Purpose”, on 18 June, from 7 – 8PM in the Don Bosco Auditorium.
Architecture and Design Department 2024-25 public lecture series
Materiality, beyond the norm
The USJ Department of Architecture and Design (DAD) announces its 2024-2025 Lecture Series: Materiality, Beyond the Norm. This series invites students, architects, designers, and the broader community to engage in open dialogue with leading practitioners who are redefining the boundaries of architecture and design. As the world grapples with significant challenges, this lecture series will explore how innovative approaches to materiality can reshape our built environment. By focusing on the intersection of form, function, and substance, the lectures will inspire critical thinking and encourage unconventional design solutions.
DAD is committed to fostering a culture of experimentation and innovation. At USJ, we aim to showcase the work of visionary studios and stimulate conversations that push the boundaries of traditional architectural and design practices. Join us for a series of thought-provoking lectures that will ignite your creativity.
About the Talk:
The lecture explores the evolution of architectural thought, moving beyond the isolated architectural object to consider its profound impact on the surrounding territory. It delves into the trajectory of architectural ideas, examining how designs are not merely static structures but dynamic forces that shape and are shaped by their environments.
About the Speaker:
Luís Pedro Crisóstomo – Saraiva + Associados
Delegate of the Order of Architects, APCEN and Docomomo International. Fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the University Architecture Institute of Venice, the Board of European Students of Technology, the Erasmus Program and the Leonardo Project.
In 2001, obtained a degree in Architecture with the dissertation – The Construction of Metaphors or The Wire of Ariadne, about the interdisciplinary relationship between theater and architecture, which gives him the grade of 19 (out of 20), under the guidance of Alexandre Alves Costa and Ricardo Pais. Studies in architecture and urbanism, design and set-design at the University of Coimbra, at IUAV – University Architecture Institute of Venice, Italy, at ETSAB-UPC – Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona – Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain and at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture in Hungary. Between 1990 and 1992 he participated as a tenor and board member in the Orfeon Académico de Coimbra. Between 1991 and 1997 he participated as an actor, set designer, photographer, graphic designer at TEUC (Theater of Students of the University of Coimbra) where he works with João Grosso, José Neves, Rogério de Carvalho, among others. In 1992, he participated with Ricardo Pais and the architect José Manuel Castanheira event Coimbra Capital of Theater and Coimbra Capital of Culture in 2003.
He has worked in architecture, set-design and fine arts since 1994, the year in which he began his collaboration with the architect João Mendes Ribeiro, in the development of public and private works and in Set -Design for clients such as S. João-Oporto National Theater, D. Maria-Lisbon National Theater, S. Carlos-Lisbon Theater, Olga Roriz Dance Company. In 1997/98, in Barcelona worked with the architects, Pere Baños, Elias Torres and Martinez Lapeña. Still in 1997 he worked with the architect Enric Ruiz Geli in the play “The Death of Danton” by Robert Wilson NY, presented in Salzburg in the summer of 1998. In 1999, he produced the first of three installations – starting from emptiness, almost nothing or my own electric chair, at the Gil Vicente Academic Theater in Coimbra. In 2000, produced the second and third installation – Lone.Li.Ness – state of being and Blindness Land for the ‘Alquimias’, exhibition at the Monastery of S. Francisco in Coimbra. The trilogy results from a research and approach of inter and transdisciplinary relations between theater, the fine arts and architecture.
He has collaborated with Bix-Project in Lisbon between 2006 and 2007, becoming an integral part of the project team and urban design, in the production and image department of AAPB-Portugal in 2007. In 2011, as coordinating architect in the department of strategic architecture of production and image, he joined the team of Decriativos SA.
He is a researcher and doctoral student of Architecture and Urbanism. Invited in 2015 by the Portuguese Association of Scenography to integrate the project of Official Representation of Portugal, in the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in the Czech Republic, with the installation – On the Memory of a Body’s Speed. That same year he began to collaborate with the National Museum of Theater and Dance, and with the Northern Regional Section of the Order of Architects. It presents the installation – My Own Private Phosphenes, in the Museum of the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha in Coimbra and in the National Museum of Soares dos Reis in Oporto in 2016. In December of that same year, – The Weight of Dust | O Peso do Pó, for Lisbon Concept Fashion Design. From 2017 integrates the Saraiva + Associados team.
Details:
Date: Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (Macau)
Location: Don Bosco Auditorium, USJ Ilha Verde Campus
Language: English
Organised by: Department of Architecture and Design – Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Moderated by: Prof. Filipe Afonso, Coordinator of the Bachelor of Architectural Studies | filipe.afonso@usj.edu.mo
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