“Radar Veneza – Portuguese Architects at the Biennale 1975-2021″, curated by Joaquim Moreno and Alexandra Areia, was on show from 8 May 2021 to 30 January 2022 at Casa da Arquitectura – Centro Português de Arquitectura. The exhibition proposes a reflective journey on the Portuguese participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale over 46 years, from 1975 to the present day.
The Directorate-General for the Arts deposited at the Casa da Arquitectura the collection of the Portuguese representations at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and it is on this collection that the exhibition is worked by the curators Joaquim Moreno and Alexandra Areia, bringing together projects by some of the most considered names in Portuguese architecture. The exhibition “Radar Veneza” has the homonymous catalogue, with essays by Joaquim Moreno, Alexandra Areia and Léa-Catherine Szacka (architect, critic and expert on the Venice Biennale).
Radar Veneza in figures
The exhibition offers 78 metres of an illustrated and annotated collaborative chronology and a set of 24 surveyed drawings. It covers 10 national representations, around 30 individual entries and around 10 entries in collateral events. With 120 illustrative images, it shows 32 interviews, divided into 5 nuclei, with Álvaro Siza Vieira, Ana Neiva, Cláudia Taborda, Delfim Sardo, depA, Didier Fiúza Faustino, Souto de Moura, Filipa César, Francesco Dal Co, Francisco Aires Mateus, Inês Lobo, Inês Moreira, João Nunes, João Onofre, João Pedro Serôdio, Joaquim Moreno, J. António Bandeirinha, José Manuel Fernandes, José Mateus, Julia Albani, Luís Tavares Pereira, Manuel Henriques, Nuno Brandão Costa, Nuno Faria, Nuno Grande + Roberto Cremascoli, Paula Melâneo, Pedro Campos Costa, Pedro Gadanho, Ricardo Jacinto, Rui Furtado, Susana Ventura and Ughetta Molin Fop.
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Curators
Alexandra Areia
Alexandra Areia, Architect, Integrated Researcher at DINÂMIA-CET, ISCTE-IUL, currently working on the research project Middle Class Mass Housing (MCMH). PhD from ISCTE-IUL in 2019, with a thesis on the communication of architecture through film media (analysing the specific case of Manuel Graça Dias and his RTP television program in the 1990s); Master by the Metropolis program of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) in 2007; Studied at École Nationale Superieure d’Architecture Paris Val-de-Seine (ENSAPVS) in 2002-03; Graduated in architecture by Minho University (UM) in 2004. Member of the Friendly Fire collective since 2010, Programmer of Arquiteturas Film Festival in 2014-16, Editor at the Jornal Arquitectos (J-A) in 2016-18. In 2019, wrote for Porto Brutalista (Circo de Ideias) and co-edited A Map of Lisbon in Cinema (Dafne Editora and Lisbon Municipal Archive – Videoteca).
Joaquim Moreno
Joaquim Moreno (Luanda, 1973) holds a degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Oporto (1998); a Masters Degree (pre-Bologna) in Architecture and Urban Culture, Barcelona School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2001); Doctorate in Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University (2011). Independent curator since 2002, in a continuous work that includes the exhibition “Desenho Projecto de Desenho” (2002), in co-curatorship with Alberto Carneiro, dedicated to architectural design in the Portuguese XX century, the Portuguese representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008, with philosopher José Gil, the exhibition “Guido Guidi/ Carlo Scarpa: Tomba Brion” at Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon, 2014-15) with Paula Pinto and also the exhibition “The University is Now on Air”, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, dedicated to the teaching of Modern Architecture through Radio and Television that the English Open University proposed in the 1970s.
He is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Oporto.