The Young New
March 15–September 4, 2022
Sound It: Rádio Antecâmara
Curators: Alessia Allegri and Pedro Campo Costa
Sound installation: João Galante
Making use of Hertzian waves and digital circuits, Rádio Antecâmara opens new perspectives on the constructed environment, questioning and expanding its meaning. It’s through dialogues between architects, artists, designers, and in conversations with poets or landscape architects, among interludes made of sounds and music, that Rádio Antecâmara takes a close look to our contemporaneity.
Around the performative and inhabited space of the studio, an elliptical path takes us to some “sensed” territories. Moving on the ellipse becomes a pure sound experience, reminding us that the space we inhabit is not only built of walls. One of those spatial materials, that we can’t see but feel, it’s sound.
By presenting this sonic dimension of space, Sound it explores the ways through which sound builds and shapes spatial perception and experience. It’s a subjective journey to discover an invisible architecture, a space sonically perceived, an audible and emotional place.
The Young New
Curator: André Tavares
Architects imagine things that don’t exist. This exhibition shows the paths of this invention, needed new ideas and, also, the will of a new generation to build better. It presents five architecture studios—rar.studio, fala, Diogo Aguiar Studio, Ponto Atelier, Barão-Hutter—working in Lisbon, Porto, Funchal and St. Gallen. They show us a quality and variety of proposals to transform the places we inhabit. Above all, they construct a portrait of today’s concerns, objectives and work processes—naturally different from the other architects and architecture that preceded our time.
The new architects have different concerns, ambitions and modus operandis from previous generations and, as this exhibition seeks to demonstrate, they respond more acutely to the new challenges of the present and the future. Maybe for that reason, The Young New are not being presented in the form of a manifesto, but as a set of fragments and ideas that echo each other whilst indicating divergent paths. Each studio brought a completed work and a project yet to be built, capable of explaining what we have to gain by entrusting more responsibility to a new generation of architects. The Young New don’t cross their arms before this pressure and, as their body of work grows, they show both the vitality of the discipline as a form of knowledge, and how much better our future could be.
Both exhibitions are accompanied by a public program including site and exhibition visits. View more information here.
About Garagem Sul
Garagem Sul is a space dedicated to architecture at Centro Cultural de Belém, a cultural venue in Lisbon known for its music, dance and theatre program. Housed in a former parking garage, Garagem Sul offers a unique atmosphere for the presentation of architectural works and ideas. Projects at the Garagem seek to present a wide range of different positions through which architects might redefine their role in society, and interrogate new means of building our world.
