Living in Lisbon

Marta Sequeira & Daniela Ortiz dos Santos

Lisbon is being ravaged by an unprecedented housing crisis. The exponential increase of prices, the combined outcome of the financialisation of housing and the lack of continued investment of public policies, means that every Portuguese person is, or knows someone who is, affected by the crisis. There is a restless public debate, but little has been told about the buildings that will give shape to the political strategies that are being conceived and implemented. Which city do we wish to build to face the problem? What can be the role of architecture in this context?

Living in Lisbon concisely presents the conjecture and possibilities of action to think about the building of the city. The book includes an overview of the most charismatic architectures resulting from public housing policies that have been built in Lisbon over the course of 50 years of democracy, describes the main projects that are currently on the table, presents analytical visions of the present situation and freely envisions plans for the future in the form of dialogue, essay or manifesto.

This event has been conceived by Daniela Ortiz dos Santos and Marta Sequeira together with the workshop ‘Spatial Practices and Housing in Frankfurt’ in the scope of a Blended Intensive Program from the Erasmus mobility program.

Living in Lisbon. An Architectural View on Housing Challenges

Co-edition CCB, Dinâmia’CET Iscte and Monade
Edition by Marta Sequeira

29,7 x 21 cm, 160 pages

ISBN 9789895370566

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