The Grand Projects
Architectural and Urbanistic Operations after the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition
Description

The research project called 'Grand Projects - Architectural and Urbanistic Operations after the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition' aims at identifying, characterizing, debating, and reflecting the urban policies and architectural works produced in Portugal after the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition (Expo98). The study is grounded on the conviction that the effects of this 'urban laboratory' cannot dispense a predominantly analytical and interpretative work, capable of mapping and qualifying the urban, projectual, and technological culture implemented in Portugal in the two decades that followed the Expo98 ventures. In 2008, a decade past over the Lisbon Exposition, the Lisbon Municipality presented its 'General Plan for Waterfront Interventions' (Plano Geral de Intervenções da Frente Ribeirinha - PGIFR), aiming at establishing new urban continuities, by extending the model of the exposition from the West part of the city to the East (between the Trancão River and the Pedrouços dock), through the adaptation of some harbor infrastructure under the state administration. The dynamics generated by PGIFR framed the development of projects of both great scale and major strategic importance, e.g., the Champalimaud Foundation in Pedrouços district, designed by Charles Correa (1930-2015); the National Coach Museum in Belém area, designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha (b. 1928); the EDP Headquarters at Boavista embankment, by Manuel (b. 1963) and Francisco (b.1964) Aires Mateus; the Ribeira das Naus public space, by João Ferreira Nunes (b.1960) and João Gomes da Silva (b.1962); or the future Cruise Terminal in Santa Apolónia, by Carrilho da Graça (b.1952), currently under construction. The research project 'Grand Projects - Architectural and Urbanistic Operations after the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition' seeks to deepen the relations produced by urban interventions with specific contexts in which they operate on. The distinctive feature of this project consists in the launching of a critical approach based on three overlapped analytical focal points: territory, urban and architectural culture, and social impact related with the interventions. In the present research, Lisbon will serve as a primary study case, from which comparative extrapolations for other cases will be made in order to measure the impact and the culture of the project extracted from the World Exposition experience, namely through the Polis Program (Portuguese Program on Urban Environment). Comparative studies will also be established with similar urban interventions carried out after other great events from the last decade of the 20th century, e.g. the cases of the Spanish cities of Barcelona after the Olympic Games, and Seville after the World Exposition, both in 1992. Another case will be Hannover after the 2000 World Exposition.

Internal Partners
Research Centre Research Group Role in Project Begin Date End Date
DINAMIA'CET-Iscte Cities and Territories Leader 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
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Project Team
Name Affiliation Role in Project Begin Date End Date
Paulo Tormenta Pinto Professor Catedrático (DAU); Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Global Coordinator 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
Alexandra Saraiva Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Researcher 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
Alexandra Belo -- Researcher 2018-11-12 2022-09-30
Ana Vaz Milheiro Investigadora Coordenadora (DAU); Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Researcher 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
Ana Gabriela Bastos Gonçalves Professora Auxiliar (DAU); Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Researcher 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
Ana Brandão Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Researcher 2019-04-16 2022-04-14
João Paulo Fialho de Almeida Pereira Delgado Associate Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Researcher 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
José Luís Possolo de Saldanha Professor Associado (DAU); Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Researcher 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
Teresa Madeira da Silva Professora Associada (com Agregação) (DAU); Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Researcher 2019-07-01 2022-09-30
Nuno Tavares da Costa Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Researcher 2018-10-01 2020-06-15
Pedro Luz Pinto Professor Associado (DAU); Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Researcher 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
Pedro Costa Professor Associado (DEP); Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Researcher 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
Sandra Marques Pereira Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Researcher 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
Vitor Manuel Matias Ferreira -- Researcher 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
Vitor Manuel Mingacho -- Researcher 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
Inês Cayolla -- Research Assistant 2019-03-01 2022-09-30
João Oliveira Costa -- Research Assistant 2019-02-01 2022-09-30
Sara Silva Lopes Research Assistant (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); Research Assistant 2019-07-01 2022-03-31
Project Fundings
Reference/Code Funding DOI Funding Type Funding Program Funding Amount (Global) Funding Amount (Local) Begin Date End Date
PTDC/ART/DAQ/32561/2017 -- Contract FCT - -- - Portugal 233368,25 233368,25 2018-10-01 2022-09-30
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Architectural and Urbanistic Operations after the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition
2018-10-01
2022-09-30