Casa da Arquitetura, José Tolentino Mendonça and José Luís Peixoto participate in FLIP

Start of Casa da Arquitetura

In parallel, Casa da Arquitetura launched its program at FLIP+ with the presence of writers Valter Hugo Mãe and Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, and architect Solano Benítez. This segment will host over fifty Portuguese and Brazilian guests, distributed across sixteen debate panels, editorial launches, and encounters focused on themes such as literature, architecture, heritage, territory, environment, and climate change, as announced by Casa da Arquitetura - Portuguese Centre for Architecture, which is responsible for the curation.

Partnerships and Thematic Debates

This action is the result of a collaboration between Casa da Arquitetura and the literary festival, integrated into the FLIP+ program, whose purpose is to expand approaches and 'articulate new voices, languages, and channels of dialogue,' complementing the festival's main literary program. The opening of the program includes the meeting 'When the Century,' which will debate the present time, memory, human vulnerability, and the role of literature in the face of 21st-century challenges, featuring Portuguese writer Valter Hugo Mãe and Brazilian novelist Carla Madeira.

Valter Hugo Mãe will return on the last day to discuss collective memory, social transformations, and the capacity of literature to conceive possible futures with Brazilian writer Ignácio de Loyola Brandão.

Architecture and Sustainability

Architecture and territory are central points at FLIP+. Creators such as Paraguayan architect Solano Benítez, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, Portuguese architect Inês Lobo, and architectural critic Fernando Serapião are involved. In a debate on urban strategies for climate change, Paula Mascarenhas, Renato Ogawa, and Silvério Regalado, Secretary of State for Local Administration and Territorial Planning, will participate. Another debate, focused on architecture as a driver of development, will feature Luís Pedro Martins, President of Tourism of Porto and Northern Portugal, and Nuno Sampaio, Executive Director of Casa da Arquitetura.

Participants and Editorial Launches

Among the guests announced for this partnership with Casa da Arquitetura were the Portuguese Minister of Environment and Energy, Maria da Graça Carvalho, and the Brazilian Minister of Environment and Climate Change, João Paulo Capobianco. Casa da Arquitetura's editorial dimension will be represented by the launch of three works: 'Lucio Costa Archive,' based on the estate of the Brazilian urban planner kept at the Portuguese institution; a new edition of 'Roots of the Future: Lucio Costa and Modern Tradition'; and 'Building the Open. Architecture and Verse,' which unites poetry, architecture, and photography.

Additionally, the proposal 'The future as a library: words, utopias, and dystopias,' organized by the Culture Department of the Porto City Council and moderated by councilor Jorge Sobrado, will bring together Eliana Alves Cruz, Rui Couceiro, and Vivien Mercier Suarez.