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"Mui Nobre e Sempre Leal Cidade D' Évora" Sculpture ~ Jardim Diana, Évora, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Cais Sodre, Lisbon - Portugal

Miradouro São Pedro Alcantara, Lisbon - Portugal

Lagos, Algarve - Portugal

White Lisbon. The home of the Lisbon Town Council a dignified square where the light can make stone seem weightless. De Lisboa Praça Municipio Let us begin at the The Lisbon Town Council buildings at Praca do Concelho near Praca Comercio and the Post Office where the King was assassinated in 1908. The intense light here gives the stone of the central spiral a gravity defying lightness. An 18th Century construction made from a single stone, nowadays accompanied in the square by more modern playful pieces. De Lisboa Praça Municipio The town hall building itself was designed by Domingos Parente and contains impressive paintings and a wonderful staircase. Let us go now down Rua Arsenal where there is an intense smell of dried fish towards Rua Alecrim with it's trendy shops to the transport center of downtown Lisbon. Cais Sodre.

Praça Luis de Camões - Lisbon

Lagos, Algarve - Portugal Pavements of Pleasure : Walking choreographies, visual illusions and emotional landscapes of waiting Ana Luz, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London "Using the site-specific traditional mosaic systems of the Portuguese sidewalks as reference, this paper will discuss the possibility of a walking notation for urban pavements. Three diverse but linked conceptual frameworks will be considered: 1. conceptions of aesthetics of mobility and of disappearance; 2. principles of optical art, anamorphosis and visual illusions; and 3. theories of playability and pleasure. It will be argued that pavements can deepen the poetics of any given place, in particular the uninspiring spaces of mobility and travel like transport nodes, where spatial practices such as walking and waiting are embodied by the tempo of empty and negative times of boredom. Keywords Pavements; Portuguese sidewalks; walking choreographies; visual illusions; playability. Intro...