Welcome To The Form of Form (4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale) | Nuno Brandão Costa + Johnston Marklee + Office KGDVS

Welcome To The Form of Form (4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale) | 

Nuno Brandão Costa + Johnston Marklee + Office KGDVS

GALLERY, INSTALLATION, TEMPORARY INSTALLATIONS•LISBON, PORTUGAL

Architects: Johnston Marklee, Nuno Brandão Costa, OFFICE Kersten 

Geers David Van Severen

Year: 2016

Photographs: Tiago Casanova, Arménio Teixeira

One of architecture’s fundamental legacies is its own form. Not only 
is history built from its visual universe, but form is also a common 
language that brings together architects from all over the world in 
a collective conversation. In this exhibition, which proceeds from a 
potentially infinite repository, three architects—Johnston Marklee, 
Nuno Brandão Costa, and Office KGDVS—build a dialogue that 
challenges notions of authorship and the limits of form.
Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli were invited to reflect upon 
a selection of examples from their platform, Socks Studio. They 
highlight the permanence of form and its capacity to condense a set 
of values into any visible thing. The Socks format has evolved over 
the years from an online magazine to become a platform for 
speculation and discussion that also draws on Microcities’ own 
architectural projects.
Functioning as a “conversation,” the narrative of the exhibition has 
been developed around a number of spaces that are inspired by 
examples of architectural designs by the architects. Each of the 
spaces is designed to house content selected from the extensive 
Socks database.
The language of architecture is explored through a sample of 
construction drawings, landscape interventions, urban plans, 
artistic investigation, and other elements. Originating from 
different time periods and regions of the world, the content 
highlights what remains constant and what changes, as well as 
identifying analogies and affinities in the creation of the built 
environment. Organized along twelve interlinked spaces, with each 
space incorporating images related to a core element, the exhibition 
defines continuous seam of works that are directly inter-related, be 
it through affinity or opposition.
Curated by Diogo Seixas Lopes, The Form of Form exhibition is also a 
process in itself. The ultimate aim is for it to become a “meeting 
space” that can demonstrate the meaning of form in architectural 
design – in the past, present and future.

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