The SAAL Process: Housing in Portugal 1974–76
Tuesday, May 12, 20156:30 PM — Sunday, Oct 4, 201511:59 PMEDT
| Canadian Centre for Architecture Montreal, Canada
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“The Right to a Place, the Right to the City” Born out of the Portuguese revolution of April 25, 1974, SAAL―the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service)―was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities. The exhibition brings together a selection of ten influential housing projects that reflect the diversity of SAAL procedures and approaches. The objects it presents—including architectural plans and blueprints, surveys and materials developed by the SAAL brigades, and historical and contemporary photographs—testify to the full range of urban solutions that the program’s architects attempted to implement. From the historic city centre to the sprawling slums of the periphery, the SAAL process introduced new housing typologies and brought to view alternative ways to plan the city. Simultaneously utopian and pragmatic, SAAL demonstrates the challenges and opportunities of a process that was mandated from the top down while intended to be developed and addressed from the bottom up. More event info: www.cca.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/2562-the-saal-process
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