Lab2PT invites all interested to participate in the launch of the book Atlas Paraíso, hoje, on November 8th.

 

The book Atlas Paraíso, hoje is a publication resulting from the curatorial project that represented Portugal at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale.

The Atlas proposes a reflection on contemporary territory through architecture and landscape architecture developed in Portugal in recent decades. With over 700 images – bringing together architects, landscape architects, photographers, and a public Open Call – the book presents a manifesto (by the curators of the Portuguese Pavilion), three essays (by essayist António Guerreiro, architect Maria Manuel Oliveira, and artist Nuno da Luz), and interviews with four landscape architects (Aurora Carapinha, João Gomes da Silva, João Nunes, and Luís Paulo Faria Ribeiro), offering a critical, yet optimistic, perspective on landscapes shaped by often antagonistic interests.

 

The book Atlas Paraíso, hoje. explores different ways of thinking about paradise today, organized around themes such as: experience, regeneration, leisure, networks, return, cultivation, simulacrum or fiction – while remaining open to other interpretations that emerged through submissions received in the Open Call. The collection of multidisciplinary contributions broadens the themes, contextualizes diverse meanings of paradise, and points to directions for thinking about and working on the future of territory and landscape.

 

The book is bilingual (Portuguese + English), published by Circo de Ideias, and has graphic design by Vivóeusébio.

 

The book launch will be accompanied by a debate:

The debate Paraíso, hoje. seeks to question the meaning that the word paradise can still have in the cultural construction of the contemporary landscape, at a time when territorial planning, or its absence, seems to give way to antagonistic interests that jeopardize environmental balance on a planetary scale. For this debate, authors from different disciplinary areas (architecture, landscape architecture, photography, art, literature) have been invited to discuss what we can still do to counteract the “world on fire”.

 

Debate Speakers:

António Guerreiro, Duarte Belo, João Gomes da Silva, João Nunes, Maria Manuel Oliveira and Paulo Catrica

Moderation: Pedro Bandeira and Catarina Raposo

 

TECHNICAL DATA ATLAS

Editors: PEDRO BANDEIRA (Coord.), PAULA MELÂNEO, LUCA MARTINUCCI

Associate Editors: CATARINA RAPOSO, NUNO CERA

Essay Authors: ANTÓNIO GUERREIRO, CATARINA RAPOSO, LUCA MARTINUCCI, MARIA MANUEL OLIVEIRA, NUNO CERA, NUNO DA LUZ, PAULA MELÂNEO, PEDRO BANDEIRA

Interviewees: AURORA CARAPINHA, JOÃO GOMES DA SILVA, JOÃO NUNES, LUÍS PAULO FARIA RIBEIRO

Architectural Works: MULTIPLE AUTHORS

Photography MULTIPLE AUTHORS

Graphic Design VIVÓEUSÉBIO

Translation and Revision MIGUEL CÔRTE-REAL

Publication and Revision CIRCO DE IDEIAS
MAGDA SEIFERT, PEDRO BAÍA, CATARINA MATOS, INÊS QUIAIOS

Editorial Assistant IVO POÇAS MARTINS

Specific Support MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF MATOSINHOS

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1st edition: October 2025