''Poder Arquitectura'' was Casa da Arquitectura – Portuguese Centre for Architecture’s inaugural exhibition. Organised by the architects Jorge Carvalho, Pedro Bandeira and Ricardo Carvalho, the exhibition occupied the approximately 800 square meters of the Exhibition Aisle with a proposal of reflection around eight powers that align, intersect, inflect and diverge from each other.
According to the curators, ''the relation between Power and Architecture is fundamental to question how contemporary society and architecture work together. Architecture is not just the expression of a single power. It reflects, and works from, various powers. We have therefore decided to isolate those powers who help clarify this complex cartography. Thus we have collective, regulatory, technological, economic, domestic, cultural, media and ritual powers. In the long struggle between Man and Nature, Culture and Technology, these powers exerted influences of variable intensity in the production of architectural artifacts and in the design of the city and the territory. Today, faced with a political impotence that excuses and validates decisions that harm the public good and the meaning of communities, there seems to be room for a new reflection on power'', as can be read in the opening text of the book that accompanied the Exhibition, a co-edition between Casa da Arquitectura and the Swiss publisher Lars Müller.
Open to the public from November 18, 2017 to March 18, 2018, in Casa’s Exhibition Aisle, “Poder Arquitectura” brought together photographs, models, books, drawings, videos, magazines, postcards and other materials on around a hundred architectural projects built around the world.

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