Carrilho da Graça: Lisbon

Revisiting Lisbon and the works that architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça created for the city, this book offers a certain way of lookingand acting. From a series of models and plans, it reveals a strategyfor analysing territory which gives meaning to the operations andforms of design. The territory of the city, recognized from the mainpoints, and the hinge and valley lines that characterize its originaltopography, shows how human trajectories and settlements appropriatednature in the construction of the city and how the architectural workcan be inscribed into that territorial plan. The book containscontributions by Marta Sequeira, Susana Rato, Emílio Tuñón, Diogo Seixas Lopes and photographs by Tiago Casanova.