THE ROLE OF PUBLIC ART IN ‘LISBON 1994’: AN IMPROVEMENT TO THIS CITY’S FUTURE
On the [email protected]. 2008;0(11):75-80
LCC Subject Category: Fine Arts
Country of publisher: Spain
Language of fulltext: Catalan; Valencian, French, Portuguese, English, Spanish; Castilian, Italian
Full-text formats available: PDF
AUTHORS
Telmo Lopes
("M.A. in Urban Design, Universitat de Barcelona. Ph.D. student of the program - Public Space and Urban Regeneration: Art and Society, University of Barcelona")
EDITORIAL INFORMATION
Time From Submission to Publication: 14 weeks
Abstract | Full Text
The capital city of Portugal, Lisbon - a coastal city with a population of around 540000 people – was nominated as European Capital of Culture in 1994. This study describes how Public Art projects were included in those cultural master plans and how they affected their environment, from the cultural event to the physical identity that remained there. This study relates the impact of Public Art in Urban Design under a reflexive point of view which expresses future connections of this theme with the city, and supply with documents Lisbon’s Public Art of 1994, mainly through the influence of the event of Lisbon European Capital of Culture.