7/31/2023 - 10/16/2023
The exhibition "Keeping It Modern: Beira Central Station,
Mozambique (1957-1966)" will be held in the Atrium of the Art Library of
the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, from July 31 to October 16.
The
exhibition, resulting from the Station's conservation and maintenance project,
funded by the Keeping It Modern program, an initiative of the Getty Foundation,
was coordinated by Professors Paulo Lourenço (EENG) and Elisiário Miranda
(EAAD), with the participation of Professor Maria Manuel Oliveira and Jorge
Santos (as a scholarship holder), and in partnership with the Eduardo Mondlane
University, Maputo, and the Mozambique Railways.
This
exhibition presents the conservation and maintenance project of Beira Central Station,
in Mozambique. Beira Central Station in Mozambique is not only an iconic
building of the country and the city, but also a landmark in the context of
railway history, particularly in Africa. Based on the language of the
International Modern Movement of the Post-World War II, this project by
architects Francisco José de Castro, João Garizo do Carmo and Paulo de Melo
Sampaio is considered one of the most important Portuguese engineering
buildings of the 20th century.
In the
context of the exhibitions on display in the Atrium of the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation Art Library and framed in projects funded by the Getty Foundation,
the aforementioned "Beira Central Station, Mozambique (1957-1966)"
and the exhibition "No Place is Desert. Piscina de Marés (1960-2021)",
the colloquium Keeping It Modern: Conservation and Heritage Management of the
Modern Movement will take place on September 21 at 2 pm in Auditorium 3 of the
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with free admission and live streaming at gulbenkian.pt/agenda/coloquio-keeping-it-modern.
The
colloquium aims to discuss central issues in the field of modern heritage
conservation and management, with the direct contribution of representatives
and members of prestigious institutions in this field such as the Getty
Foundation, the Le Corbusier Foundation, the World Monument Fund, Docomomo, the
ICOMOS International Scientific Committee of 20th Century Heritage (ISC20c), as
well as the Universities of Porto and Minho.
