Lisbon Pre 1755 Earthquake

Video – International Workshop Virtual Historic Cities: reinventing urban research

Lisbon, May 21, 2010 Workshop organized in the scope of the City and Spectacle: a vision of pre-earthquake Lisbon project, a virtual recreation of the city of Lisbon before the 1755 earthquake, using Second Life® technology. A pioneer project in Portugal, it is being developed by the Centre for History of Art and Artistic Research of the [...]

“City and Spectacle” presentation to the workshop “Virtual Historic Cities: reinventing urban research” (May 2010)

International Workshop “Virtual historic cities: reinventing urban research”

Workshop organizado no âmbito do projecto Cidade e Espectáculo: uma visão da Lisboa pré-terramoto (City and Spectacle: a vision of pre-earthquake Lisbon), uma recriação virtual, a partir da plataforma de mundos virtuais Second Life®, da memória da Lisboa destruída pelo terramoto de 1 de Novembro de 1755. Projecto pioneiro em Portugal, resulta de uma colaboração [...]

City and Spectacle: A Vision of Pre-Earthquake Lisbon (Updated for VMSS 2009)

For this next phase of the project, the virtual reconstruction of the eastern side of the Lisbon’s Royal Courtyard (Terreiro do Paço) just before it was destroyed by the 1755 earthquake was updated, as new research corrected the earlier sketches. The façades of the Opera House were redone, as well as the Palace Gardens. The [...]

Pátio das Arcas – City and Performing Art. Spaces and Places for Theatre in Baroque Lisbon

Presented at Congresso Internacional  LA CULTURA DEL BARROCO ESPANOL E IBEROAMERICANO Y SU CONTEXTO EUROPEO, Instituto de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos de la Universidad de Varsóvia, Warsaw, Poland, September 2009, by Maria Alexandra Trindade Gago da Câmara (Universidade Aberta/CHAIA – Universidade de Évora).

O terramoto e a génese da consciência de património em Portugal | The earthquake and the origins of the heritage conscience in Portugal

Click here to download a PDF with this document (text in Portuguese only).

The Lisbon earthquake of 1755: the catastrophe and its European repercussions

Published in “The Economia Global e Gestão (Global Economics and Management Review), Lisboa, vol. 10 (2004), p. 79-99. This paper is based on a section of the author’s PhD thesis: A Place for Lisbon in Eighteenth Century Europe: Lisbon, London and Edinburgh a town-planning comparative study (PhD in Architecture, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University [...]

Cidade, Quotidiano e Espectáculo. Lugares de representação teatral na Lisboa dos Séculos XVII e XVIII | City, Daily Life and Spectacle. Theatre performance sites in 17th and 18th century Lisbon

(text in Portuguese only) PROPÓSITOS Quando pretendemos estudar a abordar a prática da História do Teatro em Portugal, sabemos que poucos séculos existiram como os séculos XVII e XVIII onde proliferaram tantos elementos documentais relativos ao espectáculo e simultaneamente tão eloquentes quanto à noção globalizante de festa que o espectáculo barroco assumiu um pouco por toda a Europa e, [...]