Cartoon representations of construction sites, a report on labour conditions and pioneering materials feature in an exhibition focusing on the development of the building site at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
The exhibition titled Building Site and curated by André Tavares focuses on the often unseen endeavours involved in producing architecture.
The show, which is being held in the galleries of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, looks at how factors like technological innovation and economy have affected the construction site ? and influence it in turn as architecture.

"We have to escape the idea that the building site is a dirty place," said Tavares during the opening of the exhibition. "It's the place that we need the most architectural reasoning." "Through various historical examples, this exhibition focuses on the processes that affect architectural forms in the decisive moment of their material construction."
"Enabling reflections on issues that building sites reveal, it addresses the changes in contemporary building sites, the challenges they ace and the impact they have on the practice of architecture," he added.
Building Site is one of three primary exhibitions that are part of this year's Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which is titled The Form of Form. The city-wide architecture festival opened on 5 October and continues until 12 December 2016. Its programme also features a pavilion designed by Johnston...