THE ROLE OF PUBLIC ART IN ‘LISBON 1994’: AN IMPROVEMENT TO THIS CITY’S FUTURE

Authors

  • Telmo Lopes

Keywords:

Lisbon 1994, Public Art, Ephemeral and Perennial, Centre and Outskirts

Abstract

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.

Published

2008-10-01

How to Cite

Lopes, Telmo. 2008. “THE ROLE OF PUBLIC ART IN ‘LISBON 1994’: AN IMPROVEMENT TO THIS CITY’S FUTURE”. on the w@terfront. Public Art.Urban Design.Civic Participation.Urban Regeneration, no. 11 (October):75-80. https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/waterfront/article/view/18899.