The Exhibition ‘No place like - 4 houses, 4 films’ by Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, Ricardo Bak Gordon, João Luís Carrilho da Graça and Álvaro Siza Vieira will open next 20th of January, by 8h30 P.M, at Guido Nardi exhibition area, Polytechnic Institute of Milan (Spazio Espositivo Guido Nardi, Politecnico di Milano), Italy.

Produced and organised by the Directorate-General for the Arts of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture and by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, this show, which represented Portugal in 2010 at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, is now presented at the Meeting ‘Architecture, Urbanism, Photography: Conversations between Italy and Portugal’, commissioned by Maddalena d'Alfonso and supported by the Portuguese Embassy in Rome.
The meeting gathers renowned personalities from both countries namely, for the Portuguese participation, Nuno Portas, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, João Nunes, Manuel Aires Mateus and Eduardo Souto de Moura.

Commissioned by Julia Albani, José Mateus, Rita Palma e Delfim Sardo, "No place like - 4 houses, 4 films" is a collective, trans-generational show of Portuguese contemporary architecture, focusing on the issue of housing along the lines suggested by Kazuyo Sejima for the 2010 Venice Biennial Architecture that run from 29th August till 21st November under the theme "People meet in architecture". In parallel with the presentation of architecture projects, the exhibition also brings together four fictional films of the visual artists Filipa César, João Onofre, Julião Sarmento and João Salaviza, which disclose the relationship between these houses and the context in which they exist.

The opening of ‘No Place Like...’ next 20th January in Milan closes the meeting ‘Architecture, Urbanism, Photography: Conversations between Italy and Portugal’, which began the 20th November 2010 with the debate on ‘Relationships between Portugal and Italy’, with Manuel Salgado and Vittorio Gregotti and moderated by Marco Introini, following the intervention of the Portuguese Ambassador in Rome, Fernando d’Oliveira Neves, the President of the Faculty of Architecture and Society, Piercarlo Palermo, and the Director of the Architecture Department of Milan DiAP, Patrizia Gabellini.

The 20th January 2011, Nuno Portas and Bernardo Secchi will participate at a session beginning at 10 A.M. under the theme ‘In European Cities’, following the interventions of the Portuguese cultural attaché in Rome, Paulo Cunha e Silva, and those of Piercarlo Palermo and Patrizia Gabellini. Thereafter, a panel for the Piranesi Award will take place with the participation of architects João Luís Carrilho da Graça, Luca Basso Peressut and Pier Federico Caliari. From 2: 30 P.M., ‘Projecting in Europe’ will be the topic for a discussion held by Manuel Aires Mateus, Giuseppe Marinoni and João Nunes, moderated by Giovanni Chiaramonte and presented by Carlos Machado e Moura. ‘About Architecture and Photography’ will be the topic of the last panel, composed by Eduardo Souto de Moura and Gabriele Basilico, and presented by Federico Bucci.

The presentation of ‘No Place Like...’ at the Polytechnic Institute of Milan marks the beginning of the exhibition itinerancy, which returns in May to Portugal to be shown at the Fine Arts School, in Coimbra and, in May, at ‘Palácio das Artes’, in Porto.