In this conversation, João Pinharanda and Ricardo Carvalho walk through the spaces of the exhibition Pedro Casqueiro – Detour, explaining how it is organised and the impact of this configuration on the visitor's experience. João Pinharanda explains the curatorial decisions that guide the route and which help create meaning in the works on display. Ricardo Carvalho adds an architectural perspective, showing how elements such as light, scale and form — both in the compositions of the paintings and drawings and in the way we move around the space — influence the way we see and interpret the exhibition. The exchange of ideas between the two highlights the importance of thinking about exhibitions as an ecosystem where curatorship and architecture operate together, bringing to light the processes that structure contemporary creation and opening up new ways of understanding what we see and how we inhabit a space. 

This is the first initiative in the cycle ‘Conversations in Movement: art and other forms of knowledge,’ a space for encounter between art and other territories of knowledge, inviting artists, curators, architects, and thinkers to reflect on how contemporary creation dialogues with culture, science, philosophy, and everyday life.

In this cycle, artistic practice is understood as an expanded field of knowledge, capable of generating new ways of reading the world and provoking shifts in the way we perceive and inhabit it. In an exercise in listening and shared thinking, dialogue becomes the driving force behind discovery — a space in motion where ideas circulate, intersect, and transform

USEFUL INFORMATION 

Date: 07/02
Time: 17.00 - 18.00

Target: General Public, students and specialists

Capacity: 30 
Language: PT
Meeting point: MAAT Central ticket office

Price: Museum admission ticket and all applicable discounts

• Access is subject to capacity, so those who wish to attend must collect a wristband from the museum’s ticket office (MAAT Central).
• Wristbands can be collected 1h30 hours before the event. 
• MAAT Friends benefit from free entry to the museum, but must also collect a wristband

BIOGRAPHY

Ricardo Carvalho has a degree in Architecture (FA UTL 1995) and a PhD in Architecture from the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon (IST UL 2012). He is the founder of the Ricardo Carvalho Arquitectos & Associados studio, based in Lisbon. He is a Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, Da/UAL, and a visiting professor at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in Germany, Brazil, Spain, and Italy. 
He has published several books, including ‘A Cidade Social’ (Tinta da China 2016), ‘Time is the Raw Material’ (IUAV 2017), ‘Work Situation Process’ (A+A 2021), ‘Todas as Direcções’ (Note 2022), and ‘Arquitectura Público Cidade’ (Tinta da China 2024), and writes regularly about architecture. In 2025, AMAG magazine dedicated an entire single issue to his work. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London; Ozone Gallery, Tokyo; the Nipponbashi Gallery, Osaka; LIGA, Mexico City; MAAT and Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon; and the Venice Architecture Biennale, among others.

Ricardo Carvalho was nominated for the EU Mies van der Rohe Architecture Prize in 2015 and 2022 and for the Swiss Architectural Prize in 2020. He was awarded the AICA Architecture Prize 2022.