The exhibition Double Void, by Paulo Catrica e Sebastiano Raimondo, featuring drawings by the architect Rui Mendes, will run until 18 April in Space Zero gallery, in Lisbon.

The exhibition results from the work carried out as part of the IN2PAST exploratory project “Filling a double void. A critical and mnemonic reading of the new town of Santo André 1971–2021”, led by Paulo Catrica (IHC – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST).

Este projeto pretende estimular uma revisão crítica e mnemónica da cidade de Vila Nova de Santo André através de um conjunto de iniciativas multidisciplinares, cruzando a história da matriz ideológica da arquitetura e do urbanismo com a história oral, a fotografia e a antropologia. Part of the Sines industrial project, devised by Marcelo Caetano’s government in the years leading up to ’25 de Abril’, it was largely carried out after the revolution, with construction suffering from constant setbacks and hesitations in terms of economic and political guidelines. A unique case in Portugal of an urban project for a new city, fifty years after the beginning of Santo André’s construction we are faced with the absence of any academic research able to promote a critical view and discussion of this work.