The Longest Museum in the World

The Longest Museum in the World is a book that opens up a new way of seeing and thinking about Estrada Nacional 2, with photographs by Álvaro Domingues, Duarte Belo, Valter Vinagre, Daniel Malhão, Nuno Cera, Paulo Catrica.

"The greatest narrative we can imagine. N2 is a guiding thread, a thread for those who follow it. This movement, or displacement is translated into a speech, an idea or a narrative. A path of images that move in the imagination, a gesture , an 800km topographic profile of the country from north to south, from Chaves to Faro." Pedro Campos Costa

EN2 © Álvaro Domingues

EN2 © Duarte Belo

“N2 is a guiding thread, a thread for those who walk along it. This movement, or displacement, translates into a discourse, an idea or a narrative. A journey of images that move in the imagination, a gesture, an 800km topographical profile of the country from North to South, from Chaves to Faro. This mark on the territory is an Ariadne's Thread, which does not seek a single solution, does not seek to be scientific like trial and error. A thread that unravels the labyrinth full of clues for discovering new spaces and ideas.
Today it is a great repository of many possibilities and perspectives for reading the territory and, consequently, our identity.”
Pedro Campos Costa

EN2 © Valter Vinagre

EN2 © Daniel Malhão

“Along the 739.26 km of road, we propose a networked exhibition device, which transcends the idea of a traditional museum, made of myriametric landmarks in the open and immersed in the landscape. Without this relationship of openness to the landscape, the sense and significance of the project disappears, it is completely lost. The scale of magnitude with which we christened the project - the longest museum in the world - could not be further from an idea of narrative or power. Rather, we intend to express a desire, a unity, for open relations and commitment between community and landscape: the unity of the open sky.”
Eduardo Costa Pinto

EN2 © Nuno Cera

EN2 © Paulo Catrica

The longest museum in the world gave its name to the exhibition at the Antechamber Gallery, where the eighty photographs included in the book, a model of the territories through which the road is built and the first prototype of the book were displayed.

Fotografia do livro © Tiago Casanova

Fotografia do livro © Tiago Casanova

Fotografia do livro © Tiago Casanova

Exposição na Galeria Antecâmara © Tiago Casanova

This book results from the collective effort of the architects Pedro Campos Costa and Eduardo Costa Pinto, in the narrative and project, and Álvaro Domingues, Duarte Belo, Valter Vinagre, Daniel Malhão, Nuno Cera, Paulo Catrica, authors of the photographs of the road and its territories.

In order for the publication of the book to be economically viable, we decided to launch this crowdfunding campaign. The edition will have the following features:

- Format: 16.5 cm x 22.5 cm

- 1x foldout with photographs + 104 pages

- 4/4 color printing on Munken Lynx paper 150 grs

- Hardcover, white fabric

- 500 copies

- RRP: 40 EUROS

About the author

Pedro Campos Costa Degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, since 2007
founding partner and manager of Campos Costa Arquitetos, where he develops a multidisciplinary practice of research, design and construction. He was also editor of the magazine D´Ars, based in Milan between 2000 and 2009, Member of the Editorial Board and Editorial of the Editorial team of JA | 2012-14. In 2014, he was Portuguese curator at the 14th International and Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, with the project “Homeland. News from Portugal“. Winner of several awards such as the FAD Award in 2015, with the
Hotel Ozadi in Tavira, “A.prize 2012 Exposynergy” by the Milan Triennale, “Gyeonggi International Ceramix Biennale” in South Korea, “Valmor Prize” by the Lisbon City Council, with the Oceanário de Lisboa Extension. He is currently an Assistant Professor
guest at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, and has been a speaker at several universities around the world.

Eduardo Costa Pinto is a landscape architect and independent researcher. Partner of the GETOUT Arquitetura Paisagista atelier, he is also curator and co-author of the projects "Sete Círculos / Seven Circles", "The Longest Museum in the World" with the architect Pedro Campos Costa. He began his higher studies in Environmental Engineering , Technical University of Lisbon. Degree in Landscape Architecture from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia – UL. His professional activity began in 2007 and since then he has collaborated with several ateliers in Portugal and Italy, including Margem – Arquitetura Paisagista, DRECTA Urban Management, PROAP, Promontorio Arquitetos, Campos Costa Arquitetos and GETOUT Landscape Architecture. As a result of these collaborations, participation in the following projects stands out: Antwerp Waterfront, Forte Fenestrelle, Portimão Urban Park, Alcácer do Sal riverfront or the Stadium Municipal de Loulé. With the Milan Architecture Center (ACMA) he has participated, as a tutor, in several seminars and workshops since 2009. In co-authorship with Pedro Campos Costa, he carried out the project “Seven Circles”. He has published several articles, and carried out several communications at different Universities, on topics such as “Dynamic Cities”, “Circular Landscapes”, “Green Infrastructure” or the “Logic of Limits”.

Budget and due dates

Edition budget:

- Total: 10500 euros

Calendar:

- Campaign start: 13 May 2023

- End of campaign: 12 June 2023

- Book launch: December 2023

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