The objective of the 4 week workshop in Lisbon “focuses on open research questions like historical urban fabric, heritage transformation, tourism developments or new perspectives for industrial areas out of unction, modular settlements in state of repair, devastated landscapes and lost spaces. Moving into the future, all European metropolitan areas must rethink neglected districts in the contexts of architectural history and social dynamics.”
The Oxford dictionary claims that the origin of the word “Atlas” started in the late 16th century: “Late 16th century (originally denoting a person who supported a great burden): via Latin from Greek Atlas, the Titan of Greek mythology who supported the heavens and whose picture appeared at the front of early atlases.” This explanation also clarifies the architectural meaning of the word “atlas”, which is “a stone carving of a male figure, used as a column to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building.”
