For 27 years, he devised four proposals for the construction of a Palace of the City to crown the top of Parque Eduardo VII. On the 50th anniversary of his death, this exhibition shows lesser-known aspects of these projects which, although they never came to fruition, reveal his evolution as an architect and the urbanistic thinking he developed about Alto do Parque Eduardo VII.
A municipal architect for a decade (1938-1947) and on his own after that, the author developed several projects that changed the face of the city and gave it modernity and monumentality that are still present today, such as the first version of the airport.
The urban and landscape interventions in Monsanto Forest Park and Campo Grande are two manifestations of a civic action that aimed to shape mentalities, transform social behaviour and force local decision-makers to plan the city.
This exhibition, featuring objects from the Lisbon Museum, the Lisbon Municipal Archive and the Gabinete de Estudos Olisiponenses [Olisiponense Studies Office], also highlights the constant relationship that existed between different architects and the never-realised projects for the extension of Avenida da Liberdade and the Palace of Justice.
In addition to the unrealised plan to extend the Pimenta Palace – a long-standing ambition of several generations of leaders of the Museum of the City and the current Museum of Lisbon – this exhibition will also provide an insight into Keil do Amaral's profound intervention for a Lisbon that is, after all, constantly changing.