This exhibition marks the tenth anniversary of Álvaro Siza’s and Eduardo Souto de Moura’s International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture and their rehabilitation of the Municipal Museum Abade Pedrosa. Our title is adapted from the evocative term ‘architecture defrosted’ that the art historian Hubert Damisch* used to account for the way in which photography alters our relationship to architecture. He was countering the idea that architecture is merely frozen music.Photography introduces time into our relationship with architecture and thereby defrosts or unfreezes architecture. (...)