José Saramago’s “Blindness” and a Vision for Mental Healthcare: perspectives in the fields of Literature, Architecture, Philosophy, Politics and Economics [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction The Portuguese writer and Nobel prize winner José Saramago, is well-known for his sharp depiction and reflection of human condition. The recent events of the COVID pandemic juxtapose with his novel “Blindness” (1995) – original title ...
B. Jorge, J. Carvalho
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From form to words: Knowledge transfer vehicles in late-20th-century Portuguese modern architecture
, 2021 openaire +3 more sources
The Cognitive Methodology of the Porto School: Foundation and Evolution to the Present Day [PDF]
Athens Journal of Architecture, 2015 As a consequence of the international impact of the work of Álvaro Siza Vieira (Pritzker winner in 1992) and Eduardo Souto Moura (Pritzker winner in 2011), the so-called Porto School has become a global phenomenon.
Eduardo Fernandes
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How Brazil’s Modern Architecture Revolution impacted Europe and Africa
Histories of Postwar Architecture, 2020 After WWII, magazines turned to fundamental sources for the dissemination of the modern avant-garde project. In this context, the discovery of modern Brazilian architecture through the media by the younger generation of Portuguese architects had enormous
Ana Cristina Dos Santos Tostões
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“Urbanistic Architecture” according to Raul Lino
Enquiry: The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research, 2020 Over a period of nearly one hundred years, Raul Lino (1879-1974) experienced the profound political, social and economic changes that marked the twentieth century in Portugal.
Paulo Manta Pereira
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Rural housing as field of modernist experiences [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2019 The Portuguese proposal to CIAM X (Dubrovnik 1956) wasfocused on the issue of rural planning. A new village was established among a set of existing ones, working as a structural core.
Cardoso Alexandra +3 more
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ALFRED-DONAT AGACHE URBAN PROPOSAL FOR COSTA DO SOL. FROM THE TERRITORY TO THE CITY. [PDF]
, 2013 This paper reviews the development of Costa do Sol, as planned by architect urbanist Alfred-Donat Agache, for Lisbon Region in Portugal. The Plano Expansão Região Oeste de Lisboa (1934-1936) prepared by Agache and requested by Portuguese Minister of ...
André, Paula +2 more
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Nuno Portas, Hestnes Ferreira, Conceição Silva: Sobressaltos em Lisboa, anos 1960
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2010 In the 1960s Portuguese architecture became involved in various conflicting experiments. Nuno Portas, Hestnes Ferreira and Conceição Silva demonstrated that the architectural project did not result from doctrine, and that architectural culture was ...
Jorge Figueira
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When Modern Housing Built Optimistic Suburbia: A Comparative Analysis Between Lisbon and Luanda
Urban Planning, 2022 Throughout the 1960s, the urban peripheries in several Portuguese colonial cities embarked on a profound process of transformation. With different urban histories and distant geographical contexts, Lisbon and Luanda were united by urban planning and ...
Inês Rodrigues
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Women Architects in Portugal: Working in Colonial Africa before the Carnation Revolution (1950–1974)
Arts, 2020 How did women architects shape a modern world in the late period of Portuguese colonial Africa, just before the Carnation Revolution? The specific role of women in Portugal working in colonial African architectural culture has now started to be addressed
Ana Vaz Milheiro, Filipa Fiúza
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