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Beholding a ‘Brave New World’: Sir Walter Raleigh’s The Discovery of Guiana and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest [PDF]
, 2015 During the 15th and 16th centuries, the idea of the world was broadened on an unprecendented scale. The Portuguese and the Spaniards dominated a first stage in the maritime expansion and even divided the planet into two halves. Those times were primarily
Relvas, Maria de Jesus
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African-European contacts in the Kongo Kingdom (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries): new archaeological insights from Ngongo Mbata (Lower Congo, DRC) [PDF]
, 2015 Ngongo Mbata, the main and most affluent center of the Kongo kingdom’s Mbata province in the 17th century, is well known from the historical sources, but virtually unexplored in archaeological publications.
Bostoen, Koen +7 more
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ARCHITECTURE, CERAMICS AND FRAMES. THREE CASE STUDIES IN THE WORK OF JORGE BARRADAS
Art is on, 2016 Throughout the history of the azulejo (a Portuguese form of tin-glazed ceramic tile), frames have played a decisive role in the articulation of this element with its architectural support.
Ana Almeida
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Revista de História da Sociedade e da CulturaThis article focuses on the short story “A abóbada (1401)” (The vault [1401]) by the Portuguese author Alexandre Herculano with a view to analyse the origin and development of a narrative that established national and international debates on the ...
Pedro Redol
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Aspects of the civil architecture of the nineteenth century in São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil
Conservar Património, 2012 The city of São Luís, capital of Maranhão, located in northeastern Brazil, has an impressive collection of civil architecture, reminiscent of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Margareth Gomes de Figueiredo +2 more
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Fearless Forms: The Fluid Creations of Joaquim Cardozo
Histories of Postwar Architecture, 2017 Joaquim Cardozo – the structural engineer for Oscar Niemeyer’s (1907-2012) most audacious concrete buildings – is better known for his contribution to Brazilian literature than for his works as an engineer.
Andre Tavares
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The Sequel, Building reuse in Lisbon: the case of Modern Cinema Theatres [1904-1957
Joelho, 2015 As a consequence of technical evolution, consumerism and mobility, a number of buildings were abandoned despite their location, function or building condition.
Joana Gouveia Alves, Ana Tostões
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Histories of Postwar ArchitectureThis article seeks to explore the importance of the urban project for the Central Zone of Aveiro both from the perspective of the work of Fernando Távora and also as a Portuguese example of the concepts of the Revision of the Modern Movement as they were
Fernanda Vierno de Moura
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Bulletin KNOB, 2014 The notion of a ‘homogeneity of style’ in the historiography of military architecture carries the risk that those forms that are not directly traceable in modern historiography are too easily dismissed as out of bound or simply as the results of external
Daan Lavies
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Brazilian Portuguese Words for Design [PDF]
, 2009 Brazilian Portuguese is the Portuguese spoken in Brazil, which has slight differences from the Portuguese spoken in Portugal. One may try to understand such differences by comparing them with the dissimilarities between the American English and the ...
Cassidy, Tracy Diane, Gies, Sheila
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