This article intends to show the relevance of the South in the architectural universe of Raúl Hestnes Ferreira. The text is divided into three parts: the first deals with the family environment and the neorealist approach followed by his father, José Gomes Ferreira…
Asplund was neither the last nor the first Nordic architect to travel to the South. Indeed, the territories and the different cultures that have existed in the Mediterranean – whether in the Italian peninsula or in Greece, including North Africa…
This paper focuses on the rise of literary Modernism in Argentina, upon publication of the “wall journal”, which its founder, Jorge Luís Borges, named Prisma and which the Argentinian writer…
The urbanization intensification process of the last decades is well-known, as well as its asymmetry. However, looking at generalized urbanization is often confused with a generalized look at urbanization…
The political and economic scenario of the new millennium involved a critical discourse on architecture. After the affluent 1990s, a time when the European project became more consolidated, came a time of instability…
The word “roça” originally means “cut scrub”, “cut vegetation to create a clearing” or “field whose scrub was cut”. However, there is no clear explanation as to why this term was chosen to name the fields of São Tomé and Príncipe…
Architecture in Angola and Mozambique in the 1950s and 1960s may be interpreted in terms of the dissemination and reception of the Modernist architectural models…
Reception and interpretation of architecture from the Modernist Movement today involves its physical, conceptual and identity preservation…
The book “City and Port: Transformation of Port Cities – London, Barcelona, New York and Rotterdam”, by Han Meyer, was published in 1999…
Published by Lisbon City Hall (CML), the book Evolução das formas de habitação plurifamiliar na cidade de Lisboa (Changes in multi-family housing in the city of Lisbon), by Nuno Teotónio Pereira…
