1st Edition
Algarve Building Modernism, Regionalism and Architecture in the South of Portugal, 1925-1965
By Ricardo Agarez
Copyright 2016
398 Pages
by
Routledge
398 Pages
by
Routledge
398 Pages
by
Routledge
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Foreword by Adrian Forty.
The Algarve is not only Portugal’s foremost tourism region. Uniquely Mediterranean in an Atlantic country, its building customs have long been markers of historical and cultural specificity, attracting both picturesque driven conservatives and modernists seeking their lineage. Modernism, regionalism and the ‘vernacular’ – three essential tropes of twentieth-century... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 From the Centre; Chapter 1 Regional Formulae on Vernacular Material; Chapter 2 Architects on the Algarvian Identity; Part 2 From the Region; Chapter 3 Modernism and Vernacular in a Negotiated Identity; Chapter 4 ‘Miracle’ in Faro; Chapter 5 Modernist Regionalism; Chapter 6 The Stock and the Graft;
Biography
Ricardo Agarez is an architect and architectural historian trained in Lisbon and London. He has specialised in the buildings and cities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, having published widely on national and regional identities, knowledge dissemination and circulation phenomena, housing and public architecture and the architectural culture in bureaucracy. Ricardo currently lives and works between Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
