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Algarve Building: Modernism, Regionalism and Architecture in the South of Portugal, 1925-1965
Dr. Ricardo Agarez
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Hardback. Focusing on the design and building practices developed in the Portuguese region of the Algarve over four decades, from Modern Movement influence to the eve of mass-tourism development, this book looks at three tropes of twentieth-century architecture - modernism, regionalism and popular building traditions commonly known as 'vernacular'. Num Pages: 398 pages, 199 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 3JJ; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 183 x 253 x 27. Weight in Grams: 924.
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 architecture culture - converged in the region's building identity construct and, often the subject of strictly metropolitan elaborations, they are examined here from a peripheral standpoint instead. Drawing on work that won the Royal Institute of British Architects ... Read more
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 architecture culture - converged in the region's building identity construct and, often the subject of strictly metropolitan elaborations, they are examined here from a peripheral standpoint instead. Drawing on work that won the Royal Institute of British Architects ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
398
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472456847
SKU
V9781472456847
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About Dr. Ricardo Agarez
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 ... Read more
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