Algarve Building

Algarve Building
Author: Ricardo Agarez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2016-06-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317182626

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 President’s Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in 2013, Algarve Building challenges the conventional inclusion of Portuguese modern architecture in ‘Critical Regionalism’ narratives. A fine-grain reconstruction of the debates and cultures at play locally exposes the extra-architectural and widely participated antecedents of the much-celebrated mid-century shift towards the regional. Uncelebrated architects and a cast of other players (clients, officials, engineers and builders) contributed to maturing a regional strand of modern architecture that, more than being the heroic outcome of a hard-fought ‘battle’ by engaged designers against a conservative establishment, became truly popular in the Algarve. Algarve Building shows, more broadly, what the processes that have been appropriated by the canon of architectural history and theory – such as the presence of folk traditions and regional variation in learned architecture – stand to gain when observed in local everyday practices. The grand narratives and petites histoires of architecture can be enriched, questioned, revised and confirmed by an unprejudiced return to its facts and sources – the buildings, the documents, the discourses, the agents and the archives.

Ten Houses

Ten Houses
Author: Eduardo Souto de Moura
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1998
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Baedeker's Algarve

Baedeker's Algarve
Author: Baedeker Guides Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780749529611

Baedeker guides offer today's visitor a tremendous depth and reliability of information. An A to Z of practical information, with hotels, restaurants and all the essentials.

Algarve

Algarve
Author: Neil Schlecht
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2001
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9782831576848

This guide is packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to know to get the most from your visit. Visit glorious churches, beautiful beaches or must-see attractions such as Museu Arqueologico Infante Dom Henrique or Ponta da Piedade. For active pursuits Algarve offers golfing, windsurfing, sailing and more. You'll find all this plus a guide to the best food, drink, hotels and shopping as well as language and culture notes.

PEB Exchange

PEB Exchange
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2003
Genre: School buildings
ISBN:

Centennial Exposition Described and Illustrated

Centennial Exposition Described and Illustrated
Author: J. S. Ingram
Publisher: Philadelphia ; Springfield, Mass., [etc.] : Hubbard Bros.
Total Pages: 686
Release: 1878
Genre: Centennial Exhibition
ISBN:

Including history of the Centennial from inception to final closing ceremonies, description of the principal buildings, foreign pavilions, booths and state buildings, with their interesting displays, exhibits of resources and products of the nations of the world; the most ingenious devices in Machinery Hall, woman's work in Woman's Pavilion, mineralogical, archaeological and geological collections from all states of the Union, the wonders of the Swiss watch department, the Centennial live stock exhibition, memorial parades and anniversaries of various orders, great state days, awards to exhibitors foreign and American, and numerous other subjects showing the magnitude and character of the New World's Fair, and illustrating the best achievements of human genius, industry and skill from all lands and all peoples.