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L'Atalante

Casa Portuguesa
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Casa Portuguesa: modelos globais para casas locais

With the advent of modern age the House became the most meaningful matter of study in the development of Architecture, allowing a laboratorial inquiry concerning the application of ideas, concepts, and construction technologies. Due to the reduced scale and the constant evolution of its functional program, the House represents, for Architecture, a kind of prototype; providing a physical extension of theoretical manifestos, specially in the outcoming of the modern vanguards. What we demanded the twelve architecture authors was that they could use this prototype condition of the House as a possibility of experimentation and revision of models and concepts related to the contemporary habitat; having as work substance the Portuguese reality – Today…

A Casa Portuguesa is a project byAssociação L’Atalante to ExperimentaDesign05, curated by Pedro Machado Costa and Carlos Sant’Ana, with the support of Câmara Municipal da Moita and Grupo Orcisa, and its on exhibition at Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, between 17 September and 30 October 2005.