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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.
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