Portugal
Portfolio: Ana Baptista, Colectivo Mel
André TavaresAs they grant a new lease of life to Porto’s crumbling structures, Colectivo Mel mount small acts of resistance and help preserve the city’s social ...
Remote control: Álvaro Siza in South Korea
Philip ChristouAlthough sometimes thousands of miles from his studio in Porto, the buildings of Álvaro Siza outside Portugal are intrinsically moulded by the spatial and social condit...
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Essays about Portugal
Pushed to the periphery: Lisbon’s rehousing policies lose the life of the neighbourhoods they demolish
Ana Naomi de Sousa and António Brito GuterresThe demolition and replacement of Lisbon’s bairros de barracas ignores their complex history and reality
Airbnb machine: Fala Atelier and the holiday rental phenomenon
Filipe Magalhães and Lera SamovichAs investors attempt to rebrand cities for tourists, Porto-based Fala turn their repetitive brief into playful residential conversions
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Fernando Távora (1923–2005)
William JR CurtisAs history unfolds, unexpected connections appear between the recent and the more distant past. Works which were once discussed as central retreat into the background, while o...