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Algarve building : modernism, regionalism and architecture in the south of Portugal, 1925-1965 / Ricardo Agarez

Author:
Agarez, Ricardo Costa, 1972-
Published:
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Physical Description:
xxviii, 369 pages ; 26 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I FROM THE CENTRE -- 1.Regional Formulae on Vernacular Material: Stereotyping the Algarve -- `The Smallest Kingdom' in Literature, Ethnography and Human Geography -- `Exotic, Beautiful, Oddly Modernist'. Early Travelogues of the Algarve -- 2.Architects on the Algarvian Identity: Permanence and Change -- Raul Lino and the `Characteristic Smallness of Moorish Things' -- `Modernist' Vernacular -- The Third Way to Algarvian Identity -- The Algarve at the 1940 `Mundo Portugues' Exposition in Lisbon -- The Algarve Pousada, a Country Home in Almond-blossom Fields -- `Only Just Found, Not Yet Lost'. The Algarve on the Edge of Mass Tourism -- Revising the Algarve Stereotype in the `Survey of Portuguese Regional Architecture' -- pt. II FROM THE REGION -- 3.Modernism and Vernacular in a Negotiated Identity: The Buildings of Olhao, 1916--1966 -- The Codification of Vernacular in Everyday Building -- Models for a Locally Sourced Modernism: The First Low-budget Housing Schemes in Olhao -- Conflicting Views on Vernacular: The 1944 Master Plan and its Consequences -- 4.`Miracle' in Faro: Towards a `New Eclecticism' in the South of Portugal, c.1950 -- The `Miracle in Louie [Faro]' House, a Symbol in the `Battle of Modern Architecture' -- Conservative Regionalism -- The Dissemination Years, 1943--1952 -- 5.Modernist Regionalism: From Alternative to Establishment, 1952--1966 -- Infiltrating Conservative Regionalism: Between Costa's First Works and Oliveira's Last -- Establishing Modernist Regionalism: Gomes da Costa and his Clients -- Modernism Accelerated: The Engineers' Role and the Construction Industry -- The Stock and the Graft. Notes on Modern Architecture, Regionalism and Regional Identity.
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ISBN:
9781472456847 (hardback ; alk. paper)
147245684X (hardback ; alk. paper)
Note:
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University College, London, 2013) under the title: Regionalism, modernism and vernacular tradition in the architecture of Algarve, Portugal, 1925-1965.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-356) and index.
Source of Acquisition:
Purchased with funds from the The Hastings Libraries Endowment; 2016
Endowment Note:
The Hastings Libraries Endowment
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