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The museum was established on 29 December 2006 as Museo Nacional de Arquitectura y Urbanismo. The original idea was designed to have two seats: one in Salamanca dedicated to architecture, and another in Barcelona dedicated to urban planning; in addition to a Documentation Center.
Jorge Ferreira Chaves (22 February 1920 – 22 August 1981) was a Portuguese architect.. Some authors may refer to him as "Jorge Chaves" or simply "Chaves". He was one of the architects responsible, in the latter part of the 1940s, for the establishment of the Modern Movement in Portugal.
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A good example of a Portuguese colonial church from the era is the Church of the Divine Providence of São Caetano, 1639, India. The church, which was a mannerist-baroque crossover, was ordered to be built by Pedro da Silva, Viceroy of India, to demonstrate Portuguese wealth and the integration of the territory as an important Portuguese colony ...
Santa Maria da Feira Municipal Market, designed by Fernando Távora. To Eduardo Souto de Moura, "Távora is the father of the Porto School, but the great-grandfather of Europe. He is an historical and universal figure". [9] Fernando Távora entered ESBAP as an Architecture student in 1941, complementing it with a higher degree from 1945 onwards ...
Most of Cidade Velha's 500 buildings until the destruction of the French featured Renaissance and Mannerist architecture, it included the churches of São Roque, São Pedro, Monte Alverne, Nossa Senhora da Conceição, the chapel of Santa Luzia, and the church and hospital of Santa Casa de Misericórdia.
The Villa (Casa de Serralves) is a unique example of Art Deco architecture, and the Park won the “Henry Ford Prize for the Preservation of the Environment” in 1997. [ 6 ] The buildings of Serralves - Casa de Serralves, Park, Museum of Contemporary Art, Auditorium and Library - were jointly classified by the Portuguese State as a "Building ...
The Casa da Malhoa referencing the former owners: José Victor Branco Malhoa A view of the former house of Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves. In 1904, José Victor Branco Malhoa petitioned the municipal authority of Lisbon to construct a residence and atelier, based on a project by Manuel Joaquim Norte Júnior (1878–1962). [1]