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Architectural Guide – The best and most important rehabilitation works in Portugal
This guide aims to present the best and most important rehabilitation works in Portugal in the post 25th of April Revolution period (1974-2011).
Traço Alternativo Arquitectos Associados, is responsible for the selection, as well as, the treatment and organization of content.
As with the previous publications, this one will also be bilingual (Portuguese/English), with a “travel guide” format (it aims to be a practical and easy to use tool, to elaborate travel plans according to the users interest and schedule) organized by districts (in alphabetical order). Each work will be accompanied with information that will contextualize it in time and space (small descriptive text, authors, date of project initiation and work conclusion, type of visit, photographs, address and precise location through GPS coordinates.
We are at the moment contacting architectural firms to obtain information of eventual rehabilitation works that they may have designed or that are in completion phase, which we may not yet know of. The information about the works should contemplate the before mentioned elements (small descriptive text, authors, date of project initiation and work conclusion, type of visit, photographs, address and precise location through GPS coordinates.
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Architectural Guide – South and Islands of Portugal
In 2011 the Architectural Guide South and Islands of Portugal was published.
It includes 288 works (built between 1974-2010), GPS coordinates and maps.
Traço Alternativo Arquitectos Associados, is responsible for the selection, as well as, the treatment and organization of content.
The Guide´s presentation text was written by Architect Álvaro Siza Vieira.
The most awarded and prestigious Portuguese architect affirms that: “The publication of a Guide to Contemporary Architecture in Portugal is of evident usefulness. (...) The first volume, already published, refers to the north and centre of the country, illustrating through maps, photographs and texts, a significant selection of works built since 1974. (...) I can personally foresee the interest the publication of this Guide will arouse. (...) The demand for Architectural Guides, not only by architects, seems to accompany the habit and generalized joy of travelling.”
It is a bilingual publication (Portuguese / English) with a “travel guide” format that promotes the work of a wide scope of architects, including most of the works by the two Portuguese winners of the Pritzker Prize – Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto Moura, built in the geographical area covered by this Guide.
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Architectural Guide – North and Centre of Portugal
In 2010 the Architectural Guide North and Centre of Portugal was published.
It includes 219 works (built between 1974-2010), GPS coordinates and maps.
Traço Alternativo Arquitectos Associados, is responsible for the selection, as well as, the treatment and organization of content.
The Guide´s presentation text was written by Architect Álvaro Siza Vieira.
The most awarded and prestigious Portuguese architect affirms that: “The publication of a Guide to Contemporary Architecture in Portugal is of evident usefulness. (...) I can personally foresee the interest the publication of this Guide will arouse. (...) The demand for Architectural Guides, not only by architects, seems to accompany the habit and generalized joy of travelling.”
It is a bilingual publication (Portuguese / English) with a “travel guide” format that promotes the work of a wide scope of architects, including most of the works by the two Portuguese winners of the Pritzker Prize – Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto Moura, built in the geographical area covered by this Guide.
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