O Espaço Exterior Privado na Arquitectura Doméstica em Portugal entre 1950-1970

• Autor(a) principal: Patrícia Isabel Martins da Rocha
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/149404
• topic: Artes; Arts

This essay intends to acknowledge and think about domestic architecture as it pertains to the idea that "housing is one of the preeminent aspects that reveal and answer to the structures in the society it belongs to".2 The study of single-family, individualized housing is particularly interesting considering the freedom that it enables the architect to experiment new space organization techniques, new materials and technologies, new ways of life. As it is such a vast research area, there was an urgent need to simplify it to a smaller research study sample. Therefore, this particular study focuses primarily in the private space outside a single-family house, in a determined time and space; more specifically in Portugal from 1950 to 1970. This time and space was chosen due to a previous research that was also made within the single-family realm. This subject - the train of thought of a singular type of architecture and a generation of architects - came to me, the author, as, browsing magazines, searching for specific articles pertaining to this period, curiosity took over me as I thought about and even, in some cases, visited different author houses, while, at the same time, I carried on an investigation about a particular architect: Maurício de Vasconcellos. The object of this study, "the private space outside a singlefamily house", was a very specific topic, based on the analysis of the work of the previously mentioned architect, Maurício de Vasconcellos, but taking a different path.