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Faculdade de Economia do Porto – Viana de Lima
A groundbreaking work of modernity in Porto, the FEP faculty building is a hidden architectural masterpiece, designed by Alfredo Viana de Lima in the 1960s. Through photographs especially taken by João Carmo Simões and edited drawings, this book shows why the project has been, a silent reference for generations of Portuguese architects.
“ The architect’s main aim was to design a building where the existence of the different sectors was different and varied and always superbly unified by a dominant element common to all these sectors. This dominance driven by the variety of the work and the subject, although having a common link, will give students the most suitable environment that their personalities see fit to create, providing them with space both for isolation and for socialisation. ”
“ The fact that it is a pioneering example of modernity, a situation that is almost unique in projects commissioned during the dictatorship for cultural activities, and its unquestionable architectural quality give it a clearly exceptional status on the trails blazed in the quest for the affirmation of a new Portuguese architecture. ”
