Houses. Traços de um Percurso An Architectural Journey -9789898875020

描述

The houses of this book lie in a very specific territory. It is the extreme southwest of Europe, perhaps the most peripheral and distant of the continent.

Those who live and work here seem to do it by choice, conscious of the limit situation of the region. It is a place that opens to the sea in a condition of extreme land and border, in which the ocean offers itself inviting to the unknown.

It is with this sense of exploration of limits, in multiple senses, that the houses of MM offer themselves to the senses. The visual radicality, the careful interior-exterior separation, the extreme exploitation of the resistance of the structures are just a few of these situations.

Editor
José Manuel das Neves

Graphic design
Clara Bridges

Mário Martins
Born in 1964, in the municipality of Lagos, Mário Martins heads to Lisbon to study architecture, returning to his origins where he develops much of his work.
Single-family housing for private clients is the predominant work, interspersed by private and public equipment such as hotel / tourist equipment, schools, local markets. At the same time, he has been developing some research work, with particular emphasis on “color in architecture in Lagos” in the 90s, which after exhaustive surveys with the photographer João Mariano, culminated in the recovery of several urban fronts in the Historic Center of this The work carried out over these 20 years has been worthy of reference in some publications and presented in various communications in meetings and congresses.