DATE: 1978-1986 _______________________________________________ VISIT: Inside - Outside _______________________________________________ MORE DETAILS: This small building, in the centre of the city of Vila do Conde searches, on one hand to stay close to the scale of neighbouring constructions, but on the other hand, it seems to look for a big contrast in terms of language, keeping a certain, physical and material, distance to the surrounding elements.
A circumscribed architecture, that contrasts with no intention to do so.
The building emanates an enormous poetic sensitivity, rigour and an extraordinary attention to constructive detail.
In the “distant” year of 1988, this was the first work to receive the European Architecture Award from the Mies Van der Rohe Foundation. _______________________________________________
