Habitações Económicas. Federação de Caixas de Previdência. Arquitectura e Modos de Actuação no Exercício do Projecto

Abstract

The present study focuses on the study of housing programmed in Portugal, mostly in the second half of the twentieth century, and on the impact it has had on the transformation of the national architectural panorama in the time considered. The objective is to understand the architecture produced by and for the "Economic Housing" - Federation of Pension Funds (HE), as a body that promotes housing for 26 years, and the modes of action of its main actors, both in the process of conception of the exercise of a project based on the modern ideals, as in the vigorous work of the teams that knew how to transform these same ideals into tools of social valorization, in the heart of a deprived country. [Re] constructs the course of the housing architecture promoted by HE, based on a universe of production rarely associated with a common cause, identifying the programs, the projects, the actions and, evidencing emerging values ​​associated to the understanding of the different standards users and the specificity of the context. The singular role and participation of Nuno Teotónio Pereira from 1948 onwards reinforced the phenomenon of the necessary revision of the housing program, not only as a way to conquer a commitment to the housing programs of the Estado Novo regime in force until then, but equally to the desire to affirm an experimental path led by the organism, which, unknowingly, was born in his hands.