O contentor marítimo na arquitectura. Avaliação do seu desempenho enquanto sistema de edificação alternativo.

This dissertation addresses the use of Standardized Shipping Container (SSC) in architecture.The growing number of buildings using SSC's as a construction component justifies a moredetailed approach on the motivations and the advantages that architects have found on thistype of architecture.In...

Portuguese state-subsidized housing projects. A general overview of a recent heritage

Conservação de uma memória: a arquitetura sanatorial na contemporaneidade

With the large amount of degraded buildings in Portugal, it's important to encouragethe conservation and rehabilitation. Taking into account that sanatoriums- new architectural typology developed to fight tuberculosis - appearedin a time of big changes, not only in the architecture area ...

Sebentas de História da Arquitectura Moderna: um projecto de ensino de História de Arquitectura

In 2003, Domingos Tavares has begun a new publishing project entitled "Sebentas" of History of Modern Architecture. As explained in the plan of its published work, these "sebentas" (notes taken from lectures and then typed in the form of a book for university st...