From Tomar to Angra: Interpretative Hypothesis of Geometric Pattern Morphology

Urban rehabilitation within the framework of democratic decision-making in Portugal: Coimbra as a major example

A Construção do Algarve. Arquitectura Moderna, Regionalismo e Identidade no Sul de Portugal, 1925-1965 [Algarve Building. Modernism, Regionalism and Architecture in the South of Portugal, 1925-1965] [book review]

The Octagon in the Houses of Orson Fowler

Orson Squire Fowler (1809-1887) was an American author who wrote a fantastic book about octagonal houses in the mid-nineteenth century. This present essay focuses on how radial geometry can be used as a tool placed for designing comfortable, affordable housing. Octagonal geometry can be used as a tool for controlling nature, or as a system for controlling construction. This duality is synthesized in Fowler's use of the octagon. The analysis is extended to two other buildings with octagonal pl...