The “Athens Charter” published in 1935, is on the conclusions of the IV International Congress of Modern Architecture, 1933, entitled “Functional City”, and resulted in a manifest urban programming, as opposed to the chaos of the Industrial City. The proposals are on the four functions of the City, Housing, Recreation, and Work Movement, measured on [. . . ]

Architecture and Cities in Angola and Mozambique, 1925-1975, Ed. Livros Horizonte, is an important book for several reasons. The trail iconography of Portuguese architecture in the overseas areas during the twentieth century, ‘a new central colonial’, conceives of a ‘vision’ and an ability to deliver on those territories that the ‘Metropolis’ hardly reproduced until very [. . . ]

Lúcia Almeida Matos is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (FBAUP), graduated in Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, obtained the degree of Master of Arts (MA) and Master of Philosophy (MPhil) at Syracuse University (USA) and his doctorate from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University [. . . ]

Jean-Pierre Blanchon, a Frenchman in love with painting, wrote a book with the quotations of 1500 Portuguese artists, the Quotation Portuguese Artists in Auction – Guide 2006/2010 (Author’s edition). The author has an antique shop in the Chiado area and an auction house. Once arrived in Portugal in 1991, lived up to his addiction to [. . . ]

Palácio do Correio Velho Art Auction House, sold four compositions with Mixed Media, a Gouache composition and a Charcoal composition of the Sculptor Manuel Pereira da Silva in the Contemporary Painting Auction. Filed under: About us Tagged: Art Auction, Art Blog, Catalog, Contemporary Art, Manuel