Eight houses

Abstract

In the cycle of the conferences that took place in the Open City-Piacenza International Summer School, the Portuguese architect Manuel Aires Mateus introduced eight projects of isolated houses in Portugal. The projects, that were displayed at the last Venezia Architecture Biennale, People meet in architecture , born from the idea of composing an architecture capable of telling the new ways of life through the space as a mean for expressing the thinking on the contemporary society.