After the volumes on the work of the Portuguese architects Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura, here is the first monograph devoted to their teacher Fernando Távora.
This book documents the complexity of Távora’s architecture from the 1950s to the present by examining the places and cities where he worked: Porto, Aveiro, Guimaraes, Viana do Castelo, Coimbra and Lisbon.
A rich anthology of criticism as well as many of his own formerly unpublished writings, provide a profile of Távora, who was the protagonist of the clash between tradition and innovation in the debate that raged within the field of European architecture from the mid-twentieth century on.
The many photographs by Alessandra Chemollo and Fulvio Orsenigo were taken especially for this monograph.