The White House in Alenquer

architects Manuel Rocha de Aires ;ateus and Francisco Xavier Rocha de Aires Mateus
project The White House in Alenquer, Alenquer, Portugal
written by Vera Grimmer

 

Is there today a credible alternative to Greg Lyn’s ambivalent processes, Gehry’s acrobatics, the Calvinist diagrams of the Dutch? There is very much so, specifically in the less spectacular but extremely sensitive and engaged works coming from smaller countries (once great) such as Austria, Spain or Portugal.