Casas geminados Raul Lino

This urban villa in Tavira (1932) proudly mentions the name and photo of the architect of this monumental house - Av. Dr. Mateus Teixeira de Azevedo 53. It was for sale and one of the "twin houses" designed by the architect Raul Lino (1879-1974) for the heirs of an important family in Tavira.

He was a Portuguese architects who gave an architectural face to the "Estado Novo" of dictator Salazar. In addition to the 700 buildings he designed - mainly in and around Lisbon - he wrote for various magazines and also wrote books such as "A Casa Portuguesa".