Holiday House MGdCosta - architect Manuel Gomes da Costa - 1998-2005

This small holiday home that architect Manuel Gomes da Costa (1921-2016) built for himself in Vila Real de Santo António was designed in 1998. Although the last modification of the original project bears the date of June 3, 2005, it is in all probability the last design that he made as a working architect.

A house in which he only occasionally stayed for a weekend and which is his last work. Even though it is a small work and perhaps not very important, in the admirable stock of work of residential architecture (more than 400 projects) it is the culmination of more than fifty years of dedicated and intense solo career.

He always worked alone and never employed any staff. So a cycle that started in VRSA with his first project: a market building - a proposal that was never was implemented - would also come to an end in his hometown.