RUA DE BERLIM

RUA DE BERLIM

Luxury Villas and residences

Arq Manuel Gomes da Costa (1959 / 1969)

The architect built about half of the street during a decade. Check no. 13; 15; 37 & 57.

Originally the Villas and buildings had flat roofs as in Modernism principles. But as the city hall refused he decided to do a 4 slopes roof instead.

GOOD TO KNOW : Those buidlings were ordered essencially by Algarvian emigrants who left the region in 1920’s to Latinamerica, became wealthy and returned to Faro. Wanted to express their success and avant-garde through modernism consutructions. Mr Pinheiro Brandao who had a house at number 13 is an example.

Modernism in Faro succeded also thanks to the emigrants who came back to the Algarve and wanted to push the city into the XXth century avant-garde.

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