Brutalist Discovery Tour on the Campus da Penha of the University of the Algarve in Faro
Video of the Brutalist Discovery Tour on Campus da Penha during the recent Modernist Weekend in Faro. We discovered this hidden Brutalist gem during a guided walk across Campus da Penha, the first university complex of the University of the Algarve , built in the 1970s and embodying a distinctly Portuguese late-modernist vision. The raw concrete structures , sweeping sightlines , and open structuralist spaces reflect the ambitions of that era, revealed in this piece of
Ballad of a Small Player & Learning from Las Vegas in Macao
From Mozambique to Macao When I was living in Mozambique — a former Portuguese colony — I made a firm decision to one day visit all of Portugal’s former colonies . In the end, I only made it to three African countries: Mozambique , Guinea-Bissau , and Angola . The other Portuguese territories — Cape Verde , São Tomé and Príncipe (in Africa), and Goa (in India) and Macao (in China) — remained on my wish list . And it was precisely the last of these that recently crossed
