摘要：The dissertation Regionalism, Modernism and Vernacular Tradition in the Architecture of the Algarve, Portugal, 1925-1965 examines the development of building practices framed by two prominent themes of contemporary architectural discourse –modernism and regionalism– in a specific region –the Algarve, south Portugal– in four key decades of the last century. In the everyday design of objects that have never before been studied, I look for the local echoes of issues that are more commonly discussed through central examples. Concurrently, I investigate the reverse effect, asking if, and how, local developments reverberated in central constructs. Since the 1980s, regionalism has been a persistent trope in global architectural culture, often applied in hindsight to an heterogeneous array of instances; yet what was its original relevance, both as a concept and as a design tool, in a truly regional setting –a peripheral region of a peripheral country?.
