74–14 SAAL and the Architecture#

International Colloquium

Authors

  • José Bandeirinha

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2022-01-28

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No. 52 (2015): Reuse, Renovation and Restoration

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News

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74–14 SAAL and the Architecture#: International Colloquium. (2022). Docomomo Journal, 52, 91. https://docomomojournal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/400

Abstract

SAAL (Serviço de Apoio Ambulatório Local), Local Ambulatory Support Service, was a program for the construction of houses in poor neighborhoods. It followed the revolu- tionary process which, in 1974, brought to an end half a century of dictatorship in Portugal. Although properly contextualized in a very specific historical process, nowadays it is still a tool to think, to question and to debate the issues and challenges of housing as well as its ineludible proximity to architecture.