Property specs
Farms
For Sale
Process No.: MAS_2311
Portugal » Minho » Braga


Farm with 4 acres totally fenced, with a rural house from the
18th century recovered in 1990 by famous Portuguese architect,
Fernando Távora, and considered one of his works of reference. It
consists of several publications on his work.
The farmhouse is located at the foot of Citânia de Briteiros, and
15 minutes from the center of Braga and Guimarães.
It consists of a main house, cottier's House, and the swimming
pool house.
Main house: 5 suites, dining room, living room with fireplace,
social bathroom, children's room, kitchen, laundry, 2 porches,
garden.
Cottier's House: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, living room,
threshing-floor.
Pool house: 1 studio with porch, bathroom and kitchnette
Swimming pool with 10 × 4 m
Information regarding the architect responsible for the renovation
of the main house:
As the creator of a new logic of construction, cross gave emphasis
to unique landscapes, using them as cultural data to be integrated
into the dialogue with the architecture.
He left a great amount of work of one being considerated one of
the greatest figures of Portuguese contemporary architecture,
founder and master of the "School of Porto", which early recognized
talent in the student Álvaro Siza and knew, like anyone, make a
synthesis between traditional domestic architecture, remarkable in
his work '50s and '60s, and international modern architecture and
present their projects in the 80s and 90s of the twentieth century.
He is an author of continuity inside the breaks, for whom an
architectural work must be understood in the context of the
surrounding environment.
There is an architecture prize in Portugal named after him "Prize
Fernando Távora".