How to look at Taveira's work beyond the positions on the figure? Along the way, you can read the history of democratic Portugal architecture.
Tiago Bartolomeu Costa
In the novel Le Brutaliste, which Matthieu Garrigou-Lagrage wrote having as inspiration source the public character of the architect Tomás Taveira (éditions l'Olivier, 2021), the expanded figure crosses with the ambiences of his architecture: “And he advanced, with a perfidious gaze, in the luminous corridors of a shopping center he built, with the aura of a cowboy with a sulphurous reputation and quick on the trigger, as if crossing the only street in the city, interviewed by the curtains of the houses where