Arquitectura

The projects designed and built by the Portuguese architectural office Aires Mateus are, nowadays, among the most published in world professional journals. Their architecture seems to deliver such an attraction among professionals that laudatory reviews on their work are being written worldwide. There is, in fact, a kind of universality in their recent work that goes beyond the particular circumstance where the projects are located. The Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza, writing about the house in Comporta, stated that their response to the building's particular conditions "has all the earmarks of the universal." He claims, thus, that "this is a universal house"