The project of the clinic was commissioned in 1938 by the Mexican Modern Movement pioneer Charles Leduc Montano. The building was built between 1939 and 1942 in functionalist style as one of the first buildings of its kind in Chiapas. Its main characteristics are functional “H”plan, simple beauty of the architectural volumes without superfluous decoration and long and ventilated corridors that promoted rest areas appropriate for patients in recovery. The building was constructed with at-the-time innovational technique  – reinforced concrete combined with mud wall. It had also featured flattened cement-sand, polished floors, wooden doors and windows and mosquito nets, all…

“Less well known than its European and Latin American counterparts, but unique for its direct relation to a water stadium, the Marine Stadium Grandstand in Miami is a cast-in-place concrete 100-meter long building with an eight-section hyperbolic paraboloid roof (2). It is 33-meter wide with a cantilever of 20 meter over the stands; one third of the structure is built on piers into the water. Used for motorboat racing and various types of concerts on a floating stage, the 6566-seat grandstand was built at the edge of a Circus-Maximus-like water stadium, designed and landscaped to face the stands. Hilario Candela, a Cuban architect…

The Ofir House by Fernando Távora, 1956-1958 Casa Dr. Fernando Ribeiro da Silva, Ofir, Esposende, Minho The Ofir holiday house was the first work by Fernando Távora (1923‐2005) published in the Arquitectura magazine (nº 59, July 1957). It was presented as a work that searched a personal language which reconciled the values of traditional Portuguese architecture and new technologic and material achievements. The house was built during the period of transition between de 50s and the 60s, standing out in its historical context, opening up the path for a renewed Modern architecture and for contemporary Portuguese architecture; between an architecture…