Notes on the “Terceira Via” in Portugal and Sweden. A Comparison between Fernando Távora and Sven Backström & Leif Reinius

Giovanni Bellucci

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-0075/20064

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Giovanni Bellucci University of Bologna

Giovanni Bellucci trained at the Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, where he obtained a master’s degree in Building Engineering-Architecture and a PhD in History of Architecture. His research focuses mainly on 20th century architecture with reference to the Italian and Swedish contexts, with studies conducted in major archives including MAXXI and the Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Rome, the CSAC in Parma and the Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm. He has carried out long periods of study in Sweden that recently led to the publication of an essay on Sven Backström and Leif Reinius that earned him the “Bruno Zevi International Prize”.
He is the author of numerous articles in journals, books and proceedings of national and international conferences, a member of the editorial board of the reviews Studi e ricerche di storia dell’architettura and HPA - Histories of Postwar Architecture. He is adjunct professor in History of Architecture at the Faculty of Engineering of Ancona and Bologna.

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Fernando Távora, Backström & Reinius, Arquitectura Popular, Terceira Via, Housing

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The essay seeks to highlight similarities and analogies between the architectural work of Fernando Távora and that of Sven Backström and Leif Reinius, with the aim of expanding the already rich but still not exhaustive panorama of international comparisons that links some of the most important names in architecture of the second half of the 20th century. These are, as in this case, unconscious "encounters" that did not really happen but which today, with the right historical distance, can be virtually analysed on the basis of what was theorised and realised. The typological theme of housing, so urgent at the end of the Second World War not only among the belligerent countries, is also at the centre of attention in two countries that were neutral and not directly touched by the conflict, such as Portugal and Sweden. It is no coincidence that this typological theme is the focus of attention in the early part of Fernando Távora's design career, and no less so in that of the two Swedish architects Sven Backström and Leif Reinius.

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