The Portuguese delegation – CIAM Porto – has presented at CIAM X a proposal for a rural community. This was an innovative attitude that reflects the influences of the vernacular architecture present in the Survey on Portuguese Regional Architecture, carried out between 1955 and 1960, by some of modern Portuguese architects.
This research project focuses on the characteristics of the proposal presented in Dubrovnik in 1956 and on what it represents in terms of the national and international architectural culture.
Analysing coeval documentation – letters, drawings, reports, notes and other manuscripts – it is intended to re-read the Portuguese team's options both in its articulation with the rural world and in its innovative contribution, through multiple approaches, from anthropology to architecture.
On the other hand, this research intends to study the level of relation between the Portuguese proposal with other experiences, namely the CODA (Competition for the Obtention of Architect's Diploma) by Arnaldo Araújo, and rural settlements plans that at the time were built in the interior of Portugal.