Sun, Sand, Sea & Bikini. Arquitectura e turismo: Portugal anos 60
The “breakaway years” of the 1960s in Portugal marked an important turning point in the transition to democracy. The “defeat” of Humberto Delgado in the 1958 presidential elections, the outbreak of the Colonial War, the growing exodus from the countryside and economic and political emigration, the s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/4170 |
| Summary: | The “breakaway years” of the 1960s in Portugal marked an important turning point in the transition to democracy. The “defeat” of Humberto Delgado in the 1958 presidential elections, the outbreak of the Colonial War, the growing exodus from the countryside and economic and political emigration, the student protests, Marcelism and the opening up of the country to foreign investment, in addition to wide-reaching and important social benefits such as the right to paid holidays, all bear witness to the profound changes that were taking place in Portuguese society, and which had inevitable repercussions on territorial organisation. Together with the suburbanisation of the main population centres in the country, the advent of mass tourism would prove the principal driving force behind this new spatial order, and experiments in new urban and architectural models would revolutionise the organisation of the profession. This article discusses the impact of the phenomenon of tourism on the work of Portuguese architects and, consequently, on its relationship to society and the mechanisms of capitalist production in the 1970s, with the aim of relaunching the debate, postponed at the time, on the physical and cultural implications of leisure in the colonisation of landscape. |
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| ISSN: | 0254-1106 2182-7435 |