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The essay published here is the result of the final examination for aggregate professor that I have presented in ISCTE-IUL, between 2 and 3 of February, 2015. It corresponds to the text of the lesson entitled 'Architecture of the expansion (African Empire): Works of public promotion in the last phase of Portuguese colonialism (1944-1974)'. The original textg was kept. In the lecture, the 'spoken' descourse was confronted with a visual narrative. Here we sought to present the same logic by proposing two parallel readings as well.

Architecture, Portuguese colonial --- Architecture --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Portuguese influences. --- Influence.

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In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status and ethnic identity. Mark documents how the ways in which local architecture was transformed by long-distance trade and complex social and cultural interactions between local Africans, African traders from the interior, and the Portuguese explorers and traders who settled in the Senegambia region. What came to be known as 'Portuguese' style symbolized the wealth and power of Luso-Africans, who identified themselves as 'Portuguese' so they could be

Miscegenation --- Vernacular architecture --- Architecture, Portuguese Colonial --- Architecture, Domestic --- Hybridity of races --- Racial amalgamation --- Racial crossing --- Race relations --- Racially mixed people --- Architecture, Anonymous --- Architecture, Indigenous --- Architecture, Vernacular --- Folk architecture --- Indigenous architecture --- Traditional architecture --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Architecture --- Dwellings --- Portuguese colonial architecture --- Architecture, Colonial --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Architecture, Portuguese colonial --- Ethnicity --- Miscegenation (Racist theory)