Foreword by Adrian Forty.

The Algarve is not only Portugal s foremost tourism region. Uniquely Mediterranean in an Atlantic country, its building customs have long been markers of historical and cultural specificity, attracting both picturesquedriven conservatives and modernists seeking their lineage. Modernism, regionalism and the vernacular three essential tropes of twentieth-century architecture culture converged in the region s building identity construct and, often the subject of strictly metropolitan elaborations, they are examined here from a peripheral standpoint instead....