House of Serralves in Lordelo do Ouro, Porto. It is considered a unique example of "Art Deco" architecture in Portugal.
The Serralves House was designed by the French architect Charles Siclis, and its construction was overseen by the Portuguese architect José Marqués de Silva. The gardens were designed by Jacques Gréber in 1932. The house and garden projects progressed with successive alterations introduced by José Marqués de Silva until the works were completed in 1940.
In the 1980s it was the center of a project that culminated in the installation of one of the most important cultural and artistic centers of the Iberian Peninsula, uniting the house, the gardens, the estate and a Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Serralves House was designed by the French architect Charles Siclis, and its construction was overseen by the Portuguese architect José Marqués de Silva. The gardens were designed by Jacques Gréber in 1932. The house and garden projects progressed with successive alterations introduced by José Marqués de Silva until the works were completed in 1940.
In the 1980s it was the center of a project that culminated in the installation of one of the most important cultural and artistic centers of the Iberian Peninsula, uniting the house, the gardens, the estate and a Museum of Contemporary Art.
This happened because in 1987 the Ministry of Culture bought the property and in 1989 the Serralves Foundation was created, which installed a museum in the main house. The following year it was considered an area of landscape, urban and architectural protection.
Later, a new Serralves museum building was constructed, this time designed by the architect Siza Vieira, positioning it above the vegetable garden and orchards of the old garden. This necessitated a redesign of the exterior spaces in this part of the property, a project carried out by the landscape architect João Gomes de Silva. To compensate for the loss of the original vegetable garden, a herb garden was created at a lower point on the land.
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