Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii

Volume and Space: Scarpa's Sacello

John Nash: Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Casa dos Bicos, Lisbon 1523

Upper two storeys destroyed in the eartquake of 1755, rebuilt in 1983.

Traces of the secret name of Rome

António José Dias da Silva: Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno, Lisbon (1890-92)

Environs of the obelisk

urbs deserta


rus in urbe

Porfirio Pardal Monteiro: Church of Nossa Senhora de Fatima, Lisbon (1938)

This suburban church from the late 1930s presents a curious hybrid of architectural languages and materials. Its interior is formed in a gloomy concrete gothic, lit only by dramatic stained glass. This very atmospheric space sits behind a façade which could only be categorized as art-deco, although a rather austere example of the genre as befits its function. The expressive modernity of the individual forms of façade, campanile and baptistery are anchored by a rusticated base which adds much stability to the asymmetry of the composition.

Piazza del Duomo, Lecce

Mysteries of the Jardim Gulbenkian, Lisbon

Joze Plecnik: The Architect's House, Ljubljana