In Angola and Mozambique, Le Corbusier’s work had a special impact on architectural production during the ’50s and ’60s. Although the predominant urban model in the main African Portuguese colonisation cities privileged single-family housing, here and there, we find a few detail plans issued from the Athens Charter and that foster the construction of collective housing units. These buildings, addressed to an urban colonial middle class, make a significant mark in the largest cities between the ’50s and the ’60s. Although much smaller in size than the Marseille Housing Unit, these are mixed housing, service and shopping blocks that stem from the premises of their reference model and test ...

Le Corbusier (1887–1965) had already explored, at an earlier stage in his career, the possibility of capturing architecture and the world through the filmic medium. One could argue that the relationship Le Corbusier had with film developed when he was a young man, when he was still Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, which would make an assessment of the importance of his 1911 voyage d’Orient meaningful. To a large extent the genesis of the complex relationship Le Corbusier was to establish later with architecture and with the world can be traced back to those travels; indeed, they should be seen as the very roots of his identity. This paper sets out to understand the principles that may have nu...

In September and October 1958, Nuno Teotonio Pereira and Nuno Portas embarked on a trip through Europe with the aim of coming into contact with different experiences in the area of housing. Spain and Italy were the recipients of short visits that sought to understand the social and economic structure in the post-World War II period and the responses of the various bodies responsible for the housing sector. In a decade marked by new paths being taken by architects committed to a process of social transformation, these two Portuguese architects, faced with the housing deficit that was making itself felt in Portugal, brought back from this journey a number of modern references that inevitab...

A presente dissertação foi realizada no âmbito do Mestrado de Engenharia e Gestão Industrial da Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicão, e descreve o projeto desenvolvido na empresa Bosch Car Multimédia, S.A. O projeto constituiu uma proposta de resolução de um problema devido a uma mudança de layout de linha e conceitos de máquina numa das áreas de negócio da empresa CC- “Chassi systems and Control”, onde são produzidos componentes eletrónicos para o setor automóvel. Estas alterações contribuíram negativamente para a Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) deste conjunto de linhas. O processo de Changeover foi identificado com um dos pontos críticos originando um projeto de melhori...