“Even donkeys like” the Casa das Histórias museum says Eduardo Souto de Moura



Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura describes how a handwritten letter from artist Paula Rego shaped the design of the Casa das Histórias museum, in the final instalment of a video series produced by Dezeen.

Speaking in the third instalment of the series, Souto de Moura said the project was driven by a concise and highly specific brief from Rego, who asked him to design “not a museum, but a house”.

He added that the clarity of this request set the direction for the building, with the programme organised around the varying scale of her artworks.

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