Humberto Kzure

“A Cidade de Portas” is a documentary about the city as the frontier of the thought of Nuno Portas, visionary architect, urban planner and professor emeritus at the University of Porto - Portugal. His reflections, his architectural and urban projects, as well as the urban plans he coordinated and the books he wrote, raise a deep debate about the city as a cultural object, full of multiple ambiences and spatial contradictions, which reflect and define everyday experience make “being urban”.

Brazilian architecture in the 20th century influenced generations of architects worldwide. But there was a time when choosing an architectural style also meant choosing a vision for the country, amidst political power struggles.