LB 34 EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA vatican chapel

EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA casa em braga, is the thirty-fifth title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION.

He had conceived houses, fifty-one of which have been built at the time of writing (I counted them), but none yet for himself. He even said that he was incapable of doing so, much like he had long claimed not to know how to draw windows.
It’s on the second floor of a small building – that he in fact drawn – in a peaceful part of Porto, in Foz, that he lives. Devoid of any sense of ownership, I believe; not inclined to possess things, it seems to me, and yet he is at home there. This is his home, their home.
Creating houses for others, yes, that he could do. But becoming his own client, that was another story. The architect knows, more than anyone perhaps, that intention does not always lead to the expected outcome, and often he finds rather than seeks them.
That may have explained it: that the dream house only exists in the mind. A utopia that should not be tampered with too much. (…) 

DOMINIQUE MACHABERT