Francisco Keil do Amaral

Francisco Caetano Keil Coelho do Amaral, 2nd Viscount of Pedralva (Lisbon, 28 April 1910 Lisbon, 19 February 1975), was a Portuguese architect, painter and photographer. His name was given to a street in Lisbon.

Francisco Keil do Amaral
Born28 April 1910 
Died19 February 1975  (aged 64)
Lisbon 
NationalityPortuguese
OccupationArchitect 
Known forArchitecture, painting, photography
Spouse(s)Maria Keil (1933-1975)
Children1
Awards
  • Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword 

Keil do Amaral stood out in a particular way throughout the 1940s and 1950s, having acted in an original way during these particularly difficult decades of national life. He assumed the project responsibility of important public works, without identifying himself with the political regime or with the historicist standards of the official taste of the Estado Novo and, at the same time, maintaining a critical distance in relation to the International Style orthodoxy, in search of a "third way" able to reconcile modern rationality with thoughtful consideration of the lessons of traditional architecture.

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