Porto holds 3 buildings across 2 architectural styles, with Deconstructivism as the defining thread. Rem Koolhaas's Casa da Música — a faceted concrete polyhedron dropped onto a public square — is the city's architectural landmark, a concert hall whose form was generated by cutting and folding a block rather than composing it conventionally.
The Vodafone Building by Barbosa & Guimarães adds a second Deconstructivist voice: a slashed, angular commercial facade. Agostinho Ricca's Parish of Our Lady of the Good View provides the Brutalist counterpoint — raw concrete in the service of the sacred. Porto's small but distinctive collection captures a city where bold formal experimentation meets the weight of tradition.
