Three or four times a year, when there is something to say. Written by Inês Valedra and Miguel Antunes.
Why every house we have built has a terrace facing west, and why the roof over it is exactly two metres forty deep.
The thatch on all forty-five houses comes off two hundred hectares of Sado marsh, cut between December and February by four families in Carrasqueira. We went out with them in the cold to see how it is done, and to ask what happens when they stop.
The first Praia Norte scheme had twelve houses, a road along the dune and a swimming pool for everyone. It was consentable and it was wrong. Here is the drawing we threw away, and the three years that followed it.
We print the journal twice a year and post it, because it is better on paper and because it means we have to be sure it is worth the stamp. If you would like it, ask Sofia when you write — there is no form for it, and no list anyone is sold.