Abstract.  THE HOUSE OF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. Mechanisms of dissolution of the space limit in the north of Portugal.
The modern architecture brought a series of consequences for the way in which discipline was working architectural variables. Perhaps the most fundamental was the dissolution of the various systems that make up the architecture. This will accompany the emergence of new paradigms that will be pursued by the architects thereafter. One of them is the possibility to transform relations between the inner and outer space. The house would be the field of work and experimentation for excellence throughout the twentieth century, and it reflected many of these concerns. This work gather the theoretical principles that gave support to the dissolution of the boundary of space to put them in relation to construction and visual mechanisms that allowed achieving the sought results. For this, it starts from the study of modern housing in three of the great masters of the first half of the twentieth century: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. Subsequently it links with Portuguese architecture, to study the permanence and evolution of the principles and mechanisms of the discipline in the domestic architecture in northern Portugal in the second half of the twentieth century, focusing in the work of the architects Fernando Távora, Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura y João Álvaro Rocha.