Information System of Alfredo Leal Machado

Alfredo Duarte Leal Machado, A Skating Rink, Academic work, EBAP, December 1926


Alfredo Duarte Leal Machado was born in Modelos, Paços de Ferreira, on 7 December 1904. In 1921 he joined the EBAP preparatory course. He went on to the Architecture Course, and was a disciple of José Marques da Silva. He completed the Course in 1932.

His work, still little studied and reflective of a course prematurely interrupted in 1954 - by the accident in Ciudad de Rodrigo, Salamanca, which would be fatal to him, during a journey towards Paris - is linked to Porto and the North of Portugal, but above all Coimbra, where he was a member of the City Council between 1942 and 1945. For this council he developed a design for the Regentes Agricultural School and a set of children´s playgrounds: the Queen Leonor Children´s House (Castanheira de Pêra, 1939), the second designer for the Filipa de Vilhena Children´s House (St António dos Olivais, 1940), the Joaquina Barreto Rosa Children´s House (Arganil, 1944). Also in 1940, he presented, jointly with Artur Pimentel, a design for the construction of the Central Thermal building of the University Hospital of Coimbra.

Also in 1939 he delivered the design for the City Hall building in Espinho.

In the homage to Marques da Silva exhibition, which took place in 1953, he exhibited four works: the Manuel II Sanatorium in Vila Nova de Gaia, the Public Works building and the Triunfo Factory in Coimbra and, in Porto, the interior of the Restaurante Abadia, still known today. As an architect of the North Delegation of the General Directorate of National Buildings and Monuments (DENN), he collaborated, in 1951, with Manuel Lima Fernandes de Sá, the author of the Design for the EBAP Pavilion of Architecture, which opened in 1954.

On the initiative of Colonel Engineer Carlos Alexandre Correia Leal Machado, second of five children* born from his marriage with Isilda da Conceição Fortunato Correia, in 1938, a set of photographs has been donated to the Marques da Silva Foundation which show him at different periods in his life, as well as the rights of disclosure of two academic works and architectural designs for the City Hall at Porto de Mós and for the Regentes Agricultural School (already available on the AtoM platform where the Marques da Silva Foundation Digital Archive can be found).

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 * Engineer Fernando Álvaro, Architect Alfredo Augusto, Dr Maria Isilda and Engineer António Manuel (Leal Machado)