In the early 20th century in Portugal, a new architecture was produced as the offspring of different references, conforming to a process of "Portugueness" based on the picturesque. From the beginning of the dictator-ship in 1926, the State took advantage of that phenomenon to sublimate nationalist values. Through the first programs of mass housing construction, the single-family house became an object of consumption and a cornerstone of national identity. The search for identity brings together different architectures across the century featuring a renewed Portuguese sentiment infused with different prspectives on the "homeland", its history and its culture.