In this chapter we address, on the one hand, Francisco Caldeira Cabral as a producer of both discourse on landscape architecture and political ideology, hence the focus of our analysis on his texts. On the other hand, we look at the work carried out by the Autonomous Board of Roads and its engineers in the road policy and nationalist rhetoric of the Portuguese Estado Novo dictatorship. We argue that both landscape architects and road engineers contributed discursively and materially to the making of Portugal’s “revived” landscape of the Estado Novo’s regime, and that engineers were the professional group that in the 1930s and 1940s most benefited from this alliance, in particular through their intervention in state policies, resource allocation and professionalization.
