There is a post-Kublerlian historiography that has been refined over the last few years by various authors. George Kubler (1912-1996) played a key role in developing the concept of "Plain architecture" and drawing attention to its design and morphology. For many years various examples of architecture were ignored by European historiography, as they did not fit into the Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque styles, corresponding to what Kubler called " Plain architecture". Azorean religious architecture remains on the fringes of this reading. This article presents an analysis of the design of the main façades of churches in the Azores, built in the 18th and 19th centuries, highlighting the existence of a façade typology. It concludes that there is a disarticulation between the design of the churches in plan and in façade, corresponding the plan to an ideology of "plain architecture" and the facades to a baroque language.

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Plain Architecture,Azores,Typology,Facade,Synthesis Drawings