Abstract
The term “Porto School” designates an identity that relates the pedagogy of a teaching institution with the ideas and the architectural practice of its professors and/or former students, resulting of the transmission (and update) of a way of thinking connected to a way of doing: a concern with social responsibility (perceived through the notions of collaboration and relationship with the context), a timeless concept of modernity, an intentional appropriation and miscegenation of models (in a process that we can call critical eclecticism), the belief that architecture should be considered figurative art (perceived in the pace of a promenade thoroughly controlled in time and space), a Vitruvian understanding of the education of the architects, the practice of manual drawing as a primary method of conception and the requirement of accuracy in the processes of work and communication.
Keywords
Modern Movement,
Modern architecture,
Architectural education,
Education of modern architecture,
Porto School of Architecture,
Marques da Silva,
Carlos Ramos,
Fernando Távora,
Álvaro Siza Vieira.
Issue 49
Year 2013
Pages 52-57
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/49.A.TEK40OMA