Arquitectura e res publica, da responsabilidade do comum

Abstract

The study focuses on the public occupation of the physical setting and on the understanding of the role of the architect in relation to the responsibility for the real action itself of which the condition of its existence forms a part. The extent in which one can start a city project and another configuration of community: the common as part of a process of a 'initiation', under the abandonment of the experience of identity as a unification, and the recall of the experience of a bein- together yet to come, in an attempt to approximate form to the res publica. In a review of the role of the architect, it is of interest today to understand the instruments of action in the construction of the public matter. The debate around disciplinary practice induces critical discourse, in which the making of architecture implies an attitude before the responsibility of action. Critical and analytical practices (mode of existence) are generated, capable of crossing the instituted and implying a paradigm shift: architecture as a process of generating knowledge in the most diversified practices with the basis of co-existence, that is, beyond finitude of the individuals in common, that which makes us connect to one another.