Dos "Mapas e Diálogos na Arquitetura Contemporânea: Três registos autorais com Siza, Manuel Botelho e Souto de Moura"

Abstract

The exercise of Architecture translates into the transdisciplinarity of a 'networking'. The domain of this discipline involves the constant linking of knowledge and thoughts, and the fragmentation of its practice in specialties. Considering also commitment, between will and discipline, the contemporary architectural setting adds ambiguity to the problematic of authorial sense. Recognizing the subjectivity in the context of the exercise of architecture, this reflection has it's starting point as a (re)visit to the "Mapas e Diálogos na Arquitetura Contemporânea (MDArC)" open classes Cycle, organized by Luís Viegas (PhD) and Rui Américo Cardoso (PhD), in 2017, at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. From identification to projection, it's proposed to understand the role of the subject, whether as an author, or as a lector, from three works and three classes 'in potency'. Thereby, in a primarily theoretical approach, and from the strategic plot between three thought authors, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, it's intended to reflect on the authorial paradigm: author-creation-lector, to then be transposed to architectural scenery. As such, are summoned three architectural authors, Siza, Manuel Botelho e Souto de Moura, that were present in the MDArC Cycle, with the objective to recreate a thought network through 'authorial constellations', consequents of the diversity between discourse and gesture.From knowledge to acknowledgement, the present dissertation search to reflect about the authorial sense in Architecture, through its own process that begins with intersection, manipulation, reorganization and recomposition of three authorial registers, Dos 'Mapas e Diálogos na Arquitetura Contemporânea'.