Vozes Vivas da Escola do Porto. Entre pedagogias e vivências, a construção da ideia de Grupo na consolidação da Identidade

Abstract

Developed within the context of the research project Vozes Vivas, the present dissertation focuses on the life of the Architecture Course at the Oporto' School from the point of view of two dimensions that simultaneously differ and complement each other. To the formal history of the Course, based on written and official records, and which corresponds to the evolution of pedagogies, study plans and teaching methods, a more informal and personal perspective is added, told by the characters, students and teachers, who lived and participated in these transformations. The oral history of the Course is told through its direct testimonies, in experiences, crossings and interrelationships that extend through the city, and, as a whole, conform a human sense of School. Thus, it is through the various evocations that an idea of Oporto' School is designed, based on a collective memory, a set of values and teachings, the joint action of a group that, in its unity, knew how to act and react, always between ruptures and continuities, constituting a guarantee of identity.