O Edifício e o Direito ao Valor Temporal. Da profecia riegliana às práticas contemporâneas

Abstract

The present work deals with the themes of monument and heritage, based on the philosophies of three key authors: Alois Riegl, in Modern Cult of Monuments, Françoise Choay, in Allegory of Heritage, and Kurt Forster, in Monument\Memory and the Mortality of architecture. Finding parallels in the theories of authors such as: Viollet le Duc, John Ruskin, Robert Venturi and Aldo Rossi. The texts of these authors offer the instrument for the contemporary project that works in the heritage. Aiming to recognize the causes behind the project's actions, which have an effect on the loss of time value. Aiming to understand how the pedagogy of Escola do Porto can help to solve the problem. Structurally, the work is organized into: introduction, understanding and reflection. In the first part, we introduce the etymology of the concepts monument and heritage. In the second part, we develop an analysis of the theories of the three key authors that approach, respectively, the cult of heritage, the value of the monument and the loss of temporal value, which leads us through a neomodern vision to the dichotomy between the neologisms monumentalism and 'patrimonism'. In the third part, we draw a parallel between the theories discussed above and the contemporary portuguese context, namely the masters who consolidate the Escola do Porto, where one finds, what we believe to be, a response to the dilapidation of the loss of temporal value of the work.