O método como principal legado da Faculdade de Arquiteura da Universidade do Porto

Abstract

The methodology of the architectural project is the major contribution that an Architecture University can provide. Starting with the exhibition of various views and influences, the school creates the way we see our profession. The reason to work by these parameters is the main object of this reflection. The first contribution to this formulation arises from the exposition of the Oporto's School phylosophy; of what it transmits we choose either to follow or to react but we will never able to ignore. In the past and today, the emphasis in the study of the design and respect for the context, is something that marks undeniable the academic path, particularly in the begining. Soon we realized that what the school wants to convey is an adaptive view, it results in a method that does not act as self-determining. This awareness allows us a completely different view architecture of the past and today, on this basis we observed that the lessons of past architects are because they, too, relied on values and references to build what today we value not as an object but rather a solution, we are interested in the method because it is the result of such choices. In a last moment we look to explore the outcome of an opportunity to build, even during the academic: identify a process of connecting knowledge to its materialization, identify gaps, and constants that are derived variants of the method applied, we validated the importance of it and noticed that the built work offers more than a reflection, an opportunity to modeling the cyclical method that created it. Our choices define who we are, the principles we share. Our method.