Pensar, romper, hacer. La Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Costa Rica. 1962-1974

In 1971, the School of Architecture of the University of Costa Rica opened to first students inside the Rodrigo Facio University Campus, in the outskirts of San José, Costa Rica'scapitalcity.TheSchoolwasthefirstschoolofarchitectureinthecountry.Itsexperimental curriculum had been devised by three Costa Rican architects: Rafael Felo García,JorgeBertheauyEdgarBrenesaftertheyhadspentayearatthefamousDepartment of Development and Tropical Studies of the Architectural Association in London. This dis...

A casa ideal/a casa comum. Derrubar o objecto, libertar o poema

Starting from some of the oeuvre of Alison & Peter Smithson and Anne Lacaton & JeanPhilippe Vassal, this work has the ambition to (re)construct architecture's classic triad - Firmitas,Utilitas, Venustas - on behalf of an architecture closer to its essence. In the name of one's ownarchitectural-project, one believes to be fundamental to chase this essence, in order to unveilarchitecture from its superficiality and to understand its core, its essential field of action. The originof architecture...

A minha "casa (velhota)"/objecto-praticável de aprendizagens. Experiência e Investigação/Projecto-(D)E-Arquitetura

The history of this dissertation arises to express a personal wayof understanding architecture and, essentially, a way of practicing it.This work wants to be project, synthesis, critical sense of knowledge,research writing and drawing.Challenged by the uneasiness of the do-project, this is seeking togo against a common architecture that uncovers through an essentialgesture the beauty in simple thing. It makes sense as a resource where thecondition of life, in the course of everyday life, is i...

A Caminho de uma Arquitectura Interativa: da Cibernética à Inteligência Artificial

The present dissertation aims to study how adaptive architecture was formulatedin the second half of the 20th century and how its concepts evolved to the presentday. Following a specific strand of adaptation, which relies on technology to generateinteraction between man and the constructed environment, we study interactivearchitecture, which foundations are outlined with the propagation of cyberneticconcepts to architecture in the 1960s. Then, it is studied how the field of artificialintellig...