Pitoresco constante - um percurso na arquitectura inglesa entre os séculos XVIII e XXI

Abstract

The current dissertation focuses on the Picturesque movementʼs evolution in English architectural culture. It studies the context out of which it emerged in the eighteenth-century and the transformations it has originated both in architecture and landscape design until nowadays. This study aims to understand the movementʼs relevance in its most important manifestations such as the relation with exterior landscape, the conception of an interior landscape, the relevance of movement to spacial apprehension and, fi nally, the conditions for the criation of the notion "Townscape", which is the transposition to the urban context of the principles the Picturesque had developed in gardens. The themesʼ analysis is focused on works from the different times throughout the study, searching to confi rm its presence in the contemporary period and to understand the course of revision and re-interpretation it has gone through. It realizes that this movementʼs presence and importance, from its emergence, is persistent in English architecture, shifting from periods of greater obviousness and others in which it is an underlying presence.