Tradicional contemporâneo

Abstract

In today's conceptions, is the word traditional, associated with the past, separated from present and future concept? Can the tradition be a contemporary tool for architecture's production? And in what way can it fit in recent architectural vocabulary? By tradition it refers to a sum of heritages transmitted through time and translated into values, norms, principals, standards. Taking this into account, we can assume moments that some way broke with "tradition" came up with new "tradition" themselves. Just take a look at Modern Movement that wanted to break with all the past "dogmas" and by creating new principals it also became today a "tradition" reference, in each we can "drink" from the past in order to build the present, breaching again with certain "legacies" and so on. We can imply this process of "tradition creating" is generated by disrupt in tradition itself, the same way a trail is constantly broke allowing us to move forward (always adding new elements) being itself a cumulative line of disrupts and continuities. This thesis aims to clarify the traditional and contemporary concepts, in a context of continuity and rupture, analysing the process that involves and connects themselves.