O Eco de um Passado Primordial

• Autor(a) principal: João Bernardo Bispo Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/132986
• topic: Artes; Arts

The Echo of a Primordial Past arises from a concern transformed into the desire to know who we are, what we do here and where we are going. At a time when the path to follow is sometimes so cloudy, it is important to stop, look back and reflect. Thus, in the search for what may be the essence of Man, his creations and, consequently, architecture, our look is directed to an original period, where our species takes its first steps, reacts to its most natural instincts and begins walking a path of discovery and conquest that never stopped for some time. We have, then, the past as a (design) tool that should not induce us to stagnate in those times of yore, but rather motivate us to rediscover and reinterpret our present time and that which is to come. That is why it is important to recognize the constants, that which has been present since the beginning and which has never abandoned us and will never abandon us. More than forms, we find there a permanent posture towards the world, an eternal desire and an eternal need to organize the space around us, able to unite the public and the private, the community and the intimacy, the temple and the house. Wandering through this vastness, between the forms and the ideas that motivate them, between nearby and distant territories, between research and practice, between history and the current state of the discipline, we explore the timelessness and universality of architecture, and we define an imaginary that, consciously or unconsciously, ends up being inevitably present in all architectural practice.