The Atelier: a fundamental method of the architectural education

Abstract

In times of instability in Portugal and almost in the entire world, due to a shortage of resources and a decrease in population, in a context in which construction and demolition are being responsible for a huge amount of garbage and waste, the great challenges facing architecture are centered on interrogating the territories, their history, memory and identity. Today’s context is made of moments of enormous doubts and changes followed by a hyper-specialization of knowledge. The deeper we look and search into, the more we become focused on particularities, isolating unconsciously from the complexity of context phenomena.