A+I A+I
ai-research.pt is a research cluster and website based at dinamia'cet-iul that addresses issues related to Criticism, Theory and History of Architecture with an impact on contemporaneity. The core is composed by a group of researchers involved in housing, colonial & post-colonial and gender studies, architecture and urbanism education and Portuguese architectural culture. We work as a team in building research networks, benefiting from the coordination and participation in projects funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and the Cost Association. We deal with archives and heterogeneous documentation, from architecture drawings to films, we rely on field trips and oral history, we promote new historiographical and essayistic narratives that escape from traditional Eurocentric views. We work in long chronological frames and broad geographies, focusing on the territories that have Portuguese as one of their languages, asking ourselves how they are positioned in the world.

        

© 2023 A+I - All rights reserved.
Group of students during a lecture by Professor Luís Patrício Costa at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon, Convento de S. Francisco, Chiado, summer 1984. [Photograph by José Paulo Brito].
Diploma ceremony for the 1982/83 Architecture course in the patio of the Architecture Department of the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, October 1983. [Collection of the Video Section of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon].
Camping outside the newly-opened facilities of the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon (in 1994) as part of a Syndication, summer 1998. [Archive of the Students' Association of the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon].

“The Lisbon school: architecture and culture from 1970 to 1986”

Leonor Matos Silva DOCTORAL THESIS

The thesis “The Lisbon school: architecture and culture from 1970 to 1986” is about the architecture course at the Fine Arts School of Lisbon. It covers the period from the beginning of the school’s academic crises in the early 70s, through the 1974 political revolution that led to the suppression of classes, to joining the European Economic Community, in 1986, when private courses began to appear.
The text privileges a cultural perspective, favouring the events described in the vast archival documents that reflect what was put into practice rather than official, but scarce, information. The result is a portrait of a period which had been erased from the collective memory.

YEAR:
2012 - 2019
STATUS:
Concluded - With distinction by unanimous vote
INSTITUTION:
ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon
SCHOLARSHIP:
FCT - SFRH/BD/80535/2011
REPOSITORY:
Link
COVER IMAGE:
Group of students at a drawing board in the Architecture Department
of the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, ca. 1978.
[Facebook group "ESBAL arquitectura 1982"].
ORIGINAL TITLE:
“Escola de Lisboa. Arquitectura e Cultura entre 1970 e 1986”