Notes from a Study: contemporary remarks on a pioneering text

Abstract

Written in 1976/7 by Brazilian architect and professor Rodrigo Brotero Lefèvre the text “Notes from a Study on the Objectives of Teaching Architecture and Means to Achieve them in the Design Process” discusses some parameters and paths for helping to bridge the gap between teaching and practice, between design activities and construction activities, between the individuality of creation and the necessity of learning to creatively work within a team. This re-reading of that fundamental text seeks to understand some of the circumstances of the author and his time and some of the most relevant reflections the text proposes, which include the dealing with the difficulties, and obstacles to overcome, and the advantages and interests in promoting and activating the possibility of the architectural design process to be taken as both a self-understanding individual process and a collective team process.