Eixo curricular de projeto arquitetônico do CAU-UFC: passado, presente e futuro

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze, through a historical perspective, the practices of teaching and learning the Architectural Design Curriculum Axis of Architecture and Urbanism Course of the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil). Therefore, It was adopted a periodization which emphasizes aspects about the foundation of the school in the mid sixties, a second period in the 1990s and finally, recent changes with results expected in the near future. In the three periods it will be used as parameters for analysis: the historical, economic, political and cultural-ideological context; agents (teachers and students); assumptions, the fundamentals, the principles guiding the Axis as well as the actions and contradictions. The relevance of the article is based on the need to understand the development of teaching and learning practices of architectural design in the context of the course, as well as to rescue the historical roots of the course, in order to discuss new possibilities of action, with the aim to transform, integrate and achieve new results.