Moving from FERNANDO TÁVORA no Ensino da Arquitetura. Marginal Living Between History, Design and Landscapes

History assigns a major role to the many cultural exchanges between Portugal and Italy, and identifies FERNANDO TÁVORA as a Portuguese master able to build a school of thought, important for his generation and the ones close to him, but also for the generation of contemporary architects. From here, a group of professors and students of Politecnico di Milano Mantova Campus starts a research on the traces of Távora, as an architect, traveler and professor. This research develops: a DIDACTIC PROJECT, continuous with the educational actions already undertaken with the interprets of the Portuguese contemporary architecture who have been his pupils and collaborators – Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura, João Mendes Ribeiro, Rui Lobo; an INVESTIGATION, on living and drawing the public, collective, domestic and open space, and on the preservation of the historical space; a JOURNEY to Portugal, moving from East to West, unlike Távora’s European journey, to get to know architecture through its direct experience; the REDRAWING, activator of the critic process of learning; the CONSTRUCTION through the models; an EXHIBITION and a BOOK, that collect and communicate the work’s results, exposing the traces of reciprocity, and locate mutual references for the contemporary project, in Italy from Portugal.