O projeto diz o que o estudante lê?: estudos de projetos nos trabalhos finais de graduação em Arquitetura - UFPB e UNIPÊ

Abstract

From the revisionism of modernist culture, the architectural design developed in the Brazilian academic scenario came to prominence in the field of research on teaching, especially in the mid-1980s. Since then, in search of suitable methods for the teaching of design, the study and use of architectural projects as reference is regarded by authors like Mahfuz (1984), Bilodeau (1997), and Veloso (2009) as an important tool for the learning of design. Adopting this statement as a premise, this paper presents an analysis of the projects chosen as references by graduates of architecture courses in João Pessoa and outlines the relationship of the studies carried out by students and their Final Project, in order to verify pedagogical usefulness and the degree of utilization of the project’s studies as subsidies towards the design. To develop the work aiming to achieve the goals, methodological procedures were determined to win three stages of research. The first stage came from the need to clarify the terms adopted by several authors, in order to understand the above notions: correlates, project references, among other terms used both by the authors and the graduates. The second stage deals with how the students analyse the reference projects, and proposes to identify the reading level reached and the achieved learning potential. This part of the research has as a guide the principles of the method developed by the art historian Panofsky (1939) adapted from the work of art reading for the design reading. The third stage investigates the use of the learning achieved, wherein is verified the participation of the elements identified in the analysis of correlates project at the student’s Final Project. The study concatenates the stages of research and shows an overview that points to a general dissent in how students conduct the research project steps.