O chão da arquitetura

Abstract

This article analyzes the relevance of linking the Architecture and Urbanism Education to the regional context. This reflection is justified by the recent trend of higher education in Brazil in all disciplinary fields, marked by its commercialization and massification, explicitly allied in the field of Architecture and Urbanism, from a historical emphasis on the architectural object to the detriment of the urban-environmental approach, on an enlarged scale. Among the aims of the article, we highlight: (a) evidence of low concentration of curricular contents related to territorial issues, common in the training of the urban planners and architects in Brazil; (b) proof of the tendency towards the deterritorialization of teaching, both in-person and distantly; (c) discuss an innovative, territorial-based training proposal, being implemented in a medium-sized city, as a contrasting element. From the methodological point of view, considering the Brazilian higher education scenario as a background, the article analyzes and compares curricular structures of Architecture and Urbanism courses, from different institutions, that are offered in the state of Minas Gerais, Brasil. The obtained result shows that there is a formation preferably oriented towards an authorial architecture, and even when there is a higher density of spatial planning content, they are limited to a theoretical and design dimension, without any concern of an instrumental nature. In conclusion, it is evident that teaching and practice have a direct relationship, which means that restricted training is linked to professional practice that is also restricted. Conversely, to increased performance, within the legal prerogatives of the profession, and confrontation with a New Urban Agenda, in its multiple regional contexts, require training structured according to the territory where it is developed.