A Tectônica e a Arquitetura. A teoria como uma abordagem para a disciplina.

Abstract

In the midst of different design approaches within architecture, the theory of tectonics presents itself as an exponent in this debate, seeking to value architectural practice through its own elements. This way of seeing and analyzing architecture is not something new within the discipline, where at various times throughout history the theory has been present through the contribution of different authors, based on this, this work seeks to understand this evolution of the understanding of tectonics, analyzing the contribution of the German theorist Gottfried Semper and especially Kenneth Frampton's vision of the subject. In addition to these, which fit into a more traditional view of tectonic thinking, the new perspectives possible within the theory through the use of recent technologies will also be addressed, where digital tectonics relates to previous approaches on different scales, but in a way that makes it possible to transpose the tectonic debate to the present day. At the end of the work, based on the research into these different approaches to theory over the years, it will be possible to arrive at a vision of tectonics that will be the line of thought followed for the formulation of a final architectural project, with a structural system of a tectonic nature as the determining element, thus enabling the realization of what has been debated in the theoretical field within the design field.