Stoner's book (2012) to the epigonal comparisons of courses at Yale (2015), with respectable academics such as F. Jennifer Bloomer is the first to see such a concept "Major" but, in our opinion, with the little development that Tafuri makes, compared to others such as "incomplete architecture", it does not justify the comparison of all those who did not doubt that Tafuri developed it. It should be remembered the definition of différance, where an economy of oppositions scans our language, as Derrida wrote. The temporality of the discussion between a major and a minor architecture starts in the field of the relationship literature/architecture in the American universities, at the end of the 1990s within the peak of the deconstruction. In particular, the term "Minor" goes back to Deleuze/Guattari's interpretation of Kafka's work as "Minor Literature". This analysis, when correlated to contextual issues found in both cases, shows that there are similarities that, while not evident at first sight, mark a possible turning point in the way of designing the transitional public-private space in Brazil and in Portugal.īased on a supposed conceptualization found in Manfredo Tafuri on the notion of "Major Architecture", which only appears only in one of his books and in a way not explicitly developed, a whole series of authors compare the openings of a contrary notion, "Minor Architecture", which would serve to counteract the excesses that the discipline has historically perpetuated. The works were analyzed based on criteria such as the insertion of housing-lots and the positioning of facades, streets, internal and external spaces, windows and doors, services and recreational environments. These aspects converged in typologies, topographies and in the architects’ minds, and, somehow, crossed the Atlantic. The hypothesis is that these approaches varied according to political, cultural and social contexts, and according to principles such as the construction of a specific way of designing. Coming from this, we argue that it was under a specific context in the 1970s, both in Brazil and in Portugal, that different approaches to said interface were best managed. Therefore, the object of this study is the public-private interface: the transitional space between the street and the interior of the dwelling, that is, an environment where the dual logic of the limit – internal/external, collective/individual, public/private – are naturally intricate. Based on those works, we aim to analyze the different understandings and conceptions on the relations between the public and private domains, in the specific context of housing, identifying (dis)continuities in the way of perceiving and dealing with the interface between the public and private spaces in Brazil and Portugal in the 1970s. We refer to Joaquim Guedes and Álvaro Siza, and their projects in Caraíba (Bahia, Brazil) and Malagueira (Évora, Portugal). This communication proposal addresses the issue of the public-private interface out of critical readings and analyses around works by two architects from Escola Paulista and Escola do Porto, respectively.
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