The EAAE and the Lisbon School of Architecture: A common history between 1976 and 1986

Abstract

On April 25, 1974, Portugal underwent a political revolution that put an end to a 40-year-old dictatorship. Since 1976, and in the ten years following, when the country entered the European Economic Community (1986), only two institutions were providing architecture education: the Superior School of FineArts of Oporto and its namesake in Lisbon. The revolution transformed the whole country, including both schools and their architecture courses. This article analyses the post-revolutionary period within the Lisbon School, taking into account the history it shares with EAAE. Thus, the use of the expression “common history” will firstly here have a sense of sharing; secondly, it will underscore the importance of the recollection of architecture schools’ histories for deepening the debate and thus facing present and future societal challenges in architectural education.