This is a work realized by a woman architect and project teacher that demands to show the importance of direct observation of architects' poetics, for the architectural production as much as for theory and teaching. It's based on the idea of a separation between the areas of history, criticism and architecture theory, this one with no valorizing character, but considered as a production catalyser. In this front, theory necessarily needs poetics of its own architects -the place where invention

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... curs. Poetics valoriazation also explains by crisis that attains rationalistic thought in all points os view, as well as allows the appearing of ideas' pluralism and slackening of dycotomy subjectivity/objectivity. This poetics although reveals particular ideas and concepts, permanently forges a more general theory by the dialog among other poetics, criticism and theory. On the strenght of it, she analyzed her own projetcs, realized between 1970 and 1990, interviews and projects of other architects, published from 1970 up till now. ABSTRACT 8 Apresentação Introdução 1. O passado recente da teoria da arquitetura 1.1. O debate depois da arquitetura dita pós-moderna 1.2. Tendência à interdisciplinaridade 1.3. Transdisciplinaridade 1.4. Arquitetos e projetos teóricos 1.5. A defesa da disciplinaridade e a revalorização do tectônico 2. Os paradigmas externos 2.1. Teorias do conhecimento, linguagem, filosofia e estética 2.2. Artes plásticas 2.3. Ciência e técnica