Architectural Notes in Review aims to offer a shat- tered gaze on the teaching of architectural design across time and place. we have sought a multidi- mensional outlook that might allow for an apprehen- sion, fleeting as it may be, of the nature of a disciple that resists formalization, and at whose core the architect’s distinctive vision is generated. as an expositive device, the interview concentrates a set of communicational modalities that are especially effective in approaching that vision: experience, account, theorization, memory and that which could be called, despite his own refusal of any epitomes, masterfulness.
we have isolated three structural moments in eduardo souto de Moura’s testimony about archi- tectural design: a sharing exercise of his memo- ries as a student; a recollection of some of his most emblematic lessons as a teacher; and the possi- bility of opening up new thematic pathways and pedagogical readings towards an education in line with our times.