About the contemporary disconnection from praxis, or by architecture as the architect's constructed ideation

Abstract

Architecture in Brazil is discussed from the notion of praxis. From the inseparable dynamics between theoretical action and practical action. Praxis is intrinsic to making architecture revealing, through analysis, different levels of interaction between its dimensions that now they come closer, now they move away. Praxis is context-sensitive. Both related to disciplinary body of architecture, regarding the political, economic and cultural situation in force in each historical period, interpenetrating each other. The conscious search for achievements of project ideas, of constructed ideation, can present a historical reading of the architectural production in Brazil from the 20th century through the lens of praxis. Paradoxically, in the present time, the praxis of contemporary Brazilian architecture has been influenced by the current circumstances of recent decades and the debate of architecture, substantially repressed or silent, grants design action a action solely obedient to the market.