Os primeiros arquitectos conhecidos e o seu legado

Neste estudo sobre os primórdios da arquitectura, indicamos os nomes de dezassete arquitectos da Antiguidade pré-clássica (Egipto e Mesopotâmia) e da Antiguidade Clássica (Grécia e Roma). Apontam-se as suas obras de referência, salientando, quando for o caso, as suas inovações. Alguns exemplos: o uso da pedra e da forma escalonada da pirâmide Imohtep em Sacara; o uso de colunas proto-dóricas pelo arquitecto Senmut em Deir-el-Bahari; a utilização do arco e da abóbada no palácio de Domiciano em Roma pelo arquitecto Rabirio, etc. No legado destes primórdios da arquitectura são dignas de registo várias técnicas que perduram até ao presente: a iluminação clerestórica do templo de Karnak (muito utilizada nas catedrais góticas medievais); a "entasis" que foi usada por Calícrates no Partenon em Atenas e usada na arquitectura renascentista; a quadrícula de Hipódamo de Mileto como prática urbanística frequente.

The “right way” of Hermetism: disputes on Gnostic’s, Pagan’s and Christian’s (re-)visions of the Hermetic phonomenon in late antiquity

This paper aims to understand the phenomenon of Hermetism though the perspective of its process of reception and reproduction in society. It will explore the phenomenon that was the transformation of the Hermetica into a social discourse. The so-called technical and philosophical Hermetica are texts. A text is the result of a production: it is composed by men, and addressed to men. It is important to consider the intentions and values present in a text’s production, and to understand that its process of reception and reproduction in society are, in fact, complex and dynamic.

Exhibition Memory / Memory of an Exhibition

What are and how are memories witten? Since classical antiquity that an understading of the phenomon of memory has been searched for. How do memories, images of another time, constitute themselves as representations? How do we make objects of the past became present? Writing about the memories of an exhibition becomes a challenge of creating a representation. Operating a narrative that adds being. We assume that we narrate a process of something missing by evoking what became present in it.