Unidade

of the real sphere, especially in a time of crisis and questioning of the conventional social, cultural, economic and political structures. In sum, it's important to bring together the real, the utopia and the "héterotopie". In architecture - a very generalist discipline, with dominance over other domains - we should claim for critical discourses on the extensive reality, and not only on the historical heritage, the formal languages or technical facts. That way we would take the risk of being smashed by the very contemporary super-specilization which has niches of all kind. If we could always hope a reflexive exercise from Unidade - a kind of mirror of Oporto school's critical moments - the present circumstance , requires a look out the window. However, we are not proposing any re-foundation of a school idea, or any any alternative idea, but the contamination of a process, or processes of learning and researching. This could be a genuine way of reconnect with the society, of finding a sense of identity on the reality. The portuguese reality should be rethought in these terms, and not only as a tradable object - "Portugal".There is a huge virtualization on architecture exercise, which is partly promoted of a bad use of some new instruments, and the ignorance of what is external to the office walls. To place our very diversified opinions on those issues, we need tough, to (re)build conceptual bases counting with the force of the circumstance coming from the political, social,economic and cultural realities.