ABSTRACT
Informed by the research work that makes up the inventory of public squares in Portugal, developed in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, part of the research team has developed two projects for very different public spaces: one for a church square in Bobadela, a small village near Coimbra, in the centre of Portugal, and the other one for a new square in the Azorean island of Santa Maria. The first square has been an important public space since the early Roman occupation of the site; the second is a completely new public space that was previously occupied by an urban block. The paper underlines the influences and relations between the architectural research developed in the Academy and the practice developed in the architectural Office in these two projects, i.e. how the research influenced the creation of reference spaces for the contemporary and future society.
