ABSTRACT
In the process of constant confrontation between traditional values and innovation in teaching-learning processes, after a long period in which the evolution of schools architecture in Portugal was characterized by high resistance to the transformations proposed, through the years, in 2007 was established a complete school modernization program. Promoting concertation and dialogue between Architecture and Education and summoning pedagogical models that aim to make teaching more flexible and attractive, this Program was designed to articulate the preexisting buildings with innovative spatial devices capable of responding to this purpose envisaging the school in the future. From the program’s design to its implementation in each school, the dialogue was encouraged between tradition, the ideals of school and classroom rooted in the Portuguese cultural imaginary, and innovation, which urged due to the mismatch with contemporary expectations, educational in particular, and society in general. The intervention strategy, and the different lines of action, were developed in a way that it can be applied to all buildings, regardless of the different types that constitute the Portuguese school buildings universe, which, in addition to each authors interpretation and specificities, resulted in an enormous multiplicity of responses, in a strategy in which the tradition sustained the innovation.
