ABSTRACT
Landscape Architecture was first taught in Portugal by Professor Francisco Caldeira Cabral in a free course at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) in 1942. Between 1942 and 1975, he was working and teaching simultaneously. Several of his first students have also worked as landscape architects/agronomists, while teaching at ISA, namely Álvaro Dentinho (1964–1967), António Vieira Barreto (1984–1988), Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles (1957–1963; 1988–1992), Manuel de Sousa da Câmara (1976–1988), among others. Over the next decades, new generations of landscape architects followed suit, conciliating their work at the atelier with teaching at ISA, e.g. Cristina Castel-Branco (ACB Paisagem/ISA: 1989–present), João Ferreira Nunes (PROAP/ISA: 1992–present), Teresa Alfaiate (Margem—Arquitectura Paisagista)/ISA: 1992–present), or Luís Paulo Ribeiro (Topiaris/ISA: 1999–present).
This chapter analyses the legacy of three generations of landscape architects, who reconciled professional practice with teaching and research. Through their work, projects, published texts, biographies, and testimonies of colleagues and former students, we will try to understand the relevance of a speculative practice of Landscape Architecture, reflected in a way of projecting and transmitting knowledge, ideas, and values between masters and disciples.
