The School of Carlos Ramos: A Lasting Legacy of a Revolution

This paper aims to contextualise the educational legacy of Architect Carlos Ramos among the rise of an avant-garde school of thought, over the 20 yrs that preceded the Carnation Revolution, in the midst of a cultural, social and political turmoil. It is argued that these were the circumstances that enabled the subsequent groundwork for the curricular formulation of the Design degree in 1975. The conducted research acknowledges a need to consolidate the understanding of the circumstances surrounding a particular school model in the 1960s, confirming Architect Carlos Ramos as a central figure for an innovative template to have emerged, as a single occurrence among national Schools of Fine Arts, at a time of political unrest in which censorship represented a powerful State policy tool.