This study puts forward two complementary evolutionary models and explores the potential of the proposed models and the related theses by employing two case studies. The theoretical/conceptual framework of the study refers to architectural theory, design research, and evolutionary epistemology. The study mainly involves application of some key ideas from evolutionary epistemology, Popper&amp / #8217 / s three-world ontology, and the theory of evolution to the field of architecture. The first model is about the nature of the architectural ideas or thought contents and it introduces the idea of conceptual inheritance and an evolutionary conception of architectural ideas. The model proposes a framework that offers an understanding of the life and existence of architectural ideas and their inheritance. It also puts forward an expanded view of architectural ideas that conceives all the thought contents, which architectural designs (or works) and the architectural design process might concern, as architectural ideas. In order to illustrate and discuss the model, some of the architectural ideas carried by Mario Botta&amp / #8217 / s single-family house in Breganzona are selected and the evolutionary lineage of these ideas have been identified and examined in their instances in some of Botta&amp / #8217 / s own designs and in some designs from architectural tradition. The second model is an evolutionary model of the architectural design process. While emphasizing the evolutionary or selectionist character of architectural design in terms of process and inner dynamics, the model conceives architectural design as a process consisting of the two stages of forming/making, and evaluation/selection where in the first stage formative ideas, in the second, selective conditions are operational. In order to illustrate the potentialities of the model, the sketches and the drawings produced during the design process of Mario Botta&amp / #8217 / s single-family house in Breganzona are examined.

[pt] A Epistemologia Pós-Darwiniana de Sir Karl Popper é uma tentativa de esclarecer um ponto específico da obra do filósofo austríaco Karl Popper: a função da teoria evolutiva de Charles Darwin na obra epistemológica tardia. Alguns críticos encontram na epistemologia evolucionária, núcleo da obra tardia de Popper, uma virada naturalista baseada na biologia. O principal objetivo dessa dissertação é negar tais interpretações. As bases de aproximação de Popper com o darwinismo em sua epistemologias são lógicas e não naturalísticas. De acordo com Popper, a estrutura lógica do darwinismo ( seus elementos a priori ) é a mesma do processo de conjecturas e refutações do raciocínio dedutivo. Isso explica porquê o darwinismo, que não é uma teoria científica, mas um programa metafísico de pesquisa, pode ser tão frutífero e útil para a ciência. Assim, se estivermos certos, o rótulo de naturalismo aplicado à obra epistemológica tardia de Karl Popper é um simples caso de má interpretação. / [en] The Sir Karl Popper`s PostDarwinian Epistemology intends to clarify an specific issue: the function of Evolutionary Theory by Charles Darwin in Sir Karl Popper`s late epistemological works. Some critics find a naturalistic turn based on biological grounds in the evolutionary epistemology, bulk of the late works of Popper. The main objective of this dissertation is to deny these interpretations. The basis of Popper`s approach to Darwinism in his epistemology is not naturalistic but logical. According to Popper, the logical structure (a priori elements) of Darwinism is the same of conjecture and refutation process of deductive reasoning. This explains why Darwinism, which is not a scientific theory but a metaphysical research program, is so fruitful and helpful to science. Hence, if we are right, the label of naturalism attributed to the late epistemological works of Karl Popper is a simple case of misunderstanding.