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- Synthesis of the Arts: The Project of Architecture in its Relation with the Process of Design. Carlos Tojal, Manuel Moreira and Carlos Roxo (1960- 1974): Multiplano, a case study.Publication . Antunes, Sandra Sofia Pereira; Souto, Maria HelenaWithin the Theory and History of Material Culture, as well as the Theory of Design, this project relies not on essayistic, but on historiographical based investigation, strongly founded in documental sources. Aiming to reveal inedited documentation, actions and agents witch may contribute to the comprehension of the place of design, has of the culture of project oriented thought within the Portuguese context, it assumes as its object of study the architecture studio Multiplano – therefore, framing the problem of Design in Portugal from its process point of view, rather than from its object. Established in Lisbon around 1972 by the architects Carlos Tojal (1929-2015), Manuel Moreira (b.1933) and Carlos Roxo (b.1935), three architects known by the “Three Wonders” epithet, Multiplano and its interveners guard witness to several moments of national projectual culture. Between 1961 and 1974, Tojal, Moreira and Roxo have jointly developed a vast and coherent project-oriented and ideological body of products: demarcating up from Beaux-Arts contemplation, ideal Deco, or Modernist interactions to embrace projectual materialist dialectics, extending yet the concept of useful by structurally integrating artistic thinking along the social utopia of design; to be later overtaken by market.