It is desirable that every generation rebel against its elders, but in Porto the weight of its influential school stamps a degree of know-how that is difficult to shed. Notwithstanding, for Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, and Lera Samovich, diversified training, international experience, and above all shared obsessions have carried the day over mere physical ties to the city they work in, and as Harold Bloom would say, have enabled them to overcome the anxiety of influence that the city on the Douro River wields over its architects. With the freshness required by low budgets and the naivety of those who face project after project as if it were the first ever, the team has gone about weaving a heterogeneous web of references and resources, denser each time but always guided by an insistence on clarity: a rootless but radical practice now taken stock of by Arquitectura Viva with commentaries by the architects themselves. Thus speaks fala.