Escola Secundaria Luso-Chinesa
高美士中葡中學
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Escola Secundària Luso-Chinesa de Luìs Gonzaga Gomes (ESLC) is one of the few public secondary schools in Macau that was established in 1985. It is located at the base of Guia Hill, across a street from Tap Seac Square, which used to be one of the city's main public outdoor soccer pitches.
ESLC is divided into the Chinese and Portuguese sections, offering day school and adult night school. The Chinese secondary section uses Cantonese as the language of instruction, but maintains an emphasis on Portuguese language and culture. Unlike most of the private schools in Macau in which Portuguese, if offered, is available only as an elective for two or three hours per week, ESLC curriculum has six hours of compulsory Portuguese-language classes each week. The Portuguese section uses Portuguese as the main language of instruction, and offers only junior high school courses. The Adult Night School, which can be taught either in Cantonese or Portuguese, provides formal junior high and senior high education for students who fail to complete secondary school in Macau.
The original main building was designed by the engineer João Canavarro Nolasco, who brought the modernist architectural style to Macau during the 1930’s and 1940’s. In that period, the modernist and art deco architectural style was established strong in Macau. Modernist architecture emphasizes the function of buildings, simplicity and clarity, with the elimination of unnecessary details, such as ornaments and decorations. The campus has a simple, rectangular and symmetric shape, with clean horizontal lines and a lack of ornament. It uses reinforced concrete structure, and a series of large glass windows, allowing more natural light into the interior. The building originally had two floors, but was later extended to a three-floor building. In 2003, two new school buildings were added on both sides of the main building.
高美士中葡中學是澳門成立於1985年為數不多的幾所公立中學之一，它坐落在東望洋山的底部，與塔石隔街相望，也是主要的公共戶外足球場之一。
高美士中葡中學分為中文和葡萄牙語部分，提供日校和成人夜校。中文中學部分使用廣東話作為教學語言，但仍側重於葡萄牙語教學和其文化。與澳門大多數私立學校每週僅提供兩到三個小時的選修課不同，高美士中葡中學課程每周有六小時的必修葡萄牙語課程。葡萄牙語部分使用葡萄牙語作為主要教學語言，並且僅提供初中課程。成人夜校可以用粵語或葡萄牙語授課，為未能在澳門完成中學課程的學生提供正式的初中和高中教育。
最初的主樓是由工程師若昂·卡納瓦羅·諾拉斯科（João Canavarro Nolasco）設計，他在1930年代和1940年代將現代主義建築風格帶到了澳門。在那個期，現代主義和裝飾藝術的建築風格在澳門佔有了很高的地位。現代主義建築強調建築的功能，線條簡潔明了，並消除了不必要的細節，例如裝潢和裝飾品。校園具有簡單，矩形和對稱的形狀，水平線整潔且沒有誇張裝飾，使用鋼筋混凝土結構和同系列的大玻璃窗，使更多的自然光進入室內。該建築最初有兩層，後來擴建為三層建築。 2003年，在主樓兩側增加了兩座新的教學樓。
“Butterfly Method” Analysis：
On the rational side, the school building has almost 90 years of history. It is one of the buildings of João Canavarro Nolasco representing his modernist architecture style from the 1930s, so it has its historical value. Now, the ESLC is one of the few schools in Macau which uses Portuguese as its language of instruction. The school will continue to educate students on the Portuguese language and culture in the future. On the emotional side, the school retains a lot of memories of the Portuguese culture and will continue to share this culture to the future generations.
在理性方面通過分析，高美士中葡中學已有近90年的歷史。該現代主義建築由澳門葡人工程師施若翰（João Canavarro Nolasco )設計，是澳門現代主義建築的代表作，故被評定為具建築藝術價值的樓宇。高美士中葡中學是當今澳門為數不多使用葡萄牙語為主要教學語言的學校。在未來，高美士中葡中學將繼續慢慢建立學生學習葡萄牙語和葡國文化的興趣。而在情感層面，學校保留了許多在澳葡政府時留下的文化記憶，而這些文化影響將在澳門長久留下。
References:
Clayton, C.H. (2009). Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of the Chineseness. Harvard University Press.
Escola Secundària Luso-Chinesa de Luìs Gonzaga Gomes (n.d.)
Retrieved from http://www.eslc.k12.edu.mo
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