Resumo:
The paper discusses the relevance given to the visual relation of the city with the ocean thru the interventions in it´s sea boarder. We think there that the debates reveal a simplification of the sense of the vision of the coast, reducing the role of the architecture and stimulating to the loss of the meaning of the place. We start of the texts and projects of the franc-swiss architect Le Corbusier for its influence in the Brazilian Modern Movement and for, when establishing as essential the visual contact with nature, developing space techniques and to anticipate questions until today current. We trace a line of the reflection through projects notables in Brazil and specific cases of Salvador and other coastal cities. In an elementary ontology of seeing, with emphasis in the subject that sees, we approach the dilemmas of the search for the sight of the sea in the private and public scope, and tried a refinement of the vision, from considerations on its geometry and the relation of the subject with the site, and of this with the city
