Architectural Design - Theory and Practice
Programme
Architecture
Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS
Doctorate | Semestral | 10
Year | Type of course unit | Language
1 |Mandatory |Português
Total of Working Hours | Duration of Contact (hours)
250 | 45
Code
ULP1972-15380
Recommended complementary curricular units
n/a
Mode of study
Face-to-face
Precedences
Não
Professional Internship
Não
Syllabus
1. Introduction, Methods, motivations and goals.
1.1 Research in architectural design.
1.2 The construction of knowledge in architecture
1.3 Revision of Modernity. Theories of the project.
1.4 The modern architecture as an object of study.
2 . Concepts, systems and mechanisms in the architecture.
2.1 From abstraction to concreteness of architecture.
2.2 Concept, architectural idea and argument.
2.3 Generation systems of the form: the geometric support and its relation to the visual construction.
2.4 Architecture mechanisms as elements in the transmission of technique.
2.5 New materials, new techniques.
3 . Types of architectural mechanisms.
3.1 Different goals regarding of visual - constructive architectural mechanisms.
3.2 Types of architectural mechanisms: historical journey.
3.3 Material, conceptual and visual objectives of the constructive definition.
4 . Examples and practical case studies.
4.1 Case studies of modernity.
4.2 The postmodern crisis and its visual -c
Objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the various theories of the link between the project and its objectives and visual design solutions. Thus presents a systematic definition of the constituent elements of constructive-visual architecture that allows to provide the student with a framework for analysis of both the previous starting point as the consequences of different projective elections within the architectural-constructive language. Also the presentation of case studies will be aimed at the construction of an advanced vocabulary within constructive formal-that allows the student to be able to propose new solutions both from the theoretical knowledge as the empirical support.
Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired
It is expected that the student is able to effectively manage a catalog of diverse visual-constructive solutions ranging from the modern to the contemporary canon, to which will may need to assimilate its projective part of different theories and practices in the definition of different architectural mechanisms.
Teaching methodologies and assessment
The course is developed through lectures in which the teacher presents, discusses and contextualizes the issues under debate, followed by seminars conducted in groups in which students are critically each of the themes. The assessment will be made on the basis of an essay on one of the themes of the course (50%), presentation in class the subject of study (20%) and a series of practical exercises visual-constructive definition applied to each of the mechanisms study (30%).
References
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FOQUÉ, Richard, Building Knowledge in Architecture, University Press Antwerp, 2010
GASTÓN, Cristina y Teresa Rovira, El proyecto moderno, pautas de investigación, Ed. UPC, Barcelona.
GROAT, Linda y David Wang, Architectural research methods, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002
FANNELLI, Giovanni y Roberto Gargiani, El principio del revestimiento, Akal Arquitectura, Madrid, 1999.
FRAMPTON, Kenneth, Studies in tectonic culture, mit Press, 1995.
FULLAONDO, Juan Daniel, Composición de Lugar, la Arquitectura entre el arte y la ciencia, Hermann Blume, Madrid, 1990.
HEREU, Pere; MONTANER, Josep Maria; OLIVERAS, Jordi, Textos de arquitectura de la modernidad. Nerea. Madrid, 1994.
JENKS, Charles; Kropf, Karl, Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture, Academy editions, West Sussex, 1997.