History of Modern Architecture promotes the study of ideas and their evolution to delineate architecture from the Renaissance to the Modern Movement from Europe to the world, and encourages the cross-checking of knowledge from various scientific areas to understand architectural interpretation and design through dismantling reference works both in the classroom and on site visits.
Programme
Architecture
Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS
| Semestral | 3
Year | Type of course unit | Language
2
|Mandatory
|Português
Code
ULP286-14456
Recommended complementary curricular units
N/A.
Professional Internship
Não
Syllabus
1.Baroque architecture
1.1.Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: political and cultural contextualization
1.2.The complexity of baroque art
1.3.Baroque architecture in Rome in the seventeenth century: churches and palaces
1.4.The baroque tratadística
1.5.Italian baroque: the experiences in Venice, Turin and Naples
1.6.The diffusion of the Italian baroque in Europe
1.7.Baroque city and architecture: continuity and articulation
1.8.Baroque in France
1.9.Palatial architecture: the example of Versailles and its influence in eighteenth-century Europe
1.10.Baroque in the Germanic countries
1.11.Baroque in Spain
1.12.Baroque in "New World": the experience in Brazil
1.13.Rococo art: the question of ornament
1.14.Baroque and rococo: two languages in dialogue or confrontation?
2.Neoclassical architecture
2.1.Historical-cultural context in the second half of the 7th Century.
2.2.Neoclassicism: antecedents and origin of neoclassical aesthetics.
2.3. The international character
Objectives
Provide an integrated perspective of the main architectural achievements of the modern era;
Identify the main architectural typologies and spatial solutions and understand their evolution over the period studied;
Framing the architectural experiences in the political, social and ideological contexts of his time;
Relate forms with their religious and civil functions;
Understand the importance of artistic techniques and materials in baroque and neoclassical architecture;
To relate the development of the architecture with the tratadística in the modern era.
Teaching methodologies and assessment
The course aims to expose the content of the program, through theoretical classes supported by audiovisual materials that illustrate the subject, and practical classes, where practical work will be developed and monitored.
The evaluation will be continuous.
CRITERIA:
A1 - Scheduling compliance;
A2 - Assiduity;
A3 - Student Interest;
A4 - Participation of the student;
A5 - Theoretical Capacity;
A6 - Creative Ability to Argument;
A7 - Ability to present written knowledge;
A8 - Ability to present orally, acquired knowledge;
A9 - Graphic presentation of the works;
A10 - Research Capacity.
A11 - Application in the class of acquired knowledge.
B - Frequency (written evaluation).
C - Research work.
Group A criteria correspond to 20%, Group B corresponds to 40% and Group C corresponds to 40% of the evaluation.
Estimated 2 assessment moments: a written exercise and a research paper.
References
BENEVOLO, Leonardo (1982), Deseño de la Ciudad. El arte y la ciudad moderna del siglo XV al XVIII. Barcelona: Gustavo Gilli.
BENEVOLO, Leonardo (1999), Historia de la Arquitectura Moderna, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili.
FAGIOLO, Marcello e PORTOGHESI, Paolo (orgs.); Roma Barroca. Bernini, Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l¿Immagine di Roma: Mondadori ElectaSpA., 2006
