Theory of Architecture 3.1

Presentation

The program of this U.C.  aims to provide students with knowledge enabling them to understand and develop critical thinking about the relationship between public space (collective buildings) with history, technology and architectural culture.

Programme

Architecture

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Semestral | 3

Year | Type of course unit | Language

4 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULP286-16158

Recommended complementary curricular units

N/A

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

The course will have, in addition to the use of instrumental components of the discipline, a strong analytic and argumentative reflection component, focusing on the systematic study of architecture and its public space, developing a program of classes around the  groups of subjects related to public spaces and forms of equipments.

Objectives

The program and objectives of this U.C. aims to raise students interest in the theoretical movements, compositional discourses and architectural languages that marked, throughout the twentieth century, the materialization and thinking about the architecture collective buildings through its  public spaces as equipments.The program of this U.C. also aims to provide students with knowledge that enable them to understand and develop methods of analysis regarding the relationship between theory and design practice, between concepts and their formal and spatial materialization, through spaces of public use and their specific constraints whose practical development takes place in the discipline of project 4.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The course unfolds through classes that contextualize and questions the issues under debate by analyzing case studies in which students present their critically argumentative reflection. The student is expected to produce in the end a written essay articulated, reasoned according to the criteria of analysis and disciplinary synthesis. This essay and presentation in class will be the objects of evaluation. Assessment is continuous, without any kind of exam constituting the matter of evaluation, the exercises and written works as well as individual presentation and attendance. Due to Covid 19 and to the department directives the classes and evaluation are online.

References

Choay, Françoise. (2003). Espacements. (1ª edição 1969). Milano: Skira.

Colomina, Beatriz (1994). Privacy and Publicity. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Duby, Georges (ed.) (1987-1991). A history of private life. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Univeristy Press.

Loos, Adolf (1972) Ornamento y delito y otros escritos. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili.

Rossi, Aldo (1966). The architecture of the city. Padova: Marsillio.

Rybczynski, Witold (1986). Home: a short history of an idea. New York: Viking.

Meiss, P. (2006). Elements of Architecture ¿ from form to place. New York: Spon Press

Montaner, Josep Maria (2002). As formas do século XX. Barcelona:Gustavo Gili.

Venturi, Robert (1966). Complexidade e contradição em arquitectura (2004). Lisboa: Martins Fontes.

Vários. El Croquis, revista de arquitectura, Madrid, Graficas Palermo y DLH

Publicações diversas sobre o temas dos casos estudo ( bibliografia secundária )

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