General Theory of Architecture 1

Presentation

It is expected that the students, through exposure to the syllabus, to be able to re-conceptualize and verbalize in a precise and effective way their spatial and urban experience.
It is intended that students acquire critical and verbal skills to relate their new experiences in connection with the practice of architecture.

Programme

Architecture

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Semestral | 3

Year | Type of course unit | Language

1 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULP286-16145

Recommended complementary curricular units

• Projeto 1.1
• História da Arquitetura Antiga e Medieval 1

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

Scheme of units.

 1. Space City. Urban relations. Territory.
 2. Public Space. Nodes / buildings.
 3. Inhabit. The domestic space. The house.

Journeys

 To travel in order to learn how to see

Objectives

The aim of the course is to familiarize the student with the conceptual universe of discourse and the architectural discipline, through a broad and introductory exposure to the most basic ways of organizing space. Based on a series of journeys in space and time to discover cities, cultures, architecture, characters and ideas, the course will be an entry into the disciplinary universe of architecture.

 THEORY / PRAXIS
- Systems of thoughts
- Projection Methodology
- Transmissibility of knowledge

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The course is developed through lectures in which the teacher presents, discusses and contextualizes the issues under debate, followed by exercises in which students rehearse the basic skills for each subject. The course is expected to produce at the end an essay / drawing / presentation of one of the topics chosen by the student. Ongoing assessment will have a final weight of 70% validated with the partial exercise, the final test will have a 30% weighting in the final evaluation.

Tools.
1. The image / Word / The look
2. Fundamental texts of architecture.
3. Cultural Connections: painting, sculpture, music, dance, film.

Exercises.
1. Exercise analysis. 
2. Exercise reconstitution . 
3. Exercise analogy. 

The process of individual evaluation is made on a weekly and dynamic way, in which the student shows is worth through the way she or he conduct the personal research and evolve the critical reasoning on the various subjects.

References

Ábalos, Iñaki, La buena vida: visita guiada a las casas de la modernidad
Arnheim, Rudolf. La forma visual de la arquitectura.
Bachelard, Gaston, La poética del espacio, Breviarios.
Benévolo, L. & Melograni, C. & Giura Longo,T. La protyectación de la ciudad moderna.
Benevolo, Leonardo, La casa del l'uomo
Ching, Francis D.K., Arquitectura. Forma, espacio y orden.
Clark, Roger C. & Michael Pause. Arquitectura: temas de composición.
Hall, Peter. Ciudades del mañana.
Hanbury-Tenison, R. Los setenta grandes viajes de la historia.
Lynch, K. A boa forma da cidade.
Lynch, K. La imagen de la ciudad.
Mackay, David, The modern House
Moreno Mansilla , L. Apuntes de viaje al interior del tiempo.
Morris, A.E.J., Historia de la forma urbana.
Mumford, L. A cidade na historia, uas origens, transformações e perspectivas.
Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Intenciones en arquitectura.
Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Los princípios de la arquitectura moderna.

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