The Portuguese City

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012654
Subject Area
Hostory of Art
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and practical classes. The theoretical concepts are always accompanied by the display of images supporting periods of reflection and debate in which critical thinking is encouraged. The subjects learned in the classroom will be complemented by study visits, enhancing the ability to read and decipher the "active past" in the contemporary city.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit intends to provide the student with a comprehensive and contextualized knowledge of the formation, evolution and successive transformations of the Portuguese city, including the understanding, in a critically approach, of the relationship between the international context and its possible specificity. Beyond the familiarity with the most relevant and updated bibliography, students are required to achieve a comprehensive knowledge of the various sources and tools available for urban studies (cartography, iconography, photography, orthophotomaps, archeology data, written documents, etc.).

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The program focuses on two major themes/moments: the Middle Ages, time of formation and consolidation of the "core identity" (historical centers) of the majority of Portuguese cities; the "Portuguese school of urbanism," reinforcing a reading of continuity that from the late Middle Ages leads to the high point of the reconstruction of eighteenth-century Lisbon.

 

theme 1

The background: from the Hispano-Roman city to the Islamic occupation of the territory.

The Reconquest and the construction of a the portuguese urban net.

Elements of medieval townscape.

Governing the city: the contact with written scources.

The city in the transition from the 15th century to the 16th. The emergence of centrality.

 

theme 2

Restoration (1640) and the "Portuguese school of urbanism."

The urbanization of Brazil.

Lisbon in the reign of D. João V;

The 1755 earthquake and reconstruction of Lisbon.

The Oport of Almadas;

Vila Real de Santo António;

The Reformation of the University of Coimbra (1772)

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Luísa Pires do Rio Carmo Trindade

Assessment Methods

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous evaluation
Mini Tests: 100.0%

Bibliography

ANDRADE, A., A construção medieval do Território, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 2001
ARAUJO, R., As Cidades da Amazónia no século XVIII, Porto, FAUP, 1998
CARITA, H., Lisboa Manuelina e a formação de modelos urbanísticos da Época Moderna (1495-1521), Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 1999
CORREIA, J. H., Vila Real de Santo António, Urbanismo e Poder na Política Pombalina, Porto, FAUP, 1997
FERRÃO, B., Projecto e transformação urbana do Porto na época dos Almadas, 1785-1813, Porto, Faup,1997
FRANÇA, J. A., Lisboa Pombalina e o Iluminismo, Lisboa, Bertrand, 1983
GONÇALVES, I., Um Olhar sobre a Cidade Medieval, Cascais, Patrimonia,1996
ROSSA, W., A urbe e o traço, Coimbra, Almedina, 2002.
Monumentos 21, Lisboa, DGEMN, 2004
TRINDADE, L., “Reforma Pombalina”, Monumentos, 8, Lisboa, DGEMN, 1998
TRINDADE, L. A casa corrente em Coimbra. Dos finais da Idade Média aos inicíos da Época Moderna, Coimbra, 2002
TRINDADE, L., Urbanismo na composição de Portugal, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade, 2013