Seminar in Urban Culture and Design ll

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge of Portuguese language and at least one foreign language, preferably English.

Teaching Methods

There will be theoretical-practical lectures and seminars with each of the unit’s academic staff.

These sessions of theoretical-practical lectures and seminars will happen in April and May.

Doctoral students should develop in relatively short time (over the four-week interval between each set of classes on the same guideline theme) research work within the syllabus points of the Seminar.

The unit coordinator will monitor work, on a tutorial basis, during the time of its completion.

Learning Outcomes

The curricular unit aims to continue the previous Seminar in Urban Culture and Design and to provide doctoral students with an updated and comprehensive overview of the most relevant scientific research, recently developed in Portugal and abroad, in the field of Urban Culture and Design.

An account will be given on relevant doctoral theses, recent or ongoing research projects, the most important publications, new research methodologies.

Another objective of the curricular unit is to allow doctoral students to get to know the faculty and the individual interests of each teacher in view of selecting a potential supervisor for the dissertation.

Emphasis will be given to the development of the following skills:

- Criteria in collecting information and research materials;

- Ability to develop critical reasoning and argumentation;

- Originality;

- Ability to clearly expose ideas;

- Ability to write fluently and objectively in Portuguese or English.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Urban Culture and Design: analysis of successive “urban architectures" juxtapositions (in space and time), based on the concepts of "palimpsest" (urban sedimentation) and "hypertext" (urban simultaneity).

2. The Design Polis: The role of architecture in the political conquest of urban space, based on the notions of "right to the city" and the "right to housing".

3. The Urban Utopias.

4. City, Landscape and Territory: the evolution of the concept of "landscape" in the face of political and spatial transformations of cities and territories.

5. The City of the XXI Century: following the crisis of Modern urbanism (in its internationalist and functionalist condition), and the results of Post-modern urban experiences (in their specific and contextual approach), it is important to reanalyze the concepts of public space, citizenship, security, fairness, wellness, sustainability, social capital and territorial cohesion, taking into account the contemporary cities regeneration processes.

Head Lecturer(s)

Nuno Alberto Leite Rodrigues Grande

Assessment Methods

Continuous Assessment
Evaluation will focus on research and systematization work, within the seminar guidelines. Emphasis will be given to the assessment of the following skills: - Criteria in collecting information and research materials; - Ability to develop critical reasoning and argumentation; - Originality; - Ability to clearly expose ideas; - Ability to write fluently and objectively in Portuguese or English.: 100.0%

Bibliography

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BANDEIRINHA, J. A. (2007), O Processo SAAL e a Arquitectura no 25 de Abril de 1974. Coimbra.

BOHIGAS, O. (1969), Contra una Arquitectura Adjetivada. Barcelona.

CORBOZ, A. (2001), Le Territoire comme palimpseste et autres essais, Besançon.

EUCHNER, C, (2003) Urban Policy Reconsidered. New York.

GRANDE, N. (ed.) (2012), O Ser Urbano. Nos caminhos de Nuno Portas. Guimarães.

GREGOTTI, V. (1994), O Território da Arquitectura (1968). São Paulo.

HALL, P. (2002) Cidades do Amanhã. S. Paulo: Perspetiva SA.

JACOBS, J. (1961), The death and life of great American cities. New York.

KOOLHAAS, R. (1997), Delirious New York (1978). London.

MORRIS, A.E.J. (1994), History of Urban Form. London.

ROSSI, A. (1982), La Arquitectura de la Ciudad (1966). Barcelona.

SOLA-MORALES, M. (1997), Formas del crecimiento urbano. Barcelona.

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