Seminar in Cultural Studies and Architecture l

Recommended Prerequisites

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

Teaching Methods

Two types of teaching methods will be provided:

1. An open master class given by Visiting Professor to be followed the next day by a seminar session. Doctoral students should develop an individual essay for the course (to be delivered at the end of the semester) over a proposed theme. A member of the unit’s staff will monitor work, on a tutorial basis, during the time of its completion.

2. Theoretical-practical lectures and seminars with each of the unit’s academic staff. Doctoral students should develop short time research works within the syllabus points of the Seminar.

Learning Outcomes

1. To promote a critical response on the part of doctoral candidates, to a current topic of research in the field of Cultural Studies and Architecture, placed by a Visiting Professor of relevant academic and scientific merit, during a conference open to the public and a seminar session with the students of the PhD program.

2. Moreover, the curricular unit aims 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 Cultural Studies and Architecture.

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

- Criteria in collecting information and research materials;

- Ability to develop critique and argumentation;

- Originality;

- Ability to clearly expose ideas;

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

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Part of the course corresponds to the release of a current topic in the field of research in Architectural and Cultural Studies, placed by a Visiting Professor of relevant academic and scientific merit, during a conference open to the public and further discussed during a seminar session with students of the PhD program. The syllabus is not, therefore, pre-defined and can be summarized to a cutting edge topic in the field’s scientific research.

2. On the other hand, it is intended to provide students with a critical, updated and expanded overview on topics and research methodologies in Architectural and Cultural Studies, according to the program guidelines presented by resident academic staff.

Syllabus:

a. Definition of the disciplinary field understood as Cultural Studies;

b. Addressing issues of architecture understood as Cultural Studies;

c. Design and contemporary experience; travel and architecture.

Head Lecturer(s)

Jorge Manuel Fernandes Figueira Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Continuous Assessment
1. A written essay on the theme proposed by the Visiting Professor. 2. Short research and systematization works within the thematic guidelines. Emphasis will be given to the: - Criteria in collecting information and research materials; - Ability to develop argumentation; - Originality; - Ability to clearly expose ideas; - Ability to write fluently and objectively.: 100.0%

Bibliography

AURELI, P. V., The Project of Autonomy, Politics and Architecture within and against Capitalism, Princeton, 2008.

BOURDIEU, P., The field of cultural production, Cambridge, 2004 [1993].

FOSTER, H., The return of the real: the avant-garde at the end of the century, Cambridge (Mass.)/ London, 1996.

HALL, S.; EVANS, J.; NIXON, S.; Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities series), Sage Publications (CA), 2013.

HAYS, K. M., Architecture’s desire, Reading the Late Avant-Garde, Cambridge (Mass.)/London, 2010.

HUYSSEN, A., After the great divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, Indiana University Press, 1986.

MOORE, R., Why we build, London, 2012.

MURPHY, D., The Architecture of Failure, Winchester (UK)/Washington (USA), 2012.

SORKIN, M., All over the Map, Writing on buildings and cities, London, 2011.

VIDLER, A., Histories of the Immediate Present, Inventing Architectural Modernism, Cambridge (Mass.)/London, 2008.