Introduction to the Architecture and to the City I

Year
1
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01014684
Subject Area
Architecture
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
5.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures with multimedia projections.

Evaluation will focus on Group Work and Individual Work (one of each) about the themes addressed in the classes.

There will also be tests (one brief and one more thorough)

Only those who have a minimum grade in the test (9/20 or more) are allowed to make the final exam.

Learning Outcomes

In this first approach to Architecture, the students’ fundamental aim throughout the semester is to comprehend the space, in a generic way, by comprehending its organization, its composition and its cultural meanings.

The more specific aims the students must achieve by attending the curricular units of Introduction of Architectonic Culture I and Introduction to Architectonic Culture II are not completely autonomous from that and stand as direct tributaries although in complementarity with the other courses.

It seeks to stimulate the newly arrived students who are looking forward to deepening their knowledge, by enabling them to exercise grounded critique and to produce selective criteria for their own architectonic role models.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The syllabus addresses introductory issues of architectural culture, through outstanding examples of architectural history.  The field of study, Architecture,  is always presented simply and tangibly, as a material activity within a social and historical process. It is properly framed with related cultural events.  Subjects can be presented in a non diachronic sense, yet a general chronology is provided.

Syllabus is established according to a structure divided by modules:

 

Balance

Space and Scale

The Whole and the Parts

The Whole and the Commensurability

Materiality and Design

Timelessness and culture

Diacronic recapitulation

Timelessness and culture

Order and functionality

Art and Model

Project, vision and setting of the Rule.

Men and the cities

Unity and diffusion

Preferably but not exclusively, the examples associated with these modules could fit within a time span which starts in pre-classical eras and ends in the Baroque. 

Head Lecturer(s)

José António Oliveira Bandeirinha

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Group Work – 20%; Individual Work – 20%; Tests– 60%. The students who are not present in at least 75% of the classes do not meet the conditions to be evaluated: 100.0%

Bibliography

For what concerns eighteenth century and nineteenth century culture Tafuri and Dal Co e, and once again, Leonardo Benevolo. Occasionaly, when the subject specificity justifies, more focalized further reading will be requested, such a case is Anthony Vidler for the themes referring Illuminism and specially Claude-Nicolas Ledoux.

BENEVOLO, Leonardo, Introdução à Arquitectura, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1987.

BENEVOLO, Leonardo, Historia de la Arquitectura del Renacimiento, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1981 (2 Vols.).

BENEVOLO, Leonardo, Storia dell'Architettura Moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006.

KAUFMANN, Emil, De Ledoux a Le Corbusier: origen y desarrollo de la arquitectura autónoma, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1985.

LE CORBUSIER, Vers une architecture, Paris, Flammarion, 1995.

PEREIRA, Paulo [direcção de], História da Arte Portuguesa, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1995, 3 vol.s.

PEVSNER, Nikolaus, An Outline of European Architecture, Londres, Penguin Books, 1990 [11ª. Ed.].

ROSSI, Aldo, A Arquitectura da Cidade, Lisboa, Edições Cosmos, 1977.

SUMMERSON, Sir John, El lenguaje clásico de la arquitectura: De L. B. Alberti a Le Corbusier, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1984 [7ª ed.].

TAFURI, Manfredo, DAL CO, Francesco, Architettura Contemporanea, Milano, Electa Editrice, 1979 (2 Vols.).

TÁVORA, Fernando, Da organização do espaço, Porto, FAUP Publicacões, 1996.

Para as matérias referentes às culturas clássica e pré-clássica serão selecionados, entre outros, exemplos pertinentes a uma matriz historiográfica mais estabilizada, Benevolo, Pevsner, Summerson e, claro está, Távora. Para as matérias referentes às culturas medievais, renascentistas e barrocas, David Watkin e, de novo, Benevolo. Para o que diz respeito à cultura oitocentista e novecentista, Tafuri e Dal Co e, mais uma vez, Leonardo Benevolo. Pontualmente, e quando a especifidade da matéria assim o sugere, serão convocadas leituras mais focalizadas, como no caso de Anthony Vidler para os temas referentes ao Iluminismo e, em especial, a Claude-Nicolas Ledoux.

Some pertinent examples will be selected for the subjects related to classic and pre-classic culture, concerning a more stable historiographical array, Benevolo, Pevsner, Summerson and, obviously, Távora. David Watkin and, again, Benevolo, for the subjects referring medieval, renaissantist and baroque cultures.

VIDLER, Anthony, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution, Basel-Berlin-Boston, Birkháuser, 2006.

WATKIN, David, A History of Western Architecture, London, LawrenceKing Publ., 2005

ZEVI, Bruno, História da arquitectura moderna [com prefácio e um estudo sobre a evolução da arquitectura moderna em Portugal por Nuno Portas], Lisboa, Arcádia, 1970-1973.