Introduction to the Architecture and to the City II

Year
1
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01014690
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

Introduction to the Architecture and to the City I.    

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 to the Architecture and to the City I and Introduction to to the Architecture and to the City 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, whose results spreads along territories and cities

Syllabus is established according to a structure divided by modules:

Rebuilding Purity, Element and System.

Architecture,industrial production, comerce and city

Architecture and urban network

Territories and cities, order and architecture

Architecture between the nostalgia of order and the harbinger of change

Avant garde and Manifestoes

Urban Reform between Wars

National monumentalism and representative architecture

The Role of the Masters

Internationalism and specificity

Pathways and contingencies of proximity

Preferably but not exclusively, the examples associated with these modules could fit within a time span which starts in Enlightment and ends nowadays.

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

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

 

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.

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

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

 

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

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

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

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.