History of Architecture I

Recommended Prerequisites

1st Cycle completed.   

Teaching Methods

The weekly lectures, of two hours each, will expose the course subject using PowerPoint and through drawing on the blackboard. Students are encouraged to put questions and discussion will be encouraged.

Theoretical-Practical classes, of one hour, will be dedicated to monitoring the development of practical work, prepared by groups of 4 to 6 students each. The theme will focus on a building, an architectural compound or an urban organism, and will be developed over the semester.

Learning Outcomes

History of Architecture I favors the study of architectural objects, both religious and civil, of the European Middle Ages and of the first Renaissance. It also favors the study of the urban and rural environments in which they were sited.

The aim of the course is to provide students with relevant aspects of the great styles of the Middle Ages (Romanesque and Gothic), through the intrinsic relation between construction technique and formal expression, seeking to identify the main lines of continuity and disruption.

On the other hand, the course aims to address the major social and cultural changes occurring in the transition from medieval to modern times and its implications for Architecture, especially with regard to professional performance and to the critical transition from master-builder to architect.

These issues are considered of fundamental understanding for the student of architecture and for the identification of Architecture as an autonomous and complex discipline.   

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.Foreword: Pre-Romanesque architectures.

2.Early Romanesque architecture in Germany, France and Lombardy and Catalonia.

3.Pilgrimage architectures: the Camino de Santiago.

4.The monastic structures: Benedictines and Cistercians.

5.Gothic Architecture. The emergence of Gothic in Île de Freance.

6.The great French cathedrals.

7.The medieval city and the building of cathedrals. The Rayonnant Style.

8.Florence and the first Renaissance architecture. Filippo Brunneleschi.

9.The rehabilitation of Vitruvius and Alberti’s new treatise. The albertian theory of the city.

10.Filarete, Milan and Francesco Sforza’s Court. The “Ideal City” of the Renaissance.   

Head Lecturer(s)

Carolina da Graça Cúrdia Lourenço Coelho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Evaluation will be done through normal and/or appeal examination, the best classification of which will be worth 75% of the final grade. Parallel participation in research group work, which is mandatory, will be valued at 25% of the individual final grade, through the elaboration of a final report. : 100.0%

Bibliography

Arquitetura Medieval:

BRAUNFELS, Wolfgang, Monasteries of Western Europe: the architecture of the orders, Londres, Thames & Hudson, 1972.

CONANT, Kenneth J., Arquitectura Carolingia y Románica 800/1200, Madrid, Cátedra, 1982.

NORBERG-SCHULZ, Christian, La Signification dans l’Architecture Occidentale (1974), Liège, Mardaga, 6ª ed., 1977.

WILSON, Christopher, The Gothic Cathedral, Londres, Thames & Hudson, 1992.

 

Primeiro Renascimento:

ALBERTI, Leon Battista, Da Arte Edificatória (tradução de Arnaldo do Espírito Santo; introdução, notas e revisão de Mário Krüger), Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2011.

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

TAVARES, Domingos, Filippo Brunneleschi. O arquitecto, Porto, Dafne, 2003.

TAVARES, Domingos, Leon Battista Alberti. Teoria da arquitectura, Porto, Dafne, 2004.

TRAVERNOR, Robert, On Alberti and the art of building, New Haven/London, Yale University Press, 1998.