History of Architecture II

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 Modern Age, from the first Renaissance to the Enlightenment. It also favors the study of the urban environments in which they were sited. Behind artifacts, lies one of the specificities of the History of Architecture: to notice how the architect, corresponding to the ideologies of each period and using the material means of the time, was able to deal with the problem and with its solution.

The aim of the course is to provide students with relevant aspects of the phenomenon of continuous renewal and reinvention of classical culture, seeking to point out the main lines of continuity and rupture. This is 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. Bramante

2. The rebuilding of St. Peter's in Rome

3. Michelangelo

4. Mannerism. Peruzzi, Giulio Romano and the treatise of Sebastiano Serlio.

5. Palladio

6. Classicism in France, Spain and England

7. The Baroque: Bernini and Borromini

8. Le Grand Siècle: works of the reign of Louis XIV

9. Architectural culture in France in the eighteenth century

10. Boullée and Ledoux: architecture of the French Enlightenment and the invention of a new architectural language.

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

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

SUMMERSON, Sir John, El lenguaje clásico de la arquitectura, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1984 (7ªed).

MONTCLOS, Jean-Marie Pérouse de, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Paris, Flammarion, 1994.

SERLIO, Sebastiano, Tercero y cuarto libro de Arquitectura, Barcelona, Editorial Alta Fulla (ed. Fac-similada de 1552).

TAVARES, Domingos, Francesco Borromini. Dinâmicas da arquitectura, Porto, Dafne, 2004.

TAVARES, Domingos, Donato Bramante. Arquitectura da ilusão, Porto, Dafne, 2007.

TAVARES, Domingos, Andrea Palladio. A grande Roma, Porto, Dafne, 2008.

TAVARES, Domingos, Michelangelo. Aprendizagem da arquitectura, Porto, Dafne, 2012.

VIDLER, Anthony, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: architecture and utopia in the era of the French revolution, Basel, Birkhauser, 2006.

WATKIN, David, A History of Western Architecture, Londres, Lawrence King Publishers, 2005 (4ªed).