History of Portuguese Architecture I

Recommended Prerequisites

1st Cycle completed.

Teaching Methods

The weekly lectures, of two hours each, will expose the course subject using PowerPoint and hand drawings on the blackboard. The vertical and chronological approach will be often crossed with other readings and interpretations associated with building types and the authorship of the works.

A study trip in the middle of the semester is considered.

Practical classes, also of two hours each, will be dedicated to monitoring practical work, prepared by groups of 4 to 6 students each. It will have a building, an architectural compound or an urban organism as a theme, developed over the semester

Learning Outcomes

The aim of the curricular unit of History of Portuguese Architecture is to understand and to discuss the specificities of Portuguese architecture.

One aims to understand how the particular conditions of the land and society had an influence on the organization of space and on the building forms, vis-à-vis with the ever-present models of international architecture. Contrary to what is sometimes usual, one doesn´t look up to architectural manifestations of what is equal to other central contexts of Europe, but rather to other which are least known and most particular.

The ultimate goal is to provide the future architects with a solid cultural basis that allows them to be capable of a critical and well informed intervention - increasingly requested - on the built heritage bequeathed to us.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Foreword: what is Portuguese Architecture?

1. Architectural expressions of the western Iberian Peninsula before the founding of Portugal.

2. Romanesque architecture.

3. Gothic architecture.

4. Late Gothic architecture.

Head Lecturer(s)

Rui Pedro Mexia Lobo

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

ALMEIDA,C.A. Ferreira de, O Românico, Lisboa, Presença, 2001

ALMEIDA,C.A. Ferreira de, BARROCA, M. J., O Gótico, Lisboa, Presença, 2002

Boletim da D.G.E.M.N., nºs 1-130, 1935-1985

CHICÓ, M.Tavares, A arquitectura gótica em Portugal, 2ª edição, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 1968

COSTA,A. Alves, Introdução ao estudo da História da Arquitectura Portuguesa, Porto, FAUP, 1995

História da Arte em Portugal, vols 1 a 4, Lisboa, Alfa, 1986

História da Arte Portuguesa, dir. Paulo Pereira, vol. 1, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1995

PEREIRA, Paulo, Arte Portuguesa.História essencial, Círculo de Leitores, 2011

REAL, Manuel, “A organização do espaço arquitectónico entre Beneditinos e Agostinhos no século XII”, Arqueologia, nº 6, Porto, 1983

SANTOS, Reynaldo dos, O Românico em Portugal, Lisboa, Ed. Sul, 1955

SILVA,J.C. Vieira da, O Tardo-Gótico em Portugal, a arquitectura no Alentejo,Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 1989

VASCONCELOS, Joaquim de, ABREU, Marques, Arte românica em Portugal, Porto, 1918.