History of Portuguese Architecture II

Year
4
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
02027932
Subject Area
Architecture
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

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. The vertical and chronological approach will be often crossed with other readings and interpretations associated with building types, constructive aspects and the authorship of the works.

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

Practical classes, also of two hours each, will be dedicated to monitoring the development of 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.

We will also address the architecture produced by the Portuguese outside Portugal.

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. The architecture of the Portuguese in the context of the expansion: the islands and overseas territories as locations for the synthesis of Portuguese architecture.

5. Manueline architecture.

6. Renaissance architecture.

7. The architecture of the Counter-reformation and of the Spanish dominance. Portuguese architecture in India.

8. Architecture of the Restoration and Baroque architecture in Portugal and Brasil.

9. Pombaline and Neoclassical architecture.

(The program of History of Portuguese Architecture II establishes continuity with the program of History of Portuguese Architecture I, so the numbering follows the latter.

Head Lecturer(s)

Rui Pedro Mexia Lobo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The evaluation will be made by normal and appeal exam, and the best classification will be worth 75% of the final classification. At the same time, participation in group work is mandatory, with delivery of the final report, valued at 25% of the individual classification final: 100.0%

Bibliography

CORREIA, J.E. Horta, Arquitectura Portuguesa. Renascimento, maneirismo, estilo chão, Lisboa, Presença, 1991.

CRAVEIRO, M. de Lurdes, A Arquitectura “ao Romano”, Lisboa, Fubu, 2009.

FRANÇA, J. Augusto, Lisboa Pombalina e o Iluminismo, Lisboa, Bertrand, 1987.

GOMES, P. Varela, 14,5 ensaios de história da arquitectura, Coimbra, Almedina, 2007.

História da Arte em Portugal, vols 5 a 9, Lisboa, Alfa, 1986.

História da Arte Portuguesa, dir. Paulo Pereira, vols. 2 e 3, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1995.

KUBLER, George, Arquitectura portuguesa Chã, 1521-1706 (1972), Lisboa, Vega, 1988.

LOBO, Rui, Santa Cruz e a Rua da Sofia, Coimbra, Edarq, 2006.

MATTOSO, José, Património de origem portuguesa no mundo: arquitectura e urbanismo, Lisboa, FCG, 4 vols, 2010-2011.

PEREIRA, Paulo, A obra silvestre e a esfera do rei, Coimbra, IHA-FLUC, 1990.

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

SOROMENHO, Miguel, A Arquitectura do Ciclo Filipino, Lisboa, Fubu, 2009.