Urbanism Architecture and Tourism

Recommended Prerequisites

Project, Architecture History, Architecture Theory.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical lectures based on the detailed exposition of the fundamental concepts in discussion and the critical analysis of selected case studies, leading to the elaboration of a final synthesis project. The assessment consists of an individual exam with a weight of 60% on the final grade and of a group work with the weight of 40%.

Learning Outcomes

Urbanism Architecture and Tourism reflects upon the influence of leisure in contemporary society and territory. Leisure that is at the origin of one of the most significant and complex phenomenons of the last century, with impact at different levels, from cultural to economic, the urban to the architectural: Tourism. The aim of this reflection is the development of instrumental and interpretive skills associated with the practice of Architecture, by confronting a more analytical dimension - theoretical component - with the development of a critical discourse focused on the present circumstance - practical component
The learning outcomes focus on the improvement of individual competencies in the
1.Organization of expertise related to the process of planning and building the territory
2. Research, classification and synthesis of data
3. Analysis of case studies and their critical discussion
4. Practical application of theoretical knowledge in the construction of an independent reasoning.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The syllabus is structured by different units of approach to the subject, organized according to a diachronical view of the contents being discussed. In a first moment, the focus is on the emergence of the tourism phenomenon and its territorial translation, a process in which Architecture and Urban Planning play a relevant role as mechanisms of localization and spatial construction of leisure time. In a second moment, we witnesses the massification of tourist practices in consequence of the growing democratization of paid holidays and of the access to means of transport. Extended to a global scale, Tourism fuels the exploitation of places as products, in which image and identity work as distinctive values. In this new context, Architecture and Urban Planning assume a different protagonism, presenting, on the one hand, themselves as tourism attractions and, on the other, as a guarantee of the visual and spatial quality of the environments created for tourist use and consumption.

Head Lecturer(s)

Susana Luísa Mexia Lobo

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Research work: 40.0%
Exam: 60.0%

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