Environmental and Space Organisation (EaD)

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The methodology followed consists of: (1) individual contact and reflection on study materials (2) sharing of reflection and study among the students, (3) clarification of doubts in the forums moderated by the teacher-mentors, and (4) completion of the proposed activities.

Learning Outcomes

The course addresses issues of culture and organization of architectural space. It focuses on the understanding that they are essential to address the phenomena of population density and urban sprawl. Promotes clarification procedures required between the natural and built environment, creating operational bases that allow the overcoming of the misconceptions commonly associated with sustainable prosperity and development. Introduces the need to use sustainable design strategies in cities.

O1. Knowing the concepts and steps of the history of sustainable development;

O2. Justifying the integration of environmental strategies, as a conceptual paradigm, in the drawings of urban space and architecture;

O3. Experiencing the complexity of the processes of adaptation and mitigation to climate changes;

O4. Justifying an imperative inclusion of sustainable design strategies in the early stages of architectural design;

O5. Recognizing methodologies and multi-scale approach to urban conception.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

-Sustainable development and the emergence of new paradigms
-From the diffuse city (zwischenstadt) to the environmental city
-Shared city (accessibilities  and urban mobilities)
-Re-natured city and healthy city
-Creative city (creative classes) and inclusive city (formal, informal and conflictual)
-Memory and identity in cities

Assessment Methods

Continuous assessment
This course unit adopts the continuous assessment model, and the final classification of the students is the result of the work developed throughout the course (namely, participation in the forums and the performance of evaluation activities). The final classification of each student will be expressed in a scale of 0 - 20 points: 100.0%

Bibliography

BANHAM, Reyner, The architecture of the well-tempered environment, London, The Architectural Press, 1984.

BANHAM, Reyner, Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies, Los Angeles, Harper and Row, 1971.

BORJA, Jordi, La Ciudad Conquistada, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2003.

FRAMPTON, Keneth, Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture. MIT Press, 2001.

KWINTER, Stanford, Architectures of Time. Towards a Theory of Event in Modernist Culture, MIT Press, 2002.