Architecture and the City

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures with multimedia projections.

Evaluation will focus on Group Work and Individual Work (one of each) about the themes addressed in the classes.

There will also be a midterm test.

Only those who have a minimum grade in the test (9/20 or more) are allowed to make the final exam.

The relative weight of each of the components for final evaluation is as follows:

Group Work – 20%;

Individual Work – 40%;

Exam– 40%.

Learning Outcomes

In this first approach to Architecture, the students’ fundamental aim throughout the semester is to understand the space, in a generic way, by understanding its organization, its composition and its cultural meanings. In this context, the question of the city plays, as it always has, a fundamental role. Given the challenges today’s world is facing, the objectives are therefore to understand the role of the city in the contemporary world. To this purpose, we propose to study it from an ontological, cultural, social and political point of view and verify its real potential and the threats it faces today. Through the approach of propaedeutic themes of urban culture and the study of significant examples of the history of Architecture and the City, The aim is to motivate incoming students to deepen their knowledge, enabling them to exercise reasoned criticism, on the one hand, and to generate selective criteria for their professional future, on the other.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The syllabus addresses introductory issues of architectural culture, through outstanding examples of architectural history. The subject of study, the city, is always presented, in a simple and tangible way, as human habitat inserted in a historical and social process. It is duly framed with the cultural manifestations that are associated with it. In this sense, although a general chronology is provided to align the data sequentially, subjects can be presented in a non diachronic sense.

Syllabus is established according to a structure divided by modules:

The City in Pre-Classical Period

The City in the Classic Age

Urban reforms of the 15th century

Restoration of Purity, Element and System

Industrial production, commerce and the city

Metropolis, suburb and organisation of production

Vanguards and Manifestos

Urban Reform between Wars

Internationalisms and specificities

Paths and contingencies of proximity

The ontological crisis, new challenges for the city.

Head Lecturer(s)

Carolina da Graça Cúrdia Lourenço Coelho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Group Work : 20.0%
Exam: 40.0%
Individual Work : 40.0%

Bibliography

AURELI, Pier Vittorio (Ed.), The City as a Project, Berlin, Ruby Press, 2013.

BANDEIRINHA, J.A., CORREIA, L.M., MOTA, Nelson (Ed.). Joelho. 8. Ideas and Practices for the European City. 2017.

BENEVOLO, Leonardo, As Origens da Urbanística Moderna, Lisboa, Presença, 1994.

BENEVOLO, Leonardo, The European City, London, Wiley Blackwell,1998.

BERGDOLL, Barry, European Architecture 1750-1890, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

MUMFORD, Lewis, A Cidade na História: suas origens, transformações e perspectivas, São Paulo, Martins Fontes, 1998 [1ª ed. 1961].

ROSSI, Aldo, A Arquitectura da Cidade, Lisboa, Edições Cosmos, 1977 [1ª. ed. 1966].

TAFURI, Manfredo, DAL CO, Francesco, Architettura Contemporanea, Milano, Electa Editrice, 1979 (2 Vols.).

TÁVORA, Fernando, Da organização do espaço, Porto, FAUP Publicações, 1996.