Theory of Architecture I

Category: Discipline
  • ANDERSON, Chris, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, Wired June, 2008. AURELI, Pier Vittorio, “How We Became Architects”, The City as a Project, August 7, 2017. CARPO, Mario, Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. COLOMINA, Beatriz, Manifesto Architecture: The Gost of Mies. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014. KOOLHAAS, Rem, MAU, Bruce, S,M,L,XL. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995. LEACH, Neil, A Anestética da Arquitectura. Lisboa: Antígona , 2005 (1999). OCKMAN, Joan, “Slashed,” History/Theory. e-flux Architecture, October 27, 2017. RATTENBURY, Kester (ed.), This is Not Architecture: Media Constructions. London: Routledge, 2002. STEYERL, Hito, “In Defense of the Poor Image,” e-flux Journal 10. November, 2009. WIGLEY, Mark, “Story-Time”, Assemblage 27 (August 1995): 80-94.
  • Architecture
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  • Não
  • Português
  • In accordance with the reflective and exploratory nature of the Curricular Unit, students are invited to participate in all classes either through more direct answers to specific questions or through reflections that emerge from the ongoing discussion - hence attendance at classes is mandatory. Speech, writing and photography will be used, in order to equip the student with instruments capable of enhancing critical judgment and reflective capacity in relation to the issues/themes discussed throughout the semester. The monitoring of exercises may be individual or collective.
  • Mandatory
  • For architectural theory to maintain its relevance, it must maintain its historical significance as observation (the¿ria) and theater (theã). While the former grants the observer a certain agency over the object seen, the latter transfers that agency to the means (or medium) of framing, performance, and/or visualization. It is in this sense that the aim is for students to become familiar with the range of tools available to architects. They should be able to read, understand, analyze, and interpret texts and images and, in turn, be able to translate their own reflections on a given subject through texts and images. It is also intended that they be able to discuss, debate, and defend their positions through articulate, well-argued and justified discourse, demonstrated through consistent, clear, and objective examples, with a rigorous, coherent and logical structure of reasoning.
  • DAAD - Department of Architecture, Arts and Design
  • The CU is divided into different questions that seek to characterize and interrogate the definition and the limits of the discipline. What is architectural theory, architecture, architect, discipline, originality, history, oeuvre, criticism, investigation, profession, canon and teaching will be some of the guiding questions. Simultaneously, for each interrogation, a dissecting instrument: theory, treaty, drawing, speech, essay, photography, manifesto, diagram, project, narrative and archive. Necessarily, as a support to the disassembly exercise, there is a set of contents and authors that are addressed. However, its use, privileging different geographies, genres and cultures, will not be so much as programmatic content, but as examples that prove or disprove certain positions, approaches or possible interpretations. Obviously, given the infinity of possible answers, a definitive solution, or even a consensus, is not sought for each question.
  • Semestral
  • In etymological terms, theory, from the Greek the¿ria or the¿ros, means to look at, see, contemplate, but also, consider, speculate. It is a point of view, a perspective on things, their description and, of course, an attempt to understand them, to give them meaning. In general terms, theory can be defined as a way of seeing, understanding, explaining and clarifying events or objects. Theory is also a way of questioning assumptions, present realities and the way in which discourse is formed and maintained. Its task is to make sense of the world and form intelligible narratives, orienting from the particular to the universal through abstraction. It is through the articulation between the abstract and the concrete that theory has the capacity to act, in contrast, for example, with philosophy. This is the capacity that allows theory to be an instrument of intervention, and of change, in a rapidly changing world. Theory is a way of thinking and acting.

In etymological terms, theory, from the Greek the¿ria or the¿ros, means to look at, see, contemplate, but also, consider, speculate. It is a point of view, a perspective on things, their description and, of course, an attempt to understand them, to give them meaning. In general terms, theory can be defined as a way of seeing, understanding, explaining and clarifying events or objects. Theory is also a way of questioning assumptions, present realities and the way in which discourse is formed and maintained. Its task is to make sense of the world and form intelligible narratives, orienting from the particular to the universal through abstraction. It is through the articulation between the abstract and the concrete that theory has the capacity to act, in contrast, for example, with philosophy. This is the capacity that allows theory to be an instrument of intervention, and of change, in a rapidly changing world. Theory is a way of thinking and acting.

Constructions II

Category: Discipline
  • Deplazes, A. (Ed.). (2022). Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures. A Handbook (4th ed.). Basel: Birkhäuser. Allen, E., & Iano, J. (2019). Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Ching, F. D. K., & Adams, C. (2020). Building Construction Illustrated (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Neufert, E., & Neufert, P. (2012). Arte de projetar em arquitetura (39.ª ed.). Barcelona: Gustavo Gili. Givoni, B. (1998). Climate Considerations in Building and Urban Design. New York: Wiley.  
  • Architecture
  • 367
  • 4
  • Não
  • Português
  • M1: Theoretical-practical sessions Conceptual and technical framing of P1-P6. M2: Laboratory sessions Progressive development of the exercise at different scales. M3: Interim critique sessions Technical discussion and feedback (1.1 and 1.2). M4: Guided independent work Technical development of drawings and models. M5: Individual detail development Technical deepening during phase 1.3.
  • Mandatory
  • By the end of the semester, students should achieve the following outcomes: O1: Understand architecture as a tectonic practice, articulating functional, constructive, infrastructural and environmental dimensions. O2: Apply technical knowledge in defining the building envelope, verifying thermal transmittance coefficients and integrating passive strategies. O3: Develop skills in coordinating constructive and infrastructural systems. O4: Translate architectural decisions into rigorous, technically consistent and feasible constructive solutions.
  • DAAD - Department of Architecture, Arts and Design
  • P1: Architecture as tectonic practice Articulation between material, technique and space. P2: Organisation of habitable space in extreme climate Relationship between brief, site and environmental performance. P3: Climatic data analysis (EPW) Technical interpretation supporting constructive decisions. P4: Building envelope Constructive systems and verification of thermal transmittance coefficients. P5: Bioclimatic strategies Principles of passive construction and energy reduction. P6: Infrastructural systems Energy production, storage and water management. P7: Technical development at different scales 1:20 (organisation), 1:10 (detailing), 1:2 (constructive detail). P8: Execution design Definition of constructive details and rigorous representation.
  • Semestral
  • Construction 02, offered in the second year of the Architecture programme, belongs to the field of Architectural Technology. It focuses on construction as an integrated technical system, articulating materiality, structure, infrastructure, environmental performance and execution. The course builds upon Construction 01, shifting from the analysis of constructive elements to their integration within a complete architectural object. The main exercise consists of the technical and execution design of a habitable capsule in an extreme climate, addressing the building envelope, passive strategies and infrastructural systems. The course consolidates the tectonic dimension of architecture and promotes rigorous technical application.

Construction 02, offered in the second year of the Architecture programme, belongs to the field of Architectural Technology. It focuses on construction as an integrated technical system, articulating materiality, structure, infrastructure, environmental performance and execution. The course builds upon Construction 01, shifting from the analysis of constructive elements to their integration within a complete architectural object. The main exercise consists of the technical and execution design of a habitable capsule in an extreme climate, addressing the building envelope, passive strategies and infrastructural systems. The course consolidates the tectonic dimension of architecture and promotes rigorous technical application.

Drawing IV

Category: Discipline
  • Butler, C. H. & Zeguer, C. (2010).On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century.TheMuseum of Modern Art. Cullen, G. (1996). Paisagem Urbana. Edições 70. Janeiro, Pedro António (2011). Arquitecturas-Ficcionadas: O Desenho. Chiado Books. ISBN: 9789896971854. Pinto, Luís Moreira (2012). Desenho - Perceção e Forma.  Edições Colibri. ISBN: 9789896892326. Neto, Sandra Morgado (2019). Error. An Inventive Resource in Drawings. Oil Forest League. ISBN-10: 8894139484, ISBN-13:  9788894139488. Salavisa (2008). Diários de Viagem: desenhos do quotidiano.Quimera. Thomas, H., & Phaidon Press. (2018). Drawing architecture. Phaidon Press Limited.  
  • Architecture
  • 367
  • 6
  • Não
  • Português
  • M1.Hours of work organized according to the exposed ratio and distributed by:theoretical classes for the presentation and development of curriculum-based content, including seminaries and practical classes of execution and development of exercises with exploration statements. M2. Visual and sensorial perception of urban  space ,  looking for imersive experiences , improving the  previous  adquired tools, having as support  situations based on the concepts of the book " Concise Townscape"" by Gordon Cullen.   
  • Mandatory
  • O1. Criticism of design and visual systems: analytical capacity of the factual space, its representation and typologies specific to expression.   O2. Understanding of basic color phenomena: spatial study of modeling and depth of light through themes related to Architecture.   O3. Development of the practice of drawing in the spectrum of the processes of representation of the sensitive image and the abstract image: notion of sensation and concept in representation and expression.   O4. Adequacy of expression techniques to the conceptual phases of the architectural project and the respective models.   O5. Mental acuity supported by the habit of drawing that captures visibility over reality and uses 'invisibility' over the imagined:destruction and exercise of observation design and inventive design.
  • DAAD - Department of Architecture, Arts and Design
  • S1.Analysis of the real:synthesis, illustration, figuration and representation ; place and space. S2..  Study of visual systems and representation of environments and de facto fields.Color, color sensation, color psychology and color application. S3. Graphic language and application of linear and textural techniques:methodology of representation through the outline and the scheme. S4. Schematic syntheses: Structure, rhythm, mark, symmetry, laterality, opening and light. S5.Idea configuration: conceptualization, configuration and expression .The object in space: Study of concepts and representation of scenarios and panoramas for the object and vice versa. S6.Figuration versus configuration.Automatic graphic language. S7.Expression methodology through sketch and diagram.
  • Semestral
  •  The UC Draw IV aims to conduct a review oriented to identify drawing techniques that need to be developed by students in depth, since students must bring these techniques to amplify their ability to explore visuals with diverse aesthetics and to observe the unexpected in today's world. Drawing as a way of synthesizing the world around us and transforming existing worlds.

 The UC Draw IV aims to conduct a review oriented to identify drawing techniques that need to be developed by students in depth, since students must bring these techniques to amplify their ability to explore visuals with diverse aesthetics and to observe the unexpected in today's world. Drawing as a way of synthesizing the world around us and transforming existing worlds.

Geography II

Category: Discipline
  • CHRISTOPHERSON, Robert W ; BIRKELAND, Ginger H. Geossistemas: Uma Introdução à Geografia Física. 9ª ed. Porto Alegre: Bookman, 2017. GASPAR, Joaquim Alves. Cartas e Projecções Cartográficas. 3ª ed. Lisboa: Lidel, 2005. GONÇALVES, José Alberto, MADEIRA, Sérgio, SOUSA, J. João. Topografia: Conceitos e Aplicações. Lisboa: Lidel, 2012. JORGE, Filipe. Portugal Visto do Céu, 2ª ed. Lisboa: Argumentum, 2009. MARSH, W. DOZIER, J. Landscape: An Introduction to Physical Geography. 2ªed. Massachusetts: Addison, 1981. RIBEIRO, Orlando, Mediterrâneo - Ambiente e Tradição: Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1987. SANTOS, Milton. A Natureza do Espaço: razão e emoção, técnica e tempo. São Paulo: Edusp, 2004.
  • Architecture
  • 367
  • 2
  • Não
  • Português
  • Geoggraphy II is a theoretical-practical class, and will have personalized support for the development of practical work from its inception to its presentation. It has a component aimed at the active participation of students, where they will have to investigate and present in class various subjects included in the course syllabus. The course follows the continuous assessment method and the final classification will be based on the practical work, the knowledge assessment test, attendance and class participation.
  • Mandatory
  • a) Acquire knowledge focused on the subject's physical geography. b) Understanding of space and territory identifying the relationship between architecture and nature. c) Acquire knowledge and awareness to the natural characteristics of the territory and its influence on architecture. Relationship identification: topography and architecture, natural shape and built shape, architecture and climate. d) Acquire skills that will allow reading and understanding of the territory's graphic representations. e) Introduction of digital tools for territory's graphic expression. f) Acquire knowledge and practical application of building implantation logic in the territory through solutions adapted to the topography. g) Handling of different planning and management instruments and of their different applicability scales.
  • DAAD - Department of Architecture, Arts and Design
  • S1. Concepts and fundamentals of physical geography. S2. Evolution of cartographic representations. S3. Types of projections and cartographic information. S4. Global positioning system. S5. Architecture and topography: adaptation of solutions to the territory. S6. Territory relief's representation and the logic of building implantation and circulation roads according to natural constraints. S7. Digital graphic representation and geographic information systems. S8. Techniques of territorry's graphic representation. S9. Territorial management rules and hierarchy of planning plans. S10. National reserves, RAN and REN - concept and legislation and its link with other management tools.
  • Semestral
  • This curricular unit covers the territory's natural characteristics and its relationship with architecture.

This curricular unit covers the territory's natural characteristics and its relationship with architecture.

History of Architecture IV

Category: Discipline
  • Benevolo, Leonardo (1994) - História da arquitetura moderna. 3ª Edição. São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva, S.A., Frampton, Keneth (2003) - História crítica da arquitetura moderna. 3ª Edição. São Paulo: Livraria Martins Fontes, Ltda, ISBN 85-336-0750-4. Giedion, Siegfried (2010) - Espacio, tiempo Y arquitectura. 1ª Edição. Barcelona: Editorial Reverté S.A., ISBN: 978842912091. Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002) - Os Pioneiros do Desenho Moderno: de William Morris a Walter Gropius. 3ª Edição. São Paulo: Editora Martins Fontes, ISBN: 9788533616103. Sica, Paolo (1981) - Historia del urbanismo. El siglo XVIII, El siglo XIX, El siglo XX, Madrid: Instituto de Estudios de Administración Local, ISBN: 84-7088-296-1. Tafuri, Manfredo (1988) - Teorias e História da Arquitectura, 2º Edição: Lisboa: Editorial Presença, ISBN: 84-03-33027-8.  
  • Architecture
  • 367
  • 4
  • Não
  • Português
  • M1: Each issue to be developed should be framed in the intellectual and cultural context in general, and in the artistic context in particular. M2: Drawing will be used as it provides a better understanding of the architectural object and is a fundamental instrument in the formulation of its synthesis. The reflection on the architectural object will also be made so that its reading provides solutions that can be re-balanced in the discipline of Design. M3: Students are called to participate in all classes either through more direct answers to specific questions or through reflections that emerge from the current speech. M4: The teacher will monitor the individual assignments.  M5: The assessment will be based on the following items:     5.1- One written tests: 40%;     5.2- Research work: 43%;     5.3- Assiduity and active participation 30%  
  • Mandatory
  • O1: Understanding of the practical and theoretical international panorama of architecture of the Contemporary Age; O2: Understanding of History and Theory of Architecture in the broader cultural context; O3: Understanding the relationship between theoretical and building technologies; O4: Understanding of the past and, in particular, of the near past, and how it can be instrumental in thinking about the new issues that will arise in architecture in the present and in the future; O5: Understanding of history as an instrumental discipline in thinking and designing in architecture.
  • DAAD - Department of Architecture, Arts and Design
  • Syllabus S1: The second half of the 18th century.    1.2 The French Revolution and architecture;    1.3 The Industrial Revolution and architectur S2: The 19th century. Romanticism; Eclecticism; the iron architecture S3: The beginning of the 20th century. The Art Nouveaux; the Art Deco; the Modernism S4: Architecture between the Wars. The Bauhaus of Weimar and Dessau. S5: The Second Post-War.  S6: Postmodernism. S7: The present
  • Semestral
  • The curricular unit of History of Architecture IV focuses on the decisive moments in the construction of the history of architecture of the Contemporary Age, addressing the movements, authors and reference works, since the beginning of the 18th century, passing in more depth by the XIX , until the twentieth century, with the objective of developing in the student a critical and informed thinking fundamental to the interpretation of contemporary architectures and fundamental in terms of historiographical, theoretical and projectual research.  

The curricular unit of History of Architecture IV focuses on the decisive moments in the construction of the history of architecture of the Contemporary Age, addressing the movements, authors and reference works, since the beginning of the 18th century, passing in more depth by the XIX , until the twentieth century, with the objective of developing in the student a critical and informed thinking fundamental to the interpretation of contemporary architectures and fundamental in terms of historiographical, theoretical and projectual research.  

  1. Project IV
  2. Theory of Architecture II
  3. Creative Computing I
  4. Urban Design I

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