Renaissance and Baroque Architecture

Code: ARQ02512I

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Architecture

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Culture and architeture from Renaissance to Rococo.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

This theoretical-practical course has the following specific objectives:
1. To study the architectures of the Renaissance, Mannerism and Baroque, revealing their architectural culture and existential dimensions;
2. To critically identify and characterize buildings and territories of these periods;
3. Develop critical skills on the relationships between architectural space, form and materiality;
4. To stimulate creativity and the architectural design process through historical analysis;
5. Integrate the History of Portuguese Architecture within the context of the Renaissance and Baroque.

The syllabus is as follows:
1. Reencounter with Classical Antiquity and permanences of the Architectural Culture of the Middle Ages;
2. Territories and Architectures of the Renaissance;
3. Territories and Architectures of Mannerism;
4. Baroque Territories and Architectures;
5. Territories and Architectures between Baroque and Neo-Classicism;
6. Permanences of the Architectural Culture of Humanism;
7. History of Portuguese Architecture in the Renaissance and Baroque.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical practice classes, active learning methodologies. Dialogic approach based on the exposure of contents, debates, group discussions, short workshops, focused on solving problems in a real context and collaborative project design. Soft skills: communication skills, teamwork and problem solving. Individual and group monitoring, stimulating collaborative learning. Self-assessment and peer review.

Assessment

The classification in this curricular unit may result from one of the following evaluation regimes: continuous evaluation or final exam.

Continuous evaluation = (0.25xA) + (0.25xC) + (0.25xC) + (0.25xD)

Evaluation by normal period exam = 0.50x[(0.25xH) + (0.25xC) + (0.25xC) + (0.25xD)] + (0.50xE)

Evaluation by appeal exam, special exam and extraordinary exam = 0.40x[(0.25xA) + (0.25xC) + (0.25xC) + (0.25xD)] + (0.60xE)

Class attendance is mandatory (75% of classes).

Where:
Final Note - cannot be less than 10 points.
A, B, C, D ? practical assignments related to all components A, B, C and D indicated in the syllabus, whose arithmetic average cannot be less than 10 points.
E ? exam whose minimum grade is 10 points.