2025
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
Name: 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
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.
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.
Contents
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.
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 = (0,35xF) + (0,35xF) + (0,20xTA) + (0,1xAP)
Evaluation by normal period exam = 1xE
Evaluation by appeal exam, special exam and extraordinary exam = 1xE
Class attendance is mandatory (75% of classes).
Where:
Final Note - cannot be less than 10 points.
F - Test
TA ? Autonomous assignment
AP - Assiduidade e Participação
E ? Exam
Continuous evaluation = (0,35xF) + (0,35xF) + (0,20xTA) + (0,1xAP)
Evaluation by normal period exam = 1xE
Evaluation by appeal exam, special exam and extraordinary exam = 1xE
Class attendance is mandatory (75% of classes).
Where:
Final Note - cannot be less than 10 points.
F - Test
TA ? Autonomous assignment
AP - Assiduidade e Participação
E ? Exam
Teaching Staff
- Júlia Zurbach Varela [responsible]
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