2024
Architecture Theory I
Name: Architecture Theory I
Code: ARQ02530I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Architecture
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, Italian
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
With a focus on the main episodes of western architectural theory production from Vitruvius to the 19th C., this UC seeks to develop the students' culture of theory and their ability for criticism.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
This theoretical-practical course aims to familiarize students with the theoretical culture and the skills of critical elaboration, focusing on the main episodes of Western theoretical production in architecture from Vitruvius to the twentieth century:
1. Approach to Architecture understood as an autonomous disciplinary body, seeking to equate its own nature;
2. Approach to Architecture as a Construction Process that implies a support for an inhabitation inseparable from a locality, a purpose and an address;
3. Approach to Architecture as an experienced and lived event, expressed in certain atmospheres arising from its visible and invisible qualities;
4. Approach students to critical reflection on Architecture, providing them with knowledge and tools that can allow value judgment about Architecture, as well as stimulate creativity and the process of the Architectural Project itself.
1. Approach to Architecture understood as an autonomous disciplinary body, seeking to equate its own nature;
2. Approach to Architecture as a Construction Process that implies a support for an inhabitation inseparable from a locality, a purpose and an address;
3. Approach to Architecture as an experienced and lived event, expressed in certain atmospheres arising from its visible and invisible qualities;
4. Approach students to critical reflection on Architecture, providing them with knowledge and tools that can allow value judgment about Architecture, as well as stimulate creativity and the process of the Architectural Project itself.
Contents
The syllabus is as follows:
1. Introduction. Approach to Architectural Theory;
2. Architecture and the Origin of Inhabiting;
3. Architecture and Locality, Purpose and Address;
4. Architecture and Architectural Project;
5. Architecture and Ethics;
6. Architecture and Corporeality;
7. Conclusion. Architecture as Being.
1. Introduction. Approach to Architectural Theory;
2. Architecture and the Origin of Inhabiting;
3. Architecture and Locality, Purpose and Address;
4. Architecture and Architectural Project;
5. Architecture and Ethics;
6. Architecture and Corporeality;
7. Conclusion. Architecture as Being.
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.
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.
Teaching Staff
- Luís Duarte Ferro [responsible]
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