Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Architecture ( Integrated Master)

HISTÓRIA DA ARQUITECTURA - 2016/2017

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor António Oliveira
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor António Oliveira

Class type and School hours

Teórica : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

This course comes after previous teachings about history of architecture genesis, supported on contents of the curricular units that integrate the Syllabus of the course in previous years.

Accordingly, it is the general aim of this course a reflection on the aspects that led to the contemporary architecture.

Specific Aims/Objectives

It is intended that the student understands in an embracing manner the social, economic and cultural aspects that are underlying the design and production of artefacts - from object to town - appropriately framed in their temporal dimension that within this course if relates to the period between Art Nouveau and contemporaneity.

Skills to be acquired

The student should be able to make a critical assessment of the architectural language and its multiple spatial, formal, constructive and functional meanings, along with the understanding of changes of collective destinies, the advancement of scientific and technological knowledge, extra-disciplinary analogies and the evolution of economic activities.

Teaching Procedures

From a historical, theoretical and conceptual context,, to each thematic match an analysis of the built buildings, focused on spatial and aesthetic aspects. This analysis will be done by the use of text, image and video.

Programme

1. Origins of Contemporary Architecture;

2. Art Nouveau.;

3. Frank Lloyd Wright;

4. De Stijl;

5. The Bauhaus;

6. Le Corbusier.;

7. Scandinavian architecture.

8. Another European architecture.;

9. Latin American Architecture;

10. Isadore Kahn Louis;

11. Post-Modernist architecture;

12. The postmodern condition;

13. Latest architectural trends.

Evaluation Type

The evaluation is performed according to:
- General Regulations of Knowledge and Skills of Lusíada Universities;
- Specific Rules for Evaluation of Architecture Course .
In this sense, the continuous evaluation of the course will be held through two written tests that reflect the learning of content, applied to the proposed exercises.

Teaching Resources

1. Presentation of theoretical research and projects related to the syllabus;
2. Performing open classes with specialists that allow the exchange of different experiences and
skills;
3. Exhibition of culturally important films related to the course themes;
4. Study visits.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Economic / social / cultural contextualization.
Technological developments.
Aesthetic options.
Architecture.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography