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

Versao Portuguesa

CIDADE E TERRITÓRIO - 2020/2021

4º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Sérgio Amorim
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Sérgio Amorim

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

The opportunity and advantage of articulating the Territory with the City and, necessarily, with the Architecture, define the main general aims/objectives:
- Highlight the importance of cities in the civilizational process.
- Specify some key concepts for decoding urban space and their territorial dynamics.
- Reflect on the new urban forms in the metropolitan territory.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Understand the importance of architecture in the shape of the city, above all, in the context of its elementary structure "built" versus "not built", in order to interpret / criticize the different city models in the current context of the vast metropolitan city.

Skills to be acquired

It is intended that the student develops his critical capacity, distancing himself from common sense. From the identification, characterization and interpretation of urban phenomena, elements or facts, construct a critical view of today city sprawl.

Teaching Procedures

Theoric classes follow a communication strategy that promotes learning, discussion, criticism and synthesis elaboration, based on the presentation / analysis of theoric views of very specific authors and concrete examples (based on texts, images, videos, cartography and schemes) that enhances the relationship between architecture, the city and the territory.

Programme

THEME 1
OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE CONTEMPORARY CITY
- The urban elements
- Urban forms
- Architecture(s) in the urban territory

THEME 2
THREE FACTORS FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY IN THE XX CENTURY
- Urbanization and modernization
- The third modernity
- The third modern urban revolution

THEME 3
THE EXPLOSION OF THE CITY
- Dispersion as a phenomenon
- The metropolitanization of the territory
- The intersection of various activities
- The new territorial hierarchy
- Examples of ´territory-cities´

THEME 4
ABOUT CONURBATION IN PORTUGAL

4.1.
METROPOLITAN AND NON-METROPOLITAN CONURBATIONS
- The Metropolitan Conurbation of Lisbon
- The Metropolitan conurbation of Porto
- The northwestern Portuguese conurbation

4.2.
STRATEGY OPTIONS AND URBAN FORMS
- Endogenous and exogenous growth(s)
- Vary the densities without prejudice to sustainability
- Centralities / activities: concentration strategies from mono to polycentric
- Strengthening mobility: time management
- Diversification and mixing of activities: territorial rebalancing
- Collective space as a link between heterogeneities and support for new mixes
- Natural spaces as structures for the sustainability of territories
- Regulate real estate: the plurality of interests

Evaluation Type

Continuous assessment will be supported by the following elements (taking into account the University´s General Knowledge Regulation):
1. attendance;
2. punctuality;
3. participation;
4. two written tests.

Teaching Resources

For the development / presentation / discussion of the syllabus the following resources will be used:
1. specific bibliography with relevant information (texts, drawings, photographs, etc.);
2. projection of synthesized information (texts, drawings, photographs, etc.) in digital files (jpeg, pdf, ppt);
3. summary information of the classes (pdf) made available on the moodle platform.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Architecture
City
Territory
Urbanism
Planning

Main Bibliography

Author ASCHER, François
Title Novos Princípios do Urbanismo
Edition 2ª ed.
Place Lisboa
Editor Livros Horizonte
Year 2010
Author AA.VV.
Title L explosió de la ciutat
Edition 1ª ed.
Place Barcelona
Editor COAC Publicacions
Year 2004
Author PORTAS, Nuno; DOMINGUES, Álvaro; CABRAL, João
Title Políticas Urbanas
Edition 4ª ed.
Place Lisboa
Editor Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Year 2007

Complementary Bibliography

Author SOLÀ-MORALES, Ignasi
Title Territorios
Edition 1ª ed.
Place Barcelona
Editor Gustavo Gili
Year 2002
Author COELHO, Carlos Dias
Title Os Elementos Urbanos
Edition 2ª ed.
Place Lisboa
Editor Argumentum
Year 2015