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

URBANISMO - 2017/2018

4º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st 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

Provide the student theoretical knowledge underlying the origin and formation of cities, seeking their understanding of evolution to its current study, by focusing on understanding of urbanism as presently understood, disciplinary science that studies the city, its transformation and its urban design .

Specific Aims/Objectives

Guide the student to understand the processes of action in cities, understanding the functioning of the city, the scale and form. It is also intended that the student knows the resources to intervene in the metropolis through the various designs of mesh, the attitude of the organization, research and continuous updating in interpretation of these spaces.

Skills to be acquired

The student should understand urbanism in historical, social, architectural and formal. It should also distinguish the mesh designs, relevant technical training and theoretical affiliation. Should acquire skills to enable it to know integrate the existing urban context and multidisciplinary.

Teaching Procedures

As aulas teórico-práticas, seguem uma estratégia de comunicação que suscite a aprendizagem, a discussão, a crítica e a elaboração de sínteses esquemáticas, partindo da apresentação de exemplos (textos, imagem, cartografia).

Programme

Chapter 1
1.0. Urban Development
1.1. Urbanisation and the Middle Ages.
1.2. Urbanism and the Renaissance.
1.3. Urban Planning and Baroque.
1.4. Drawing eighteenth-century English.
1.5. Morphological patterns adopted by Haussmann in the nineteenth century.
1.6. The orientation of Camillo Sitte.
1.7. The practice of urbanism Unwin.

Chapter 2
2.0. The utopias of the nineteenth century.
2.1. Urban reforms in the nineteenth century.
2.2. Owen and the cooperative movement English.
2.3. The Saint-Simonian school.
2.4. The Fourier phalanstery.
2.5. Godin and Cabet.


2.6. The Model of a Garden City.
2.7. The Garden City Model 2.
2.8. The implementation of Redburn.
2.9. The model of the Neighbourhood Unit.
2.10. The Ensanche projects in the nineteenth century.
2.11. Amsterdam and Vienna of the twentieth century.
2.12. The Siedlungs Berlin
2.13. The experience of New Towns in England

Chapter 3
3.0. The modern movement.
3.1. The Origins of the Modern City.
3.2. The Charter of Athens and the functional urbanism.
3.3. The model of Le Corbusier´s Radiant City

Chapter 4
4.0. The public work of dictatorships.
4.1. Public works and city equipment.
4.2. The model city beautiful.
4.3. The monumental urban design.

Chapter 5
5.0. The Portuguese Urbanism
5.1. Urban forms.
5.2. The Perception of Form and Composition of City

Evaluation Type

The evaluation will be as settled in the Regulamento Geral de Avaliação of the University. It will be used the ongoing, periodical and individual evaluation.
The final evaluation includes assiduity, punctuality and two tests.

Teaching Resources

For the presentation / discussion of the programmatic contents, it will be used: available informatics means, namely the use of PowerPoint program me, multiple bibliography, cartography, photography and texts for reflection. Throughout the classes, all bibliographic sources will be indicated.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

city
urbanism
urban Design
urban forms
urban development

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography