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

ECONOMIA DO PROJECTO - 2020/2021

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

Teórica : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Provide the student with theoretical knowledge underlying the design process, trying to show that it is essential to the creation of the architectural form under the articulation theoretical knowledge / practical knowledge. In this perspective, project economics is a disciplinary area that studies the way (s) how the different elements of the project process are coordinated and their respective contributions to enhance the diversity of architectural forms.

Specific Aims/Objectives

It is intended that the student understands the design process as a scholarly act - underlying a research and structured thinking that will support the architectural form. It is also intended that the student, recognizing the variable articulation between various elements / constituents of the project process, recognizes the theoretical and practical resources to manage their creativity, thus enhancing the harmony of a formal whole - the building.

Skills to be acquired

The student should understand the economics of the project in the context of the nature / essence of the architectural project (as a transformer of potential reality; as a creative act; as a process; as a document). They should acquire skills that allow to know how to integrate their project process in the current and multidisciplinary context of contemporary architecture.

Teaching Procedures

The lectures follow a communication strategy that encourages learning, discussion, criticism and the elaboration of syntheses, starting from the presentation of contents about ´how to do´ architecture through the project(s) (texts, images, videos, cartography and schematics).

Programme

0. Project economics: ways of approaching the different elements that contribute to the harmony of the whole.
1. Nature of the project;
2. The history of the project;
3. Before you begin;
4. The sources of the project;
5. The process of idealization;
6. From ideas to forms;
7. the elaboration of the project;
8. the representation;
9. What ´to do´ and ´how to do´ it;
10. The project paths (six architects - six processes).

Evaluation Type

Continuous assessment will be supported by the following elements (taking into account the University´s General Knowledge Regulations):
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. diverse bibliography with relevant information (texts, cartography, photographs, etc.);
2. projection of synthesized information (texts, cartography, photographs, etc.) into digital files (jpeg, pdf, ppt).

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Project
Project process
Practical thinking
Theoretical thinking
Architectural form

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography