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

URBANISMO - 2021/2022

4º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor João Cardoso
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor João Cardoso

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Focusing on the understanding of urbanism, which is currently understood as the disciplinary area that studies the city, its transformation and its urban design, it is intended to provide the student with theoretical knowledge underlying the origin and formation of cities, aiming at their evolutionary understanding until the present time.

Specific Aims/Objectives

It is intended that the student understands the processes related to the formal identity of cities and, respectively, their consequent phenomenology. It is also intended that the student recognizes in the urban elements (fabric, layout, mesh, square, street, block, plot, singular building and common building) fundamental resources in any context of intervention in the territory, especially in the context of the architectural project.

Skills to be acquired

The student should understand urbanism in the historical, social, architectural and formal contexts. It should also distinguish between tracing and mesh drawings, their formation and theoretical affiliation. You should acquire skills that allow you to know how to integrate urbanism in a current and multidisciplinary context, especially in the context of the process associated with the architectural project.

Teaching Procedures

The practical classes follow a communication strategy that encourages learning, discussion, criticism and the elaboration of schematic syntheses, starting from the presentation of examples (texts, images, cartography and diagrammatic schemes).

Programme

0. THE CITY: THE SHAPE (EMPTY VS FULL AND PUBLIC VS PRIVATE) AND ITS URBAN ELEMENTS (FABRIC, TRACE, MESH, SQUARE, STREET, PARTNER, SINGULAR BUILDINGS AND COMMON BUILDINGS).
1. THE URBAN FORM FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE XIX CENTURY:
1.1. THE FIRST CITIES;
1.2. THE Greek CITY;
1.3. THE ROMAN CITY;
1.4. THE MEDIEVAL CITY;
1.5. ThE CITY AND THE RENAISSANCE;
1.6. THE CITY AND THE BAROQUE;
1.7. URBAN DESIGN AND FORMS IN THE 19th CENTURY 1;
1.8. URBAN DESIGN AND FORMS IN THE 19th CENTURY 2.
2. THE MODERN CITY:
2.1. HISTORICAL CONTEXT;
2.2. URBAN EXPERIENCES AMONG THE TWO WORLD WARS;
2.3. URBANISTIC EXPERIENCES AFTER THE 2nd WORLD WAR TO THE 70s.
3. THE CITY IN "POST MODERNISM":
3.1. CRITICISM TO MODERN CITY (PROJECTS AND LITERATURE);
3.2. THE (RE)VALUATION OF HISTORIC CENTERS (BOLOGNA PLAN);
3.3. THE "NEW URBANISM": ZAC Guilleminot-Vercingectorix (France); IBA (Berlin).
4. ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF URBAN DESIGN TODAY:
4.1. RECREATION / COMBINATION OF URBAN FORMS;
4.2. PUBLIC SPACE AND ?LIFE BETWEEN BUILDINGS?.

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

Urbanism
Urban elements
Urban forms
Urban evolution
City drawing

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography