100103 - ECTS

The discipline of Drawing aims to promote the representation and knowledge of the visible world and the mental images through manual graphic skills, in accordance with the following objectives:
- To develop the student's the ability to observe;
- To develop the ability and knowledge about the act of drawing and the sensitivity to plastic and aesthetic values;
- To create conditions for the student to face the act of projecting with spontaneity, agility and awareness;
- To stimulate the presence in the act of project of non systematic, symbolic and poetic components.
- To promote the appreciation and understanding of the need and pleasure of representation;
- To recognize drawing as a graphic expression of an intention;
- To understand that you can learn how to draw through the practice of drawing.

100106 - ECTS

To know the different systems of representation, their properties and specificities, as a means for the reading, construction and representation of space, from the territory to the architectonic object.

Be able to use 3D modeling tools for the same purpose.

200202 - ECTS

To understand the conceptual and technical magnitude of ancient and medieval architectonic expressions in their specific territorial and urban, formal and constructive dimensions. 
To contribute to the development of an inquisitive introductory methodology to the study of the History of Architecture which may become a matrix to address the historic context of architectonic units, regardless of the time and space to which they belong, in terms of location, function, form, technique, image, symbol and meaning. 

100101 - ECTS

Because this course is occurring during the propaedeutic year of studies, it aims to:
- approach the generic problematics of Architecture;
- manage the basic tools for projecting;
- introduce students to project methodology.

100102 - ECTS

The main goals of this discipline (TGOE - TEORIA GERAL DA ORGANIZAÇÃO DO ESPAÇO/ GENERAL THEORY OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SPACE) is to get the students familiar with the greatest number of specific kind of spaces, as well as with the various concepts competing for its characterization: from "natural landscapes" to "humanized space", from medieval city space to contemporary one, from urban space to architectural space, from the public to the domestic ambiences.

 

200204 - ECTS

Studying the architectural space in its constructive dimension, by raising awareness and acquiring basic scientific knowledge about the materials and techniques involved in the construction processes.
Ensure that this learning, which is based on the study of generic building becomes necessary instrumentation to support architectural practice and theoretical action, permanently referred to the context of the place and the production system.

200206 - ECTS

Objectives, Competences and Learning results.
To develop drawing praxis – the singularity of its expression and individual adequateness
(manners, techniques and systems of representation) – in such a way that it favours a free and effective construction of images closely related to architectural project.

300302 - ECTS

History of architecture has to be understood as an art that is attaining step by step a scientific goal and not, in any case, like a evocative summing up of buildings, cities, and interventions on natural landscape in order to achieve the basic means of life in an artificial HABITAT.

The history of modern architecture aims the acquaintance of the generally so called classical architecture. The chronological scope of this discipline mediates from the end of Middle Ages until the beginning of neo-classical period.

The history of modern architecture archives that are dealt with in this discipline are mostly the deeds of “stone and plaster”. The student is invited to understand how the architect/builder of those times could deal with the architectural concepts for the coeval time being, giving them form and substance, i.e., turning the architectural concept into the architectonic matter.

The knowledge of architecture could not survive without the written documents as well as drawings that, sometimes are due to arise some unexpected hypothesis to understand unconventional matters.

200201 - ECTS

The vertical structure of the Course in the design area proposes for the 2nd year an introduction on the issues of design methodology and the continuity of the learning process started in the 1st year, developing and consolidating the instrumental and conceptual capacities for the design exercise. This practice presumes the capacity of experimentation and synthesis of diverse convergent issues on the architecture field, which will always be subjacent in the proposal of an architectonic form.
The 2nd year design process should focus on the renovation of a consolidated city area, easily identifiable, proposing buildings of variable dimension and complexity with an equipment and restaurant program. It should privilege the analysis of the building set, the public space and the city, using as support architecture and urban history and architectonic analysis methodology, with the goal that each student builds and fundaments its reading of the site. The process of intervention and context observation should lead to the identification and characterization of the diverse architectonic elements and forms that constitute the design area and its meaning in the city history, aiming an objective validity of each transformation proposed. This should result from a process in which the area knowledge and the creative and critic capacity of the student reveals a progressive improvement of the proposal validity and its design.

200203 - ECTS

The objectives, skills and outcome of the learning process are:
1 - To make the student familiar with the subject of Architectural Theory, in its specificities as well as with the interactions it establishes with other fields (i.s. Design, History, Building, Planning) 

2 - To make the student familiar with a sequence of theoretical movements, architectural languages and architecture' thinkers who left their mark in the developing of Architecture and in the field of Theory in particular.

3 - To develop general knowledge, critical capacity and personal interests that will support the student in his architectural practices and design experiences.

10125C1 - ECTS

Knowledge of the main sociological and anthropological paradigms for the study of spatial questions; understanding of the frames of strcutural relation between spatial morphology and socio-cultural morphology; knowledge of the main implications of these relations in the study of portuguese society.

20203A2 - ECTS

 

When social dynamics change, so does the mode of appropriation and transformation of the territory. This issue requires not only the constantly review of the conceptual and theoretical geography tools, but also to update the knowledge of empirical reality, in the case of Portugal.

 

 

 

 

 

In general, students of architecture have a very poor training in Geography, a situation that becomes complicated when this gap is filled with inaccurate information too superficial and "common sense". In addition, the disciplinary body of Geography (Physical and Human) is extremely broad and includes other specializations and areas of interest shared by other knowledge fields. Geography by itself doesn’t fill this gap, nevertheless is possible to focus the objectives in some fields of interest that Geography, Architecture and Urbanism share, developing the theoretical discussion of common concepts and theories (urban, rural, city and country, urbanization, etc.)

 

 

20204A2 - ECTS

The main objective of this unit is to stimulate curricular compreensão, under the big projectos urban problems of scale in intervenções, the role of agents transformação urban questão of the value of the land and the importance of the "Project Financing".

2UP2 - ECTS

20203A2 - ECTS

20204A2 - ECTS

20202A2 - ECTS Familiarize students with the profession and discipline of landscape architecture.

Clarification of the current vocabulary areas of this discipline as well as the guiding principles of interventions.

Knowledge of basic methodologies and the various stages and components of a landscape architecture design project.

Knowledge of the various work scales - from landscape development to small garden projects.

Knowledge of some of the major works and projects.

Basic knowledge of cartographic representation of the territory and landscape.

2UP2 - ECTS

300304 - ECTS

This course aims to introduce buildings´ construction theme, especially the understanding of the physics of buildings that supports the transformation of the project into construction..
It is intended that the student learns about the following topics: design and innovation; systems and construction elements, elements that compose the building, functions and requirements, types of materials, their application and performance; construction players, function and responsibility; the working site and the construction of a building, phasing and work management, legal framework in buildings´ construction.

500502 - ECTS The aim of History of Contemporary Architecture is the critical knowledge of the architecture of contemporary age, considered as the period that begins wioth the end of baroque architecture and ends in present time. In the mid eighteenth century, the rise of the scientific archeology (with the separation between archeologists and architects) and the enlargement of the antiquity sources, no more predominantly related to roman examples, have an important role in a new way of understanding the relation of architecture with its own past. In this period different motivations intersect: the search of the origins as a new fundament of knowledge, the reorganization of the industrial city, the abstraction and the rise of the modern movement, the discussion of its principles after World War II, etc. The year 1750, a possible beginning of this period, is the date of Denis Diderot's publication of the "Prospectus" of the Encyclopédie, witch would initiate its publication the following year.
In the lectures, the most important buildings, architectural projects and ideas of the period will be exposed diachronically. The particular circumstances of the architectural works will be discussed, but also its precedents and its consequences on other works in a broader time perspective.The relation with Portuguese examples will also be discussed, underlying their particular circumstances.
One work of contemporary Portuguese architecture, chosen by the students according to their interests, will be the subject of the group work. Throughout  the year, with a tutorial guidance, the students must extend and develop the reasons that gave rise to the initial choice. Starting from contemporary debate, they must also research new relations that problematize the work of architecture studied throughout the academic year.
The students will also visit some contemporary Portuguese architectural works that must be photographed and assembled in a field note book. This notebook is a complement of the lectures, but it is also a way to investigate the relations between the works visited and the architectural work studied in their group work.

300301 - ECTS

Objectives

Project 3 takes for granted the methodological skills and tecnical design handling necessarily acquired in previous years, having to test and develop them in order to increase the knowledge and experience of students to a superior level of capabilities and requirements.
Under the general theme of multifamily housing and the city as a framework, are carried out a series of exercises that enhance experimentation, reflection and the ability of materializing extensive projectual  knowledge about Design and Architecture.
First of all, to make the general approach of the issues and problems of collective housing, defined as reflection on modes of living, as a test of the definition of programs and development of cell-spaces that reflect, as well as the study the association of these cells by systems and rules that constitute an effective link and empowering capable of contributing clear gains for the individual residence. It also intends, through the study of fires, distribution systems, the associations into modules and the conformation of the building, make informed and consistent choices typological possible. It is also to do so in an urban setting, forcing to study and understand the procedures and training elements of the urban fabric and the identification of their morphology, studying how to carry out a housing program defines substantial, is, alter or rebuild new urban fabric. Thus, the integration of the two components to reflect and understand the interdependence, the dialectical relationship between urban insertion, the urban morphology and architectural typology housing.
The exercises provided are also intended to advance the experience and skills of design students in three key areas: first in the vastness and complexity of the problems with the gradual introduction of programmatic constraints, urban and legal issues that interfere with the process simpler definition of the form exercised in previous years. Second, the particular difficulties and the potential that the joint work at the same time scales from 1 / 1000 to 1 / 2 provides, that is, checking interdependencies and mutual stimulation between the urban and the general design or detail of the buildings . Third, not least, to treat intensively the constructive aspects, both in its general logic or wisdom in detail, students have the opportunity to realize that they must materialize in a rigorous way, the desired construction, constituting more than one mere addition of information, an essential part of the work of shaping the expression of architecture and provide an opportunity for synthesis of language and construction, with implications and effect on larger scales and throughout the final result.
The general framework of these exercises is relatively conservative. It is understood that the approach to the subject of housing and collective or multifamily dwelling goes better with the qualifying of the banal, than the playing with the  exceptionality of the speculation, be it programmatic, functional or formal - although not neglecting it. before with the knowing that in it, all students can, without limiting the level of quality or depth, gain strength for other requirements.

300303 - ECTS

What is it to have a theoretical discourse that, inquiring, balancing and informing invention and discipline, work and knowledge, identifies-agitates-translates a particular way to act and think – architecture –, looses space | time | subject | object of frontiers and conventional oppositions and promotes a few constructions of thought which mediate the projectual action, being aware that “all conflict is on projects and not on this or that discipline” (B. Miranda)?

How could we establish a critical discourse on architecture that reflects propositively upon its actions, without thereby evading the spaces of the specific problems of the discipline and/or evading the materials of the project’s house-body, in its action towards the definition of places, the production of meanings, the signs of a speech?

Aiming the mobility of the meanings and the complexity of the materials offered to the construction of architecture, how could we creatively serve its destiny of architecture as expression and physical projection of the imagination, as experimentation and experience, as knowledge and happening, without subverting its “adventurous coherence” by the arbitrary and abusive manipulation of the complexity of the materials that organize it?

 

300305 - ECTS

The discipline of Urbanística 1 proposes a reflection on the meanings inherent to the contexts and processes of conformation and evolution of the city and the territories of urbanization, observing the results of the different models, forms and scales of action, within the respective agents' realm and technical and operational assumptions.
The understanding of (intervention in) city and territory naturally presupposes an interdisciplinary approach and the correct interpretation of the relationships between urban practices and physical, social, economic and political structures, their intrinsic characteristics and rules, identifying the permanence factors and the dynamics of change inherent in the very facts and processes to be recognized.
An objective and coherent perception of urban phenomena is sought as resultants and/or determinants of the interaction between programs, plans and projects (public spaces, infrastructure and architecture), their forms of concretion, articulation and management, especially with the generalization of the urban and territorial planning actions that aggregate several areas of scientific knowledge.

30318B3 - ECTS

Verifica-se hoje, entre os estudantes, uma notória dificuldade em identificar, observar, anotar e reter, com rapidez e eficiência, muitos dos factos e formas estruturantes na composição de uma obra arquitectónica. De modo a complementar a percepção fugaz potenciada pela celeridade dos meios de difusão de imagens arquitectónicas correntes na internet, perdendo-se o processo lento de apreensão e o hábito de “estudo de projecto”, interessa, enquanto objectivo pedagógico, fomentar a capacidade de concentrar o olhar sobre os factos relevantes de uma imagem, de um desenho ou de um comentário, com acuidade e eficácia. Consequentemente, o objectivo da UC é ajudar a criar e desenvolver a capacidade de observar, destacar e compreender (e representar, pelo desenho rápido), os significantes arquitectónicos essenciais à análise de projecto.

30306B3 - ECTS The aim of CAAD I, which is a 1st Semester 3rd year course in the first-cycle, is to develop theoretical and practical bases related to the universe of communication strategies for the design of architecture in an early stage of development (territory analysis, communication, concepts, schemes, site plans and volumes).

The focus is to use graphic design, photography and image synthesis software applied for communicating and image architecture with a special incidence in the early stages of the design process.

30314B3 - ECTS It is intended that the student can acquire technical and expressive skills in the fields of drawing the human figure and the representation of space.

It is intended to promote personal research paths that ensure the practice of drawing as dialogic and structural relationship of imagination.

30312B3 - ECTS

The aim of the Constructive Geometry courses consist in researching the role of Geometry in Architecture, by exploring its relation with current digital technologies. The course of the first semester - Constructive Geometry 1 (GC-1) introduces the students to the research of new themes with a strong implication in the design and characterization of the architectural space.

The development of CG-1 curriculum unfolds through the pratical exploration of the computer, which is understood here as a media for:
- geometric representation (drawing and modeling);
- calculation and geometric computation (parametric and algorithmic design;
- physical materialization (digital fabrication).

3UP3 - ECTS

30319B3 - ECTS Verifica-se hoje, entre os estudantes, uma notória dificuldade em identificar, observar, anotar e reter, com rapidez e eficiência, muitos dos factos e formas estruturantes na composição de uma obra arquitectónica. De modo a complementar a percepção fugaz potenciada pela celeridade dos meios de difusão de imagens arquitectónicas correntes na internet, perdendo-se o processo lento de apreensão e o hábito de “estudo de projecto”, interessa, enquanto objectivo pedagógico, fomentar a capacidade de concentrar o olhar sobre os factos relevantes de uma imagem, de um desenho ou de um comentário, com acuidade e eficácia. Consequentemente, o objectivo da UC é ajudar a criar e desenvolver a capacidade de observar, destacar e compreender (e representar, pelo desenho rápido), os significantes arquitectónicos essenciais à análise de projecto.

30307B3 - ECTS

The aim of CAAD II is to keep developing theoretical and practical bases related to the universe of communication strategies for architectural design in an early stage of development (territory analysis, communication, concepts, schemes, site plans and volumes).

Photography and photomontage are used and the study, conception and production of a photobook is pursued.

30315B3 - ECTS Acquire technical and expressive skills in the areas of human figure drawing and representation of space. Develop the practice of drawing the human figure in their relationship with space. Depth, through the images of the design, understanding of the relationship between body and space
In short, it is promoting pathways personal search to ensure the practice of drawing as a relationship and structuring of imagination and thought.

30313B3 - ECTS The aim of the Constructive Geometry courses consist in researching the role of Geometry in Architecture, by exploring its relation with current digital technologies. The course of the second semester - Constructive Geometry 2 (GC-2) - expands the knowledge acquired during GC-1, by researching a higher degree of complexity in geometrical subjects with a strong influence in the generative and constructive processes in architecture.

The development of CG-2 curriculum unfolds through the practical exploration of the computer, which is understood here as a media for:
- geometric representation (drawing and modeling);
- calculation and geometric computation (parametric and algorithmic design;
- physical materialization (digital fabrication).

3UP3 - ECTS

400405 - ECTS

a) Promote the understanding of the object as a built physical body in the perspective of transforming the discourse on the materials and construction systems into a key component of the project process.
b) Develop the ability to understand the closeness between the ideas of Architecture and Construction.

c) To deepen the knowledge acquired in previous years regarding materials and construction systems, developing the technical skills of design as an essential component of the project process.

d) Enhance means of communication with the Work, in view of the operational integration of the acquired knowledge in Project practice.

e) Identify the discipline with the practice of the Integrated Project, crossing the information of the projects of complementary specialties, in the optics of interdisciplinarity that informs the creative act as synthesis process.

400402 - ECTS

The course aims at the acquisition of knowledge of Portuguese architecture, including with reference to architectures from other Iberian, European and Mediterranean spaces (and other parts of the world), so as to understand the encounter of cultures and interpret signs of specificity and identity of Portuguese architecture.

400401 - ECTS

The aim of this Subject is the consolidation of the methods of project processes. It is considered that this consolidation should be done and confirmed through exercises with varying degrees of complexity, with special attention to the treatment and development of a solution for a Subject. This requires a work of architectural synthesis in its different program, contextual, functional, constructive and formal components that allows the student to enhance the knowledge indispensable to submit a projectual answer.

400404 - ECTS This course unit aims to provide a clear understanding of the principles and methods governing the definition of the structural solution within the architectural design of buildings.
Starting from a deeper understanding of the mechanical behavior of the main structural elements types, it is expected that the student acquires a set of structural design guiding principles, coupled with simplified methods of structural analysis, adequate to promote a rapid and reliable verification of the solution.

400403 - ECTS 1. Concepts acquired in precedent units of architectural theory will be enlarged and methods oriented towards autonomous thinking required for nestling personal research fields.
2. Information and critical analysis of cases will be inscribed in the pursuit of a definition of Public Space as a space category, architectonic, morphologically related to Forms of Residence and Forms of Institutions.
3. Theoretical and critical knowledge endeavours strategic formulation which, in the domain of Architecture, is operated and attains full expression by the project.
4. Experimental research is the essential requirement for any theoretical formulation in Teoria 3, followed by the demands of demonstration (facts and arguments) through the disciplinary instruments of architecture (hand and computer drawing, measuring and calculation, photographic or other image capture means, graphic design of text and image maters) complemented by bibliographic research and, eventually, by interview (authors, users, promoters, constructors).
5. To build state of the art knowledge about the physical organization of Public Space, embraced under the unitary concept of Forms of the Institutions, by means of systematic study of existing cases, in Portuguese soil or abroad. Observation, register and comprehension must be undertaken as an exercise of methodical search both for architectonic universals and circumstantial factors that individuate Form.
6. New technologies required by Teoria 3, for production, register, discussion and archive, have the primary purpose of development both instrumental crafts and communication habits, that serve in first instance, freedom of speech fed by debate apprenticeship and, as equally valuable, the digital archive that allow others to read, criticise and continue one’s work.

By recognizing that architectural research implies types of reasoning that belong and sometimes are dominant in artistic fields of knowledge, such as projective and synthetic thought, among the case study options, the student may consider the existing public spaces inscribed in the scenery of the exercise of the Architectural Design unit he is attending, therefore design proposals are admitted both as theoretical and practical results.

50135C5 - ECTS Nowadays, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, with around a quarter of this population living in extreme precarious conditions and an additional portion facing relevant gaps in its habitat. Estimates seem to indicate that this percentage has declined, but numbers will have increased, and the inequity of economic incomes will also have increased, especially in the economies considered as more developed.

In this way, the debate on equity is a global issue, from the countries of the North to the countries of the South, and that action in the environment built for more equitable spaces and democratic access to urban resources is, a challenge for architects and urban planners.

Given the most recent and contrasting global dynamics of urbanization and the current professional challenges placed at the international level, this curricular unit intends to create a theoretical and practical field of discussion around the spatialization of poverty and the disparities in this process of urbanization, social concerns in the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism, as well as the limitations and potentialities of redistributive policies, social interest and fair management of the built environment.

Thus, it is proposed here the study of the disparities in the processes of production and management of the built environment, namely, discussing the visibility and role of population groups with lower economic incomes, both focusing on non-Western contexts (in the experiences of Latin America, Asia and in Africa) and in the critical areas of the Western contexts (in the evolution of social policy and in its current situation).

The aim is to establish a broad understanding of issues related to the urbanization process, not only by discussing extreme conditions of disparities and / or limiting resources, but also by framing multi-stakeholder management mechanisms. In these contexts, the professional practice of the architect / urbanist is rarely placed solely in a client - service provider relationship, but rather the actors involved in the decision - making process, recurrently encompassing entities such as public structures for territorial regulation and social interest ( at the central, municipal and / or local level), external financiers, international agencies, nongovernmental organizations, local associations and / or inhabitants, placing the architect / urbanist in the role of mediator and facilitator.

Thus, it is proposed to build an informed view of paradoxical realities, discussing methodologies and intervention tools, constraints and potentialities, experiences and strategic orientations of work in extended teams.

50128C5 - ECTS

The main porpouse of the Architectural toys course is to develop the student's skills in the comprehension and conception of reintroduction process in the architectural field. Since the generic educative processes, to academic methods, is ask to the students to develop a theoretical approach in order to understand the different ways that the discipline found to educate the subject.

50132C5 - ECTS

“Que diferença entre um pilar de pedra de um dólmen e uma coluna de cimento armado. Enquanto naquele tudo é natureza, neste tudo é homem. Enquanto naquele a interferência do homem como ser pensante (e não propriamente como ser dotado de força motriz) é nula, esta é o resultado de um estudo e de um cálculo que representa um apogeu na história do homem.” [What a difference between a stone pillar of a dolmen and a column of concrete. While in that one all is nature, in this one all is man. While in that one the interference of man as a thinking being (and not exactly as being equipped with driven force) is null, this one is the result of a study and of a calculation that represents an apogee in the history of man.] (Fernando Távora)

 A project-of-architecture becomes lightning of the adventurous coherence that characterizes the practice of architecture: projecting, research and writing – word and design, experience and game.

In such a perspective, the aim is to study and participate in the evolution of architecture as controversial meeting between disciplinary practice and artistic experience – creation, thought, knowledge.

50129C5 - ECTS

1 Theoretical and practical aproach to public spaces as architectonic entities composed by all kinds of buildings, urban infrastructures and natural forms.
2. Comprehension of the Architecture of Public Space in the context of the Significant Forms, socialy inclusive and sustainable.
3. Experimental research and personal thinking practiced with the instruments of architecture (hand and computer design and modeling, subject to measure, geometry and construction reasoning); photo, bibliography and other iconography location and credits.
4 Selection of critical arguments for the architecture of Public Space supported by the experimental case study.
5. Case study will be chosen by the student among several proposes presented by the professor, either as an individual work and/or after the constitution of teams.

50137C5 - ECTS The Course will systematize the affinities between architecture and cinema. It will explore how urban and architectural space, real or staged,  is a constituent element of cinema, as well as the multiple dimensions in which cinema can be seen as a tool in the creative process, in the perception and dissemination of architecture.

It will address how the moving images have the capacity to create a 'sense of place', a phenomenon related not only to the physical reality of the filmed spaces but also to the experiential connection that the spectator establishes with light, sound, the mise-en-scène or narrative structure. The cinema represents the architectural spaces as 'inhabited' places, stimulating, thus, an intense debate around the architecture and the urban life.

50138C5 - ECTS .

50118C5 - ECTS

The general objectives of Communication, Photography and Multimedia (CFM) are twofold. On one hand, to give theoretical and practical knowledge for using critically photography as a research instrument and support for communicating and representing Architecture, city and Territory. On the other hand, to raise the awareness of students for using different qualitative methods to conduct research using visual instruments for inquiring critically those spaces.

Initially students are asked to analyze, question and confront a set of public spaces and architecture, exploring the potential of photography, as well as the accessibility and interactivity on the Internet for communicating different experiences and perceptions of urban space. During the semester the students create a visual portfolio using diverse collaborative platforms on the web. This portfolio consists of an interactive visual narrative made up with images and text supporting a set of ideas that posit a position, argument or story about a particular subject or problem of the urban area being studied.

This portfolio can be used later as the basis for a case study related to research on photography and digital media applied to the reading of public space and architecture, and therefore integrated in the work of the thesis to finalize the second cycle of the course.

50123C5 - ECTS

The discipline of Urban Economics aims to introduce a theoretical approach to some recurring themes of urban analysis perspective that allows framing the constraints posed by the economic structure of society to intervene in the city and the issues arising from the interaction of the urban system in the economic system.
The development of the subjects chosen shall be subject to optical proposed by economic theory, using disciplinary concepts that establish economic categories which are intended to identify such elements characterizing the process of urban transformation in contemporary society.

50126C5 - ECTS

To study various topics of architecture and/or urban design regarding the work of Alvaro Siza, trying to match, with an R&D view, the Semestral course-option with a collection of scientific publications, owned by the FAUP, that will constitute a School's contribution for the advancement of knowledge, with consequences that outweigh (although encompassing) the group of students who will enroll in the course.

50131C5 - ECTS

Identify and understand the historical process of formation and consolidation of physical Porto, between times of founding and refounding urban, integrated into the national and international context.

Develop a methodology for explaining historical confronting the different urban units within the city, between the "learn to see" and "know understanding", which constitute as historical and architectural narrative confrontation in the city of Porto and other European cities (exploiting origins of Erasmus students).

50120C5 - ECTS

Acquire a set of basic technical knowledge related to urban infrastructure necessary for the realization of an urban intervention. Perception of urban infrastructure systems, including storm drainage, water supply, collection and treatment of sewage (operating and design principles).

Identify, assess and characterize the technical aspects that influence the layout and implementation of urban infrastructure (without reaching the detail of the project execution).

50122C5 - ECTS

It is intended that students acquire a wide range of concepts and fundamentals of work related to landscape architecture and outside space, either on a project perspective, describing the actions of man over the territory, whether on a prospective perspective that relates project actions to the changes in functioning of landscapes and the ecossystems in which they operate.

 
We also intend to debate contemporary issues of design and sustainability of urban space as well as the project critic.

 

50134C5 - ECTS x

50130C5 - ECTS

1. Promote, experiment and develop theoretical and practical knowledge of BIM (building information modeling) methodology comprising the basic concepts during Architectural Project development as a process for innovation, research, management and architecture construction.

2. Promoting research on Architecture through project development simulating a real context of multidisciplinary and collaborative practice.

3. Collecting knowledge about BIM methodology application in international context in the vast AEC fields (architecture, engineering and construction) analyzing business context experiences and case studies and assessing advantages and disadvantages of applying the methodology in the production of an architectural idea.

4. In this course, the student should be able to use the available tools (individual selection of software and research methods) in order to apply BIM methodology in the development of a practical project developed by the student and an existing building case study.

50119C5 - ECTS

The UC has the following objectives: to make the students aware of the need of preservation and rehabilitation of the built heritage, to alert them for the most current causes of building pathologies associated with incorrect design and construction deficiencies and to provide them  with the knowledge that will allow them to recognize the most important building pathologies, determine their possible causes and to define the corresponding rehabilitation solution.

50129C5 - ECTS

1 Theoretical and practical aproach to public spaces as architectonic entities composed by all kinds of buildings, urban infrastructures and natural forms.
2. Comprehension of the Architecture of Public Space in the context of the Significant Forms, socialy inclusive and sustainable.
3. Experimental research and personal thinking practiced with the instruments of architecture (hand and computer design and modeling, subject to measure, geometry and construction reasoning); photo, bibliography and other iconography location and credits.
4 Selection of critical arguments for the architecture of Public Space supported by the experimental case study.
5. Case study will be chosen by the student among several proposes presented by the professor, either as an individual work and/or after the constitution of teams.

50131C5 - ECTS

Identify and understand the historical process of formation and consolidation of physical Porto, between times of founding and refounding urban, integrated into the national and international context.

Develop a methodology for explaining historical confronting the different urban units within the city, between the "learn to see" and "know understanding", which constitute as historical and architectural narrative confrontation in the city of Porto and other European cities (exploiting origins of Erasmus students).

400406 - ECTS

The aim of this module is to stimulate in the student an understanding of the mechanisms of urban land production in its technical aspects pertaining to the conceptual domain of planning and the various dimensions of the theoretical debate currently underway within the discipline.
Special attention will be paid to the relationship between planning instruments and the building of the consensus necessary for their implementation, taking as reference the situation in Portugal and seeking to relate the subject to the legal and material means available in the planning process.
Finally, the question of decision as the ability to define objectives, reconcile uncertainties, establish consensus and identify urban forms will be introduced.

500504 - ECTS

500501 - ECTS

Continuing the program, contents and teaching methodology underlying the course developed by Professor Manuel Fernandes de Sá, the aim is to promote a pedagogical process that enables a deep reflection on the territory, the city, the object or the architectural ensemble and considers their interactions, in order to provide the future architect with the ability to intervene in a changing environment, full of differences and uncertainties.

The course Projecto 5 tries to “provide the conditions that allow the development of a thorough reflection on the issues of the city and the territory, discussing methods of approach and planning instruments; disclosing strategic thinking for intervention; proposing ways of managing the uncertainty that underlies the intervention in the city, introducing the issue of multidisciplinary approach and practising the design of the city and the control of urban scale” (Manuel Fernandes de Sá, 2003).

50135C5 - ECTS Nowadays, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, with around a quarter of this population living in extreme precarious conditions and an additional portion facing relevant gaps in its habitat. Estimates seem to indicate that this percentage has declined, but numbers will have increased, and the inequity of economic incomes will also have increased, especially in the economies considered as more developed.

In this way, the debate on equity is a global issue, from the countries of the North to the countries of the South, and that action in the environment built for more equitable spaces and democratic access to urban resources is, a challenge for architects and urban planners.

Given the most recent and contrasting global dynamics of urbanization and the current professional challenges placed at the international level, this curricular unit intends to create a theoretical and practical field of discussion around the spatialization of poverty and the disparities in this process of urbanization, social concerns in the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism, as well as the limitations and potentialities of redistributive policies, social interest and fair management of the built environment.

Thus, it is proposed here the study of the disparities in the processes of production and management of the built environment, namely, discussing the visibility and role of population groups with lower economic incomes, both focusing on non-Western contexts (in the experiences of Latin America, Asia and in Africa) and in the critical areas of the Western contexts (in the evolution of social policy and in its current situation).

The aim is to establish a broad understanding of issues related to the urbanization process, not only by discussing extreme conditions of disparities and / or limiting resources, but also by framing multi-stakeholder management mechanisms. In these contexts, the professional practice of the architect / urbanist is rarely placed solely in a client - service provider relationship, but rather the actors involved in the decision - making process, recurrently encompassing entities such as public structures for territorial regulation and social interest ( at the central, municipal and / or local level), external financiers, international agencies, nongovernmental organizations, local associations and / or inhabitants, placing the architect / urbanist in the role of mediator and facilitator.

Thus, it is proposed to build an informed view of paradoxical realities, discussing methodologies and intervention tools, constraints and potentialities, experiences and strategic orientations of work in extended teams.

50128C5 - ECTS

The main porpouse of the Architectural toys course is to develop the student's skills in the comprehension and conception of reintroduction process in the architectural field. Since the generic educative processes, to academic methods, is ask to the students to develop a theoretical approach in order to understand the different ways that the discipline found to educate the subject.

50132C5 - ECTS

“Que diferença entre um pilar de pedra de um dólmen e uma coluna de cimento armado. Enquanto naquele tudo é natureza, neste tudo é homem. Enquanto naquele a interferência do homem como ser pensante (e não propriamente como ser dotado de força motriz) é nula, esta é o resultado de um estudo e de um cálculo que representa um apogeu na história do homem.” [What a difference between a stone pillar of a dolmen and a column of concrete. While in that one all is nature, in this one all is man. While in that one the interference of man as a thinking being (and not exactly as being equipped with driven force) is null, this one is the result of a study and of a calculation that represents an apogee in the history of man.] (Fernando Távora)

 A project-of-architecture becomes lightning of the adventurous coherence that characterizes the practice of architecture: projecting, research and writing – word and design, experience and game.

In such a perspective, the aim is to study and participate in the evolution of architecture as controversial meeting between disciplinary practice and artistic experience – creation, thought, knowledge.

50129C5 - ECTS

1 Theoretical and practical aproach to public spaces as architectonic entities composed by all kinds of buildings, urban infrastructures and natural forms.
2. Comprehension of the Architecture of Public Space in the context of the Significant Forms, socialy inclusive and sustainable.
3. Experimental research and personal thinking practiced with the instruments of architecture (hand and computer design and modeling, subject to measure, geometry and construction reasoning); photo, bibliography and other iconography location and credits.
4 Selection of critical arguments for the architecture of Public Space supported by the experimental case study.
5. Case study will be chosen by the student among several proposes presented by the professor, either as an individual work and/or after the constitution of teams.

50137C5 - ECTS The Course will systematize the affinities between architecture and cinema. It will explore how urban and architectural space, real or staged,  is a constituent element of cinema, as well as the multiple dimensions in which cinema can be seen as a tool in the creative process, in the perception and dissemination of architecture.

It will address how the moving images have the capacity to create a 'sense of place', a phenomenon related not only to the physical reality of the filmed spaces but also to the experiential connection that the spectator establishes with light, sound, the mise-en-scène or narrative structure. The cinema represents the architectural spaces as 'inhabited' places, stimulating, thus, an intense debate around the architecture and the urban life.

50138C5 - ECTS .

50118C5 - ECTS

The general objectives of Communication, Photography and Multimedia (CFM) are twofold. On one hand, to give theoretical and practical knowledge for using critically photography as a research instrument and support for communicating and representing Architecture, city and Territory. On the other hand, to raise the awareness of students for using different qualitative methods to conduct research using visual instruments for inquiring critically those spaces.

Initially students are asked to analyze, question and confront a set of public spaces and architecture, exploring the potential of photography, as well as the accessibility and interactivity on the Internet for communicating different experiences and perceptions of urban space. During the semester the students create a visual portfolio using diverse collaborative platforms on the web. This portfolio consists of an interactive visual narrative made up with images and text supporting a set of ideas that posit a position, argument or story about a particular subject or problem of the urban area being studied.

This portfolio can be used later as the basis for a case study related to research on photography and digital media applied to the reading of public space and architecture, and therefore integrated in the work of the thesis to finalize the second cycle of the course.

50123C5 - ECTS

The discipline of Urban Economics aims to introduce a theoretical approach to some recurring themes of urban analysis perspective that allows framing the constraints posed by the economic structure of society to intervene in the city and the issues arising from the interaction of the urban system in the economic system.
The development of the subjects chosen shall be subject to optical proposed by economic theory, using disciplinary concepts that establish economic categories which are intended to identify such elements characterizing the process of urban transformation in contemporary society.

50126C5 - ECTS

To study various topics of architecture and/or urban design regarding the work of Alvaro Siza, trying to match, with an R&D view, the Semestral course-option with a collection of scientific publications, owned by the FAUP, that will constitute a School's contribution for the advancement of knowledge, with consequences that outweigh (although encompassing) the group of students who will enroll in the course.

50131C5 - ECTS

Identify and understand the historical process of formation and consolidation of physical Porto, between times of founding and refounding urban, integrated into the national and international context.

Develop a methodology for explaining historical confronting the different urban units within the city, between the "learn to see" and "know understanding", which constitute as historical and architectural narrative confrontation in the city of Porto and other European cities (exploiting origins of Erasmus students).

50120C5 - ECTS

Acquire a set of basic technical knowledge related to urban infrastructure necessary for the realization of an urban intervention. Perception of urban infrastructure systems, including storm drainage, water supply, collection and treatment of sewage (operating and design principles).

Identify, assess and characterize the technical aspects that influence the layout and implementation of urban infrastructure (without reaching the detail of the project execution).

50122C5 - ECTS

It is intended that students acquire a wide range of concepts and fundamentals of work related to landscape architecture and outside space, either on a project perspective, describing the actions of man over the territory, whether on a prospective perspective that relates project actions to the changes in functioning of landscapes and the ecossystems in which they operate.

 
We also intend to debate contemporary issues of design and sustainability of urban space as well as the project critic.

 

50134C5 - ECTS x

50130C5 - ECTS

1. Promote, experiment and develop theoretical and practical knowledge of BIM (building information modeling) methodology comprising the basic concepts during Architectural Project development as a process for innovation, research, management and architecture construction.

2. Promoting research on Architecture through project development simulating a real context of multidisciplinary and collaborative practice.

3. Collecting knowledge about BIM methodology application in international context in the vast AEC fields (architecture, engineering and construction) analyzing business context experiences and case studies and assessing advantages and disadvantages of applying the methodology in the production of an architectural idea.

4. In this course, the student should be able to use the available tools (individual selection of software and research methods) in order to apply BIM methodology in the development of a practical project developed by the student and an existing building case study.

50119C5 - ECTS

The UC has the following objectives: to make the students aware of the need of preservation and rehabilitation of the built heritage, to alert them for the most current causes of building pathologies associated with incorrect design and construction deficiencies and to provide them  with the knowledge that will allow them to recognize the most important building pathologies, determine their possible causes and to define the corresponding rehabilitation solution.

500505 - ECTS

 

- To identify dominant patterns of urbanization, advancing with explanatory hypotheses of the processes that gave rise to them;

 

- To identify drivers of change and structuring actors considered for the understanding of the processes of urbanization and to design intervention strategies and urban design/planning.

 

50129C5 - ECTS

1 Theoretical and practical aproach to public spaces as architectonic entities composed by all kinds of buildings, urban infrastructures and natural forms.
2. Comprehension of the Architecture of Public Space in the context of the Significant Forms, socialy inclusive and sustainable.
3. Experimental research and personal thinking practiced with the instruments of architecture (hand and computer design and modeling, subject to measure, geometry and construction reasoning); photo, bibliography and other iconography location and credits.
4 Selection of critical arguments for the architecture of Public Space supported by the experimental case study.
5. Case study will be chosen by the student among several proposes presented by the professor, either as an individual work and/or after the constitution of teams.

50131C5 - ECTS

Identify and understand the historical process of formation and consolidation of physical Porto, between times of founding and refounding urban, integrated into the national and international context.

Develop a methodology for explaining historical confronting the different urban units within the city, between the "learn to see" and "know understanding", which constitute as historical and architectural narrative confrontation in the city of Porto and other European cities (exploiting origins of Erasmus students).