SPT-PDA2020 - ECTS

MI1-PDA2020 - ECTS Assess key research topics in architecture, know several possible research methodologies and work examples, acquire critical and analytical competences relating to a variety of scientific production practices.

OPT1-PDA2020 - ECTS Domain of images: understanding the nature, types, methods, modes, functions and values of images. Knowing different theoretical, critical and interpretative orientations. Understand methodological concepts from philosophy, art history, anthropology, hermeneutics and phenomenology. Consider the study of the image as an over-determined and open interpretation (Freud).
Instrumental and methodological skills: researching names, notions, concepts, discourses and narratives (documentary archives and theoretical devices); describing, characterising, identifying; interpreting images and image systems (montage and the atlas - Warburg)

OPT2-PDA2020 - ECTS The course "Project: Mimesis, Contrast and Analogy" has as main objectives:
1. Based on project examples (especially in the context of heritage), reflect on the decision-making process and on the relationship of transformation and continuity with existing material (natural or constructed);
2. Knoledge of the circumstances that, in each project presented, allowed to recognize values (or non-values) that incorporated the design decisions;
3. Contribute to a greater awareness and to a wider body of knowledge around the project culture - crossing and confronting the authorial dimension with the power of the existing reality.

1SI1-PDA2020 - ECTS

The UC Research Seminar 1 aims to promote the development of a research methodology in architecture from the critical reading of primary sources (architectural works, drawings and texts) and the analysis and discussion of different research methods. It is about training students to critically read different materials and methodologies and stimulate their ability to problematize in order to bring about an investigation process appropriate to the realization of their Thesis Project.

2T1-PDA2020 - ECTS

In the face of the complexity of two phenomena and two processes of conformation and transformation of the city (reflected on the difficulty that we have to characterize and conceptualize what we call today city), one of the main objective objectives of UC is to produce a reflection on the current urban condition; namely trying to understand this condition and the complexity and extension of phenomena, in the light of a long and critical approach that allows us to learn about the diversity and multiplicity of themes and problems that are underlying the urban phenomenon.
It will also be proposed to analyze the multiple forms that the city and the urban enclose in contemporary times, as constructed realities that result from desires, policies, and socio-productive and technical dynamics, and that are materialized through different actors, with intervention and management responsibilities.
In a time caracterized by the generalization of frequently mismatched actions and methodologies of hardly intelligible realities (and which must necessarily be interpreted in the scope of a new urban epistemology) it will be attempted to develop an objective and circumstantial analysis of urban phenomena, seeking to understand the main themes, problems, and challenges that arise in urban planning, urban design, public space design and architecture in the materialization of “new urban construction”
Considering these objectives, it becomes inevitable to understand and analyze paradigm changes in the construction of the city, but also the invariants that throughout the “long time” of the city are characterized by the reiterated interaction between programs, plans, and projects.
Covering diversified disciplinary themes and contexts, this UC also has, as specific objectives, the acquisition of analytical skills and development of critical and open-minded approaches, privileging research processes as forms of production of operational and strategic knowledge that stimulate a personal and innovative reading of the topics and problems identified.

MI2-PDA2020 - ECTS Strengthen knowledge about architectural research methods.

Adapt scientific research processes to architectural representation languages.

Promote the use of specific architectural tools in the production of knowledge.

Develop critical thinking skills on architectural topics.

Share practical research experiences.

OPT4-PDA2020 - ECTS

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

In recent years, the evolution and dissemination of digital technologies (DT) are transforming the conditions for the development of architectural practice. We have reached a point where DT can interfere at any stage in the design process, from design to construction, through analysis, simulation, communication, and manufacturing.

In this context, the main objective of this course is to introduce reference practices of contemporary architecture that use a digital approach to integrate all dimensions of the design project development. In addition, it wants to establish links between the digital transformation of the discipline and the current environmental and societal challenges.

 

OPT5-PDA2020 - ECTS

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

In recent years, the evolution and dissemination of digital technologies (DT) are transforming the conditions for the development of architectural practice. We have reached a point where DT can interfere at any stage in the design process, from design to construction, through analysis, simulation, communication, and manufacturing.

In this context, the main objective of this course is to introduce reference practices of contemporary architecture that use a digital approach to integrate all dimensions of the design project development. In addition, it wants to establish links between the digital transformation of the discipline and the current environmental and societal challenges.

 

OPT6-PDA2020 - ECTS Aims
Facilitate, question and debate the following concepts: 1) landscape dimension; 2) environmental dimension; 3) urban territory.

1SI2-PDA2020 - ECTS The UC Research Seminar 2 has as its main objective, in articulation and continuity with the UC Research Seminar 1, to promote and stimulate or development of research methodologies in the field of architecture. It seeks, on the other hand, to promote and stimulate the problematization and discussion around questions and specific problems of each option of studies, training students for critical analysis and reflection, and subsequent preparation of the thesis project.

2T2-PDA2020 - ECTS -

Tese-PDA2020 - ECTS

Tese-PDA2020 - ECTS