Some contemporary books

Code:

50150C5

Acronym:

ALCSCB

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Architecture and Urbanism

Instance: 2019/2020 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Arquitectura (A)
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Degree in Architecture

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIARQ	6	MIARQ	4	-	3	21	81
			5

Teaching language

English

Objectives

The course intends to make the students conversant with contemporary architecture theory, understood in a broad temporal arch encompassing the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. It should convey the analytical skills necessary for a material and technological analysis of books as well as the critical skills necessary to frame the ambitions and the positions of contemporary titles and the relevance and currency of older ones.

Learning outcomes and competences

Understood as places of emergence and proliferation of architecture theory, we will question the titles in the syllabus both as material objects as well as epicenters of much wider disciplinary earthquakes, nodal points that render vast polemics.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Syllabus:

Adolf Behne: The Modern Functional Building (1926)

Le Corbusier: Towards an Architecture (1923)

Ludwig Hilberseimer: The Architecture of the Great City (1927)

Le Corbusier: Urbanisme (1925)

Adolf Loos: Spoken into the Void (1897-1900), 1921

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Painting, Photography, and Film (1925)

Paul Klee: Pedagogical Sketchebook (1925)

Walter Gropius: International Architecture (1925)

Sigfried Giedion: Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferro-Concrete (1928)

Siegfried Ebeling: Space as Membrane (1926)

Bruno Taut: Modern Architecture (1928)

Moisei Ginzburg: Style and Epoch (1924)

Mandatory literature

Adolf Loos; Dicho en el vacío. ISBN: 84-505-0132-6
Le Corbusier; Vers une architecture. ISBN: 2-7003-0188-9
Le Corbusier; Urbanisme. ISBN: 2-7003-0310-5
Siegfried Giedion; Construire en France, construire en fer, construire en beton. ISBN: 2-903539-55-3
Adolf Behne; The modern functional building. ISBN: 0-89236-364-9
Moisj Ja. Ginzburg; Saggi sull.architettura costruttivista
Ludwig Hilberseimer; La arquitectura de la gran ciudad. ISBN: 84-252-1798-9
László Moholy-Nagy; Pintura, fotografía, cine y otros escritos sobre fotografía. ISBN: 84-252-1984-1
Bruno Taut; Modern architecture
Paul Klee; Pedagogical Sketchbook, 1925
Walter Gropius; International Architecture, 1925
Siegfried Ebeling; Space as Membrane, 1926

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course unfolds through a combination of lectures in English in which the teacher presents, contextualizes and debates the titles, followed by seminar sessions in which the students present the titles they intend to reflect upon. The final outcome of the course is an individual essay, with approximately 1500 words, properly argued and according to the best scholarly practices and protocols regarding originality and academic responsibility. The grade will evaluate the essay and the seminar presentation.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	30,00
Frequência das aulas	21,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Atendance

Calculation formula of final grade

20% atendance and participation
80% final written submission