Architecture and Design 2

Code:

30319B3

Acronym:

30319B3

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Architecture and Urbanism

Instance: 2023/2024 - 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	84	MIARQ	3	-	3	-	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The haste promoted by the diffusion methods of architectural images present throughout the internet, potentiate the loss not only of the slow process of assimilation but also of the habit of “project studying”. As a means of complementing such fleeting perceptions, and furthermore as a pedagogical objective, it is important to advance the ability of focusing the attention, with acuity and efficiency, on the relevant facts of an image, a drawing, or a comment.

Intending to overtake some difficulties among students in identifying, observing, recording, and retaining, with both celerity and effectiveness, many of the structural facts and forms of composing an architectural work, the purpose of this CU is to help propel and develop the ability to observe, identify, and understand (and depict by means of a quick drawing) the architectural signifiers essential to the project analysis.

Learning outcomes and competences

The Course Unit will allow not only to profoundly know a set of fundamental architectural works but also, and especially, to refine the ability to analyse, with both quickness and accuracy, as well as register through drawing, what otherwise is nothing more than a succession of images more or less impressive. The aim lies in questioning the ways of looking and, moreover, in deepening the observation and analysis acuity, fundamental for the comprehension and memorization of an architecture work.

Working method

Presencial

Program

From a set of singular cases of multifamily housing buildings, the Course Unit explores the varied meanings drawing acquires in the context of projecting: drawing as a means of creation and communication but, mainly, as a way of thinking, perceiving, and doing architecture; and drawing further regarded as a preferential tool for the attentive study of the project – its options/conceptual models and respective themes/composition principals.

A case study will be presented per session, thematically specified and framed within the theory and history of architecture. Each session will be given by a guest professor.

 

Mandatory literature

Aurora Fernández Per; 10 historias sobre vivienda colectiva. ISBN: 978-84-615-9883-0
Fil Hearn; Ideas that shaped buildings
Ignacio de Solà-Morales; Diferencias. ISBN: 84-252-1663-X
Ignacio de Solà-Morales; Eclecticismo y vanguardia
Ignacio de Solà-Morales; Intervenciones. ISBN: 84-252-2043-2
Ignasi de Solà-Morales; Los^artículos de Any. ISBN: 978-84-936693-6-2
Ignasi de Solà-Morales; Territorios. ISBN: 84-252-1864-0
Joan Ockman; Architecture culture 1943-1968. ISBN: 0-8478-1522-6
Kate Nesbitt; Theorizing a new agenda for architecture. ISBN: 1-56898-053-1
Oliver Heckmann; Floor plan manual housing. ISBN: 978-3-0346-0708-7
Rafael Moneo; La solitudine degli edifici e altri scritti. ISBN: 88-422-0923-6
Rafael Moneo; Inquietud teórica y estrategia proyectual. ISBN: 84-95951-68-1
Roger Sherwood; Modern housing prototypes
Pierluigi Nicolin; Lotus International

Teaching methods and learning activities

The Course Unit is programmed to comprise 12 sessions presenting works and projects, each lasting 2 hours. In these classes, as the presentation takes place the students will be executing the schemas, drawings, or representations appropriate to a predominantly graphic translation of the matter under consideration, experimenting personal systems of interpretation and expression. The used medium must necessarily be paper, in the format A4. The work done by each student will be handed at the end of every class. Periodically, comments about samples and paradigmatic examples of the works already submitted by students will be provided.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	40,00
Trabalho laboratorial	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	0,00
Trabalho escrito	0,00
Total:	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Participation in at least 75% of the classes and submitting the respective works.

Calculation formula of final grade