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
(ways, techniques and systems of representation) – in such a way that it favours a free and effective construction of images closely related to the graphic concept in 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.

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".

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

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

300304 - ECTS

The knowledge of systems and building materials is a fundamental aspect to the act of design in architecture. A critical assessment of this knowledge can guide and justify the decision-making on project solutions. 

The knowledge acquired in the course Construção 1 will be further developed in Construção 2 through its relationship with the current construction processes, particularly in the context of housing production.

1. From the fundamental principles of building science, realize the production and architectural form;
2. In the framework of contemporary usage, understand the typological structure of the main constructive elements that form the outer envelope and the inner partitioning of buildings;
3. In building design, recognizing the importance of climatic factors, sustainability and the principles of conservation of energy resources;
4. In the context of the executive project in architecture, understand and be able to adapt the communication elements to the building site;
5. Understand the act of designing and building in its multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary technology.

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.

3UP3A - ECTS

300301 - ECTS

Objectives
Project III takes for granted the previously acquiring of methodological skills and handling the technical design 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 community housing and the city as a framework and on, are proposed and carried out a series of exercises enhancers experimentation, reflection and enhance the ability of materialization projectual extending 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 learning phase of the discipline in which they are, justify a more skill-experience-the banal, of the trial of exceptionality or the exercise of speculation programmatic, functional and artistic -- not with the disdain it-before with the knowledge that 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

Urbanistica 1 is a theoretical approach to the development of city planning. In this discipline, Urban Theory is understood from an interdisciplinary perspective, using historical methods to analyse urban concepts and practices through time; enhancing their successes and failures in different contexts: from the "advanced" countries to the “Third World.”
A particular attention is given to the twentieth century, especially to the period of interwar Europe, and especially to the post-World War II, in which a new "corpus" of planning activities emerged, supported by other scientific disciplines.
In this sense Urbanística 1 is not a History discipline, but a critical survey on different urban cultures through time, crossing geographical and historical perspectives to better understand the facts and discourses within their urban contexts.

30317B3 - ECTS

The supports and tools of representation are key factors in the design, development and communication of the architecture project. With the introduction of the computer in the project process, new challenges and opportunities arise and they deal not only with their  specific possibilities but also with their relation to the traditional analogue processes like hand drafting.

This UC is an introduction to this digital condition and has the following objectives:
- study the fundamentals of drafting and digital 2D and 3D modelling;
- test digital production techniques and printing of design drawings and images;
- reflect on the relation between digital and manual drafting processes.

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).

30316B3 - ECTS Verifica-se entre os estudantes uma notória dificuldade em observar e anotar, com rapidez e eficiência, muitos dos factos e formas relevantes na observação de imagens de projectos e daí organizando uma reconstituição gráfica e mental. De modo a complementar a celeridade dos meios de difusão de imagens arquitectónicas correntes na internet, perdendo-se o processo mais lento e o hábito de “estudo de projecto”, interessa fomentar a capacidade de concentrar o olhar sobre os factos relevantes de uma imagem, de um desenho ou de um comentário, de forma rápida e eficaz. Consequentemente, o objectivo da UC é ajudar a criar a capacidade de observar, compreender e representar, pelo desenho rápido, das formas e factos essenciais de uma análise de projectos.

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).

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 architecture and Portuguese culture of the territory. It aims at forming a knowledge with the measure of references of other architectures (from Iberian, Mediterranean and European areas and possibly other parts of the world), that enables understanding the encounter of cultures, interpreting signs of specificity and thinking about the sense of identity in 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

The issue of this UC:  PUBLIC SPACE & PUBLIC FACILITIES

1. The pursuit of a definition of Public Space as a category of Architecture, that is, a set of spacial forms dictated by the universal principles of order, proportion, economy and others, as well as by circumstantal reasons of social values, state of the art and nature. Methodical quest of principles and circunstances.
Concepts acquired in precedent units of architectural theory will be enlarged and methods oriented towards autonomous thinking required for nestling personal research fields.
2. State of the art of architectual theory. Pluri and interdisciplinarity, towards an outline of the fields of Architecture and Urban Design . Science, Art and Technics. Theory and Criticism, Design and Construction. Literature of Architecture, from the Classic Books to contemporary publications ( generalist and speciality).
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. Autonomous choice and enunciation of Architectural issues.
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.

50135C5 - ECTS

 

- To identify dominant patterns of urbanization of poverty, mainnly in Africa, Latin America and India, 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.
 to design intervention strategies and urban design/planning.

 

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:
  i) to move a research project, being this one promoted as practicable of learnings, object of study, objective in apprenticeship;
  ii) to study and participate in the evolution of architecture as controversial meeting between disciplinary practice and artistic experience – creation, thought, knowledge.

50129C5 - ECTS

1 Develop the approarch to Public Spaces as architectónic Formas that structure significant urban facts.
2 To promote experimental research and personal thinking  practiced with the instruments of architecture (hand and computers design, measure, mathematics, photography, graphic design for image and text edition ), bibliography and iconography , location and search of primary sources of data (archives, personal interviews).
3 State of the art about Public Space design, through empirical studies of Portuguese or foreign cases, as an exercise of methodical search for universal laws of Architecture, for circumstantial reasons, for strategies of responsive innovation both in buildings and urbanism.
4 Student must be able to formulate, in a clear way, critical arguments of architecture supported by emprical work results, under the form of a research project.
Case study will be chosen by the student but necessarily visited.

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).

50136C5 - ECTS

This course aims to create a theoretical field of discussion around the issues related to architectural intervention in archaeological context, addressing methods of analysis and intervention tools as well as work experience carried out by cross-disciplinary teams.

It is also objective of the discipline to enhance the formation of theoretical reflection groups and / or preparation of intervention projects in that area, in particular for developing Master Theses in FAUP, in conjunction with other educational institutions and the Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (CEAU-FAUP); strengthening the cooperation with international partners, in terms of dimensions of research and knowledge transfer.

4UP4 - ECTS

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

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.

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

Acording to article 20th, nr. 1, b) of Decreto-Lei nº 74/2006, of March 24th, reggarding the structure of MsC degree cicle of studies includes a dissertation of sciencific nature or a project, original and specially developed for this purpose (...)

This Curricular Unit has the purposes of

1) Promoting scientific curiosity and academis integrity, as fundamental capabilities for the achievement of a Dissertation of a theoretical, or theoretical and practical nature, whose contents and methods produce accurate and original results in the field of Architecture.

2) To inform and exemplify the structure of scientif works, methods of research and comunication according to academic standars.

3) To promote the autonomy of the MIARQ student of FAUP towards the definition of personal scientific interests and foccusing of a problem that may be adjusted to the time and material resources assigned for the work.

4) To support the student's initiatives for a scientific tutor's choice, either from FAUP ou UP or external. To promote the tempestive elaboration of the Studies Plan and its submition to the Scientific Comitee.

5) To offer a specific space and teaching time that favour the framing and porsuit of the personal work within an  environment of critical team force, from the starting phases of problem definition to final phases of dissertation writing and public comunication 

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

 

- To identify dominant patterns of urbanization of poverty, mainnly in Africa, Latin America and India, 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.
 to design intervention strategies and urban design/planning.

 

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:
  i) to move a research project, being this one promoted as practicable of learnings, object of study, objective in apprenticeship;
  ii) to study and participate in the evolution of architecture as controversial meeting between disciplinary practice and artistic experience – creation, thought, knowledge.

50129C5 - ECTS

1 Develop the approarch to Public Spaces as architectónic Formas that structure significant urban facts.
2 To promote experimental research and personal thinking  practiced with the instruments of architecture (hand and computers design, measure, mathematics, photography, graphic design for image and text edition ), bibliography and iconography , location and search of primary sources of data (archives, personal interviews).
3 State of the art about Public Space design, through empirical studies of Portuguese or foreign cases, as an exercise of methodical search for universal laws of Architecture, for circumstantial reasons, for strategies of responsive innovation both in buildings and urbanism.
4 Student must be able to formulate, in a clear way, critical arguments of architecture supported by emprical work results, under the form of a research project.
Case study will be chosen by the student but necessarily visited.

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).

50136C5 - ECTS

This course aims to create a theoretical field of discussion around the issues related to architectural intervention in archaeological context, addressing methods of analysis and intervention tools as well as work experience carried out by cross-disciplinary teams.

It is also objective of the discipline to enhance the formation of theoretical reflection groups and / or preparation of intervention projects in that area, in particular for developing Master Theses in FAUP, in conjunction with other educational institutions and the Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (CEAU-FAUP); strengthening the cooperation with international partners, in terms of dimensions of research and knowledge transfer.

5UP5 - ECTS

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

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.

 

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).