Architectural toys - Complementary process for Architectural disciplinary reproduction

Code:

50128C5

Acronym:

50128C5

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Architecture and Urbanism

Instance: 2017/2018 - 1S

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	37	MIARQ	4	-	3	-	81
			5

Teaching language

English

Objectives

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.

Learning outcomes and competences

To map a territory of comprehension and of discussion is a necessary operation in order to proceed for an articulation of this territory considered as a research corpus. This operation is based on the idea that architectural toys are higly evocative artifacts that exist at the origin of the will, sometime explicit, sometime implicit, to reproduce the architecture’s disciplinary field.

Behind that is possible to map a relationship between the ludic object of the child universe and it’s correspondent in the adult world with their disciplinary dependency.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

The curse is based on the competencies of the previous years.

Program

1. Theoretical introduction to the course and at the main issues.
2. The little man - until the XVII century, a world without child
3. The child invention - de discovery of childhood and the processes of individual education
4. Teaching and education - formal and informal processes of knowledge transmission
5. The vanguards and the education - Architectural education in the first half of the XX century
6. The post-war - The architectural education in the second half of the XX century
7. The contemporaneity - new forms of disciplinary spread.
8. Toy design - some routes.

Mandatory literature

Beatriz Colomina; Cold War hot houses : inventing postwar culture, from plastics to Playboy. , Princeton Architectural ;;Hi Marketing, 2003. ISBN: 9781568983028
Canadian Centre for Architecture; Architecture potentielle jeux de construction de la collection du CCA = Potential architecture: construction toys from the CCA Collection. , Canadian Centre for Architecture. ISBN: 9780920785133
Juan Bordes; La infancia de las vanguardias: sus profesores desde Rousseau a la Bauhaus, Cátedra, Madrid, 2007. ISBN: 9788437624266
Norman Brosterman; Inventing kindergarten, H.N. Abrams, 1997. ISBN: 9780810935266
Maria Casanova; Infancia y Arte Moderno, IVAM Centre Julio González, 1998. ISBN: 8448219422
Marta Gutman; Designing modern childhoods: history, space, and the material culture of children, Rutgers University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780813541952
Karen Hewitt, Louise Roomet; Educational Toys in America 1800 to the Present, University Press of New England, 1980. ISBN: 978-0874519884
Henry Petrosky; Toying with architecture: the building toy in the arena of play, 1800 to the present., Katonah Museum of Art, 1997. ISBN: 9780915171477
MIchel Manson; História do brinquedo e dos jogos brincar através dos tempos, Editorial Teorema, 2002. ISBN: 9789726955221
Juan Bordes; Toys of the avant-garde, Museo Picasso Málaga, 2010. ISBN: 9788493723361
Carles Pérez; Juguetes de las vanguardias, Museo Picasso Málaga, 2010. ISBN: 9788493723354
Flavio Santi; Construire, une passion: les jeux de construction de 1850 à nos jours, Quiquandquoi, 2002. ISBN: 9782940317059
Alexander Von Vegesack; Kid size: the material world of childhood., Skira;Vitra Design Museum, 1997. ISBN: 9788881182541
Tamar Zinguer; Architecture in play: intimations of modernism in architectural toys, 1836-1952, Princeton University, 2006
Bordes Juan 340; Los juguetes de las vanguardias. ISBN: 978-84-937233-5-4
Bordes Juan; Historia de los juguetes de construcción. ISBN: 978-84-376-3065-6

Complementary Bibliography

Marcy Abhau; Architecture in education: a resource of imaginative ideas & tested activities, Foundation for Architecture, Philadelphia, PA., 1992. ISBN: 0-9622908-0-7
Walter Benjamin; Reflexões sobre a criança, o brinquedo e a educação, Ed. 34 [u.a.], 2002. ISBN: 9788573262346
Lloyd DeMause; The history of childhood, 1st softcover ed., 1995. ISBN: 9781568215518
Ariés Philipe; A Criança e a Vida Familiar no Antigo Regime, Relógio D` Água, 1988. ISBN: 978972772881
André Burguière; História da Família, Terramar, 1999. ISBN: 972-710-135-6

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course is divided in two main routes: one theoretical and the other practical. The theoretic is based on a research around one of the issues addressed during the lessons. The practical part is represent by a design exercise.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	30,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Trabalho laboratorial	40,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification is based on the works evaluation and on the student performance during the lessons.