History of Ancient and Medieval Architecture

Code:

200202

Acronym:

200202

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Architecture and Urbanism

Instance: 2018/2019 - A

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	149	MIARQ	1	-	9	-	243

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

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. 

Learning outcomes and competences

Identify and differentiate the foundations of ancient and medieval architectural production, considered the functional, formal, constructive and symbolic.

Recognize the historical context as an essential basis for the study of architectural and urban units as wholes physical and cultural.

Acquire an interrogative structure that guides the student to study the history of architecture as a specific approach to understanding the architectural cultural identity, whatever the time and place.

Working method

Presencial

Program

I – HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE 
1. The symbolic signification inherent in Man. 
2. The historic dimensions of human appropriation of space and time: individual and society, territory and city, inhabitation and economic production. 

II EASTERN ANTIQUITY – Territory, City and Architecture 
1. The continental territories of the great rivers: the settlement of agricultural societies and the organisation of space. 
2. Mesopotamia: cities and monumental architecture. 
3. Ancient Egypt: territorial and political unity, urban units, stone architecture of temples and tombs. 


III CLASSIC ANTIQUITY – Territory, City and Architecture 
1. The emergence of territorial insularity of the Aegean and the Mediterranean; space and time. 
2. Crete: the palatial architectonic matrix. 
3. Greece: classic city and Hellenistic city, Greek sanctuary and temple. 
4. Rome: imperial urban matrix and civic architecture. 

IV MIDDLE AGES - Territory, City and Architecture 
1. Territorial fragmentation and the emergence of the local as a counterpoint to the universal in terms of Christendom. 
2. Ruralisation of the West – castles and monastic complexes. 
3. Urban renaissance – reduced city and urban expansion movements, episcopal city and new urban creations in the models of bastide and villes neuves, city limits, forms and architectures. 
4. Religious monumental architectures: units of the High Middle Ages, Roman church and Gothic cathedral. 

Mandatory literature

Benevolo Leonardo; Introdução à arquitectura
Benevolo Leonardo; Diseno de la ciudad. ISBN: 84-252-1023-2
Corboz André 080; Haut moyen age
Giedion Siegfried; El presente eterno. ISBN: 84-206-7022-2
Maciel M. Justino 730; Vitruvio. ISBN: 972-8469-44-6
Martienssen Rex D.; La idea del espacio en la arquitectura griega
Morris A. E. J.; História de la forma urbana. ISBN: 978-84-252-1181-2
Muller Werner; Atlas de Arquitectura. ISBN: 84-206-6997-0
Norberg-Schulz Christian; Arquitectura Occidental
Norberg-Schulz Christian; Existencia,Espacio y Arquitectura. ISBN: 84-7031-233-2
Pallottini Mariano; Alle origini della città europea. ISBN: 88-7097-035-3
Simson Otto Von 070; A catedral gótica. ISBN: 972-23-1304-5
Stierlin Henri; A Grécia. ISBN: 3-8228-7238-5
Stierlin Henri; O Império Romano. ISBN: 3-8228-8486-3
Wildung Dietrich; O Egipto. ISBN: 3-8228-1272-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures of the contents of the program.
Theoretical and practical preparation of monographic studies of analysis and interpretation of individual cases of architecture and city related to the content of the program. Each study will be developed in groups 4-5 students and will last the school year, with three time points (two interim and one final). In these studies it promotes the ability to search and graphical literature, as well as discussion and oral and written expression and attitudes of questioning and learning. In practical classes the work will be monitored on a schedule of attendance with fortnightly periodicity allowing the performance of tasks involving the coordination of groups at the practical class.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Teste	40,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	60,00
Frequência das aulas	75,00
Trabalho de investigação	68,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	243,00

Eligibility for exams

The student attends at least 75% of the attendance in the theoretical-practical classes and with a grade of 9.5 values, considering the weighted evaluation of the theoretical component, the practical component and the attendance participation.

Calculation formula of final grade

It is a prerequisite of the course attendance of at least 75% of attendance at practical classes. Assessment is continuous and integrates the theoretical component with two testes and the practical component with a group work. The final score is the mean of the marks obtained between the theoretical component (40%) and practical component (50% group work +10% quality of individual participation. The negative rating in the practical component implies reprobation.

 The July resource consists of a test on the whole matter and is provided for students who obtain an average negative tests, provided they have obtained positive in the practical component of the course.