Architectural Theory 2

Code:

300303

Acronym:

300303

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	191	MIARQ	3	-	9	-	243

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

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?

 

Learning outcomes and competences

Remarked the process of architecture as expression and synthesis of history and culture, technique and art, knowledge and material, it is aimed: i) to make the student sensible towards thought and representation, experiencing and investigation in architecture – actions that promote, release, educate distance that is project; ii) to cause/collect resources and to build up topics that inform and validate, argue and make autonomous the disciplinary knowledge of architecture – nature, function, space, town. Therefore, by the observation of the structures in the world of forms, the objective is to wake up the theoretical instruction and the critical conjecture in the debate of the critical discourse of composition: evolution of architecture as controversy meeting between disciplinary practice and artistic experience – creation, thought, knowledge.

 Along the academic year, in the intersection of the several coordinates and themes of the program, theory and practice take representation, text, building and image as objects of thinking, (rein)forcing to the formation of “theoretical project awakeners” – expression of knowledge assimilated / know-how elaborated by the student in his/her apprenticeship and experiment of architecture study.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Na longa duração que se (contra)diz-(des)faz na/pela circunstância, entre o excesso de liberdade e o excesso de vigilância, a arquitetura inscreve nesse duplo risco o que a sua teoria identificou como argumentação problemática de autonomia e heteronomia, natural e artificial, arte e utilidade, abstrato e material, local e global, atual e virtual, processo e reparação.

 Presente que o problema da arquitetura parece ser menos o de tratá-la como uma poética do espaço ou poética do tectónico, talvez mais uma “arquitectónica do relacional” (R. Mathu), o programa divide-se em sete módulos:

 > esteio
Architettura misura dell uomo, Rogers, 1951 . Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi, Brown, Izenour, 1972
“escola do Porto” – atmosfera de identidade não linear . cidade escola arquitetos

( casa,  movimento,  estações )
( projeto | investigação | escrita | obra )

> objeto 1
Casa sobre as Dunas, Fernando Távora, Ofir,1956 . Boîte à Miracles, Le Corbusier, 1948 . Casa para el Poema del Ángulo Recto, S. Radic, Vilches, 2010-12

( “La clé, c’est regarder … / regarder / observer / voir / imaginer / inventer / crer”, LC,15.8.63 )

> objeto 2
Il padiglione, Lina Bo Bardi, 1942 . Pavilhão de Escultura, Exposição Sonseek, A. van Eyck, Arnhem, 1965-66 . Escola em Niger, fotografia de Jean Philippe Vassal, 1984

( “a casa move-se” – sobre arquitetura )

 
> objeto 3
Casas Schindler e Chace, Rudolph Schindler, 1921-22 . Casa no Gerês, E. Souto de Moura, 1980 . Escola em Rudrapur, 2006

( “intersecções” – manifesto | circunstância | acontecimento )

 
> objeto 4
Upper Lawn, 1959-82 | Yellow house, 1976 | Hexenhaus, 1990-96, Alison & Peter Smithson

( “construir a distância” | projeto, expectativa de uma reunião )


> objeto 5
A House which Grows, J. Stirling/J. Gowan, 1957 . House of cards, C & R Eames, 1952 . Garden & House, R. Nishizawa, Tokio, 2006-11

( processo  jogo . desenho e intervenção . continente e dissolução da estância )

 

> móbil
Fernando Távora, desenho de Álvaro Siza, s/d. Il Rischio della Rilevanza, Alejandro Aravena, 2007

"Uma escola do Porto por conhecer"

( Coup de dés, Stéphane Mallarmé )
( “o que é a arquitetura?”. “A infinita repetição da pergunta” )
( Casa, identidade em fuga, metamorfose )

Mandatory literature

(ed.: Carlos Morais); Álvaro Siza, 01 textos , Porto: Civilização editora, 2009
(ed.: Carlos Morais); Álvaro Siza, 02 textos , Porto: Parceria A. M. Pereira, 2018
BALLESTEROS, José; Ser Artificial. Glosario prático para verlo todo de otra manera, Madrid: Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, 2008
BENJAMIN, Walter; Imagens de Pensamento, (trad.: J. Barrento)., Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2004
COLQUHOUN, Alan; Modernity and Classical Tradition. Architectural Essays 1980-1987, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1989
DE MOLINA, Santiago; Hambre de Arquitectura. Necessidad y práctica de lo Cotidiano, Madrid: Ediciones Asimétricas, 2016
DELEUZE, Gilles; GUATTARI, Félix; O que é a filosofia?, Lisboa: Presença editora, 1992
ELIOT, Thomas Stearns; “La Tradition et le Talent Individuel”, in Essais Choisis, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1950
FORTY, Adrian ; Words and Buildings. A vocabulary of modern architecture, London: Thames &Hudson, 2000
ESPUELAS, Fernando; Madre Matéria. Escritos de arquitectura, Madrid: Ed. Lampreave, 2009
HERZOG, Jacques; de MEURON, Pierre; Engañosas Transparencias, Chicago/Barcelona: IITAC Press/Editorial G. Gili, 2016
KOOLHAAS, R.; PETERMANN, S.; TRUBY, S.; Elements, Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 2014
(ed.: Andreas Ruby); Lacaton & Vassal, Orléans: Hyx, 2009
LEFEBVRE, Henri; La Production de l’Espace, Paris: Anthropos, 2000
LERUP, Lars; Building Unfinished. Architecture and human action, London: Sage Publications, 1977
(coord. Marcelo Ferraz); Lina Bo Bardi , São Paulo: Instituto Lina Bo e P. M. Bardi, 2008
LOPEZ de la Cruz, Juan José; LOPEZ-PELÁEZ; El Dibujo del Mundo, Madrid: editorial Lampreave, 2014
LUCAN, Jacques, ; Précisions sur un État Présent de l’Architecture, Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, , 2015
MARTI ARÍS, Carlos; La Cimbra y el Arco, Barcelona: Fundacón Caja de Arquitectos, 2005
MONEO, Rafael; “Sobre el Concepto de Arbitrariedad” in Escritos y Conversaciones en el Perú (coord.: F. Llosa; L. Rivero), Lima: Pontificia Universidad católica del Perú, 2009
PALLASMAA, Juhani, ; The Eyes of the Skin. Architecture and the Senses, London: Routledge, 2000
(ed.: Thomas Durisch); Peter Zumthor 1985-2013: Buildings and Projects , Zurich: Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess, 2014
PRIETO, Eduardo; La Vida de la Materia. Sobre el inconsciente del arte y la arquitectura, Madrid: Ediciones Asimétricas, 2018
SANTA-MARIA, Luís; El Árbol, el Camino, el Estanque, ante la Casa, Barcelona: FCA, 2004
ed.: Toru Kato; Smiljan Radic . Bestiary, Tokio: TOTO Publishing, 2016
SOLÀ-MORALES, Ignasi de; Los Artículos de Any, Barcelona: Fundación Caja Arquitectos, 2009
(ed.: Kate Nesbit); Theorizing Architecture Theory. An anthology of architectural theory (1965-1995), New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996
TRILLO de LEYVA, Juan Luís; Argumentos sobre la Contiguidade en la Arquitectura, Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla/Secretariado de Publicaciones, 2001
VALDERRAMA APARICIO, Luz; La Construcción de la Mirada: Trés Distancias, Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla/Secretariado de Publicaciones, 2004
van der LAAN, Hans; L'Espace Architectonique. Quinze leçons sur la disposition de la demeure humaine, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989
van EYCK, Aldo; Collected Articles and other Writings 1947-1998 (ed.: V. Ligtelijn, F. Strauven). , Amsterdam: Sun Publishers, 2008
VIDLER, Anthony; James Frazer Stirling. Notes from the archive , New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010
(ed.: J. Dehs, M Esbensen, C. Pedreden); When Architects and Designers Write Draw Build? Essays on Architecture and Design research, Aarhus: Arkitektskolens Forlag, 2015
TIRONI, Giordano; Paysage, le Lieu du Temps. Les forces à l’oeuvre dans le paysage et son architecture, Lausanne: PPUR, 2016

Teaching methods and learning activities

Two 1,5 hour sessions a week, theoretical e theoretical-and-practical, understood as seminary space: magisterial class to state subject/expose matters; statement and participative class; orientated study session problematizing coordinates, topics or themes of the program; session of tutorial orientation of theoretical-and-practical works; session for adjustment, development and evaluation of the work.

 For an elaborate process of knowledge under experience, we turn for aid to two theoretical-and-practical autonomous yet interacted actions:

I “Compendium/Text-book”. Building yard, registration, protocol and gathering of the evolutions of the group unit in the expression-instruction-arguing of materials – written, image and/or model, of individual production or collaboration among elements of the group – (in)formers of the structuring objects of the program, by the exploration and critical adjustment of the individual apprenticeship. Tutorial orientation.

II “Notebook”. Practicable from the individual apprenticeship, plan and detail (the prolonged, persistent and regular construction; the rigorous, organized and detailed communication) of the evolution of the program-process of study thought-outlined-experienced by each student in the programmatic-thematic framing open and started in the theoretical sessions. Participated/informed statement/arrangement by the continuous accompanying.

 Along the academic year, “compendium/text-book” and “notebook” open to architecture a space of education-investigation (and) hypothesis for work / for problems, starting from a list of proposals of architecture (author, work, generation, geo-cultural and/or disciplinary circle) characterized, thought, selected, priorized along the first semester.

 Reading, drawing, writing, image, model, bibliographical study, case research; course | staying in real space endeavour the (re)cognition of “materials” of personal project; (rein)force a synthesis of thought | observation | knowledge towards the creation of a hypothesis/station of problem concerning the program objects.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Prova oral	20,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Trabalho laboratorial	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	70,00
Frequência das aulas	68,50
Trabalho de campo	50,00
Trabalho de investigação	54,50
Total:	243,00

Eligibility for exams

It is a prerequisite for obtaining frequency of the curricular unit the presence in at least 75% of the theoretical-and-practical classes actually given, informed through the regular attendance in the theoretical classes.

 The evaluation of the matters taught in the curricular unit combines three components: component A, two proofs of individual evaluation of knowledge (written exercise during one lesson time, spread over the duration of each semester), aiming at checking the rigor/support of the study experience on the summarized subjects; components B (“compendium”) and C (“notebook”), theoretical-and-practical actions with two moments for mid-term evaluation (end of 1st and beginning of 3rd terms) before the final evaluation and classification, aiming the evolution, the argument and the autonomy of the apprenticeship in the effective thematisation of the objects of the program.

 The evaluation inferior to 9,0 points in A and C, even when positive in B, means failure without recourse. The evaluation superior to 8,0 points in A and B and positive in C allows a recourse proof in July, written and oral on the whole summarized subject, being the classifications in B and C reserved for the calculation of the final classification according to the ponderation indexes.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification is calculated by the sum of the partials obtained by the application of the ponderation factors given to the final classification in each one of the evaluation components: component A, individual, 30%; component B, group, 35%; component C, individual, 35%.

 The regularity, continuity, persistence in the determination, organization and conduct of study options, and/or the originality and consistency in the evaluation and autonomization of theoretical construction and operative development of situations of study as support for the investigation architecture, mean a factor for bonus of the final classification up to 1,0 points.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The students who are by law released of their attendance in classes must fulfill the evaluation component A, as well as the development of the work component C (“notebook”), checked and followed in at least five sessions by semester, and subject to presentation and defense at the end of each semester, being eventually allowed to dispense component B (“compendium”).

Classification improvement

The classification of component A may be object of improvement by a written and oral (not dispensable) proof, on the summarized subjects.