Architectural Theory 3

Code:

400403

Acronym:

400403

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	226	MIARQ	4	-	6	-	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

1. Concepts acquired in precedent units of architectural theory will be enlarged and methods oriented towards autonomous thinking required for nestling personal research fields.
2. Information and critical analysis of cases will be inscribed in the pursuit of a definition of Public Space as a space category, architectonic, morphologically related to Forms of Residence and Forms of Institutions.
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 and iconographic research and new findings in archives, eventually by interview (architects, urban designers and planners).
5. To build state of the art knowledge about the physical organization of Public Space, embraced under the unitary concept of Forms of the Institutions, by means of systematic study of existing cases, in Portuguese soil or abroad. Observation, register and comprehension must be undertaken as an exercise of methodical search both for architectonic universals and circumstantial factors that individuate Form.
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.

Learning outcomes and competences

1) Sintetic literature review and self argument elaboration and structured reasoning.
2) Personal comprehension of existing and visited public spaces and public buildings by the disciplinary architectonic means that document them (drawings, projects and texts).
3) Objective and Ecomical communication of personal and team research results on case studies (Image/Text).

Working method

Presencial

Program

THE PROJECT OF PUBLIC SPACES AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS
1. Urban analysis: architectonic elements that constitute the urban form. Public Space and forms of buildings. The principle of continuity. The human body, a powerful tool for comprehensive reading of space. (Fonseca, 2008)
2. Domestic and institutional space – towards the identifying of social and urbanistic phenomena that underlie the forms of dwelling, of working and public facilities. Hierarchy of architectonic forms. Existency, Values and Forms. The social issue in Architecture.
3. From urban history to urban design. Regeneration, refurbishing and expansion as technical and political concepts.
4. An initiation into research methodology on urban and architectural facts. Practical and theoretical instruments for architectural criticism. Critical objectivity in architecture. Theory, strategy and project. Review and concept innovation. New thinking and identity – the author and his case.
5. Evolution and upgrade of the expression “principles” in Architecture. (C. PERRAULT, J. RUSKN, Le CORBUSIER, ZUMTHOR)
6. The relevance of writing in architectural knowledge. Writings and interviews of masters. Writings by architects – objectivity, simplicity and economy of their words. Their mates, the poets.
7. Contemporary urban projects for urban space transformation. Public Space as a category.   
8. Consistency of urban design – imagery, tectonics and maintenance - and its material architectonic expression. Ethics, Aesthetics and Technique. (FONSECA, 1996)
9. Architectural form as Sign. Integrity, uniqueness and historicity of the architectonic fact. Proportion and Beauty today.
10. Principle, rule and measure, norm and form. Planning, program and design for institutional spaces.
11. The client – identifying the architect’s interlocutor. Effects of inter-action in public promotion of architecture.
12. Functional brief as progressive argument in the realm of architectural design. Architectural expression of function - the narrative and abstraction debate.
13. Scale and layout, for the aliance of building and public space. Figure and background theory in urbanism and public buildings.
14. Dependence between the development of a public building and its surrounding space.
15. Form consistency. Economy of expression in Construction aproaching the idea of “resilience”.
16. The state of the art for “monument”.

Mandatory literature

Alberti Leon Battista; On the art of building in ten books
Le Corbusier 1887-1965; Cuando las catedrales eran blancas. ISBN: 84-445-0208-5
Koolhaas Rem 1944-; Delirious New York. ISBN: 88-435-6230-4
Latour Alessandra 560; Louis I. Kahn. ISBN: 0-8478-1331-2
Siza Viera Álvaro; 01 textos. ISBN: 978-972-26-2923-2
Schildt Goran 340; Alvar Aalto in his own words. ISBN: 0-8478-2080-7

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching methods serve the theoretical nature of the curricular unit. Seminar form in auditorium lectures offer content information, methodological approach to literature and case study exercise, motivation and coaching for team work and debate of on-going studies.
On the bases of written and graphic materials referred to literature and case studies, students are expected to exercise, clarify and structure architectural discourse about public spaces and public facilities freely chosen and visited, using multimedia resourses.

Software

Photoshop
Power Point
CAD

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Teste	40,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	40,00
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho de investigação	20,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Register of attendance in class is recquired.
Evaluation will be composed by the results of the two tests and a minimum of one paper of lierature review and the study case chosen by the student. Papers must be submited by e-mail. Study cases must be submitted by e-mail for individual or team work. In case of group work, submission must be made in one unique file containing each of the individual case and the entire team work. A separate submission by individual members of a team work will exclude the value of team work for that member.

Case Study - Individual case study classification in scale 0 to 16, plus 0 to 4 values whenever work is produced by a team whose data, arguments or results overpass those who respect to individual case.

Calculation formula of final grade

Attendance  (20%) + (Tests 50%) + (Papers 15%) + (Case study 15%)

Evaluation criteria
• Program: Comprehension of Public space as an architectonic fact, that expresses the collective values of society.
• Method: Pertinence of choice and delimitation of case, diversity and accuracy of data and its analysis, objectivity of interpretation, originality of critical arguments, quality of results, economy of media.
• Frequency and active participation: Presence in class, apprehension and development of lectures issues, prosecution of examples given by the professor, iniciative and capability in team work.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Literature review paper must include at least two of the bibliographic references of this program.

Classification improvement

Improvement of distributed classification may be required by students with minimum results of 8 in the average of frequency, tests , papers and case study exhibited before the 30th of June. A new and reviewed submission of the case study may be demanded to the professor to be presented no further than three working days previous of the publication of final results regulated by school agenda.

Observations

English, French, Italian and Spanish languages will be accepted in tests, written papers and case study but final case study must have an abstract in portuguese.