History of the City of Oporto

Code:

50131C5

Acronym:

50131C5

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Architecture and Urbanism

Instance: 2019/2020 - 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	5	MIARQ	4	-	3	-	81
			5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

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).

Learning outcomes and competences

Draw a comprehensive and methodical approach to recognize the historical time of formation of the city, which will uncover the materialization of urban designs and capabilities of design and construction of the city.

Develop a procedure for balancing design and urban form for the recognition the historical times between city of Porto and other cities in europe.

Working method

Presencial

Program

I. Urban Portugal - territory and city: factors origin and development factors; phases and types of urban settlement.

II. The Port - origin and urban development:

- Territory and city: the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.

- City and architecture: structural interventions and continuities between the sixteenth and nineteenth century.

- Structure and urban image: the Baroque profile and illustrated traced.

- Urban renewal and extension of the city: the initiatives of the liberal bourgeoisie and the new infrastructure.

- Memory and urban refoundation: industry and economic housing versus monumentalization and renovation of the center.

- Memory and urban development: urban planning and urban regeneration to the present day.

Mandatory literature

Barros José Augusto Correia de; Plano de melhoramentos da cidade do Porto apresentado à Câmara Municipal em sessão extraordinári
Fernandes José A. Rio; Avenida dos aliados e baixa do Porto. ISBN: 978-989-98335-4-8
Figueiredo Ricardo; Avenida dos aliados e baixa do Porto. ISBN: 978-989-98335-3-1
Gabinete de História da Cidade 050; Exposição de Plantas da Cidade do Porto dos séculos XVIII e XIX
Guardiá Manuel 300; Atlas histórico da ciudades europeas. ISBN: 84-3455681-2
Henriques-Mateus 205; O Porto visto do céu
Loza Rui Ramos 340; Porto a património mundial. ISBN: 972-9147-08-6
Oliveira Vítor Manuel Araújo de; A^evolução das formas urbanas de Lisboa e do Porto nos séculos XIX e XX. ISBN: 978-989-746-007-4
Real Manuel Luis 340; A alfândega do Porto e o despacho aduaneiro
Tavares Rui 080; Carta topographica da cidade do Porto que foi mandada levantar na escala de 1=500 por ordem da...
Tavares Rui; Da avenida da cidade ao plano para a zona central

Teaching methods and learning activities

Courses articulated with visits exposure to urban and architectural units city of contents of the program sessions. A string of hits that corresponds to each line of the program is planned. During these visits it explores the method to identify, understand, explain and compare this with other urban units that are familiar to students, thus providing the basis for an individual written report which will be evaluated and ranked element. This report will be explained in class, discussed, and their classification, in the time of writing and exhibition, will be counted at 100% scale of 0 to 20.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	10,00
Frequência das aulas	36,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho escrito	15,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

The student attends with attendance of 75% of theorectical-pratical classes and with the classification of 9,5 values in the invidual final evaluation exercise.

Calculation formula of final grade

It is prerequisite Course attendance of at least 75% attendance of practical classes.

The final score of the classification results of individual written report, presented and discussed, in the range 0-20.