Code: | 30319B3 | Acronym: | 30319B3 |
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Classification | Keyword |
CNAEF | Architecture and Urbanism |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Arquitectura (A) |
Course/CS Responsible: | Integrated Master Degree in Architecture |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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MIARQ | 64 | MIARQ | 3 | - | 3 | - | 81 |
We witness nowadays an overt difficulty among students in identifying, observing, recording, and retaining, with both celerity and effectiveness, many of the structural facts and forms of composing an architectural work. The haste promoted by the diffusion methods of architectural images present throughout the internet, potentiate the loss not only of the slow process of assimilation but also of the habit of “project studying”. As a means of complementing such fleeting perceptions, and furthermore as a pedagogical objective, it is important to advance the ability of focusing the attention, with acuity and efficiency, on the relevant facts of an image, a drawing, or a comment. Therefore, the purpose of this CU is to help propel and develop the ability to observe, identify, and understand (and depict by means of a quick drawing) the architectural signifiers essential to the project analysis.
The Course Unit will allow not only to profoundly know a set of fundamental architectural works but also, and especially, to refine the ability to analyse, with both quickness and accuracy, as well as register through drawing, what otherwise is nothing more than a succession of images more or less impressive. The aim lies in questioning the ways of looking and, moreover, in deepening the observation and analysis acuity, fundamental for the comprehension and memorization of an architecture work.
From a set of singular cases of multifamily housing buildings, the Course Unit explores the varied meanings drawing acquires in the context of projecting: drawing as a means of creation and communication but, mainly, as a way of thinking, perceiving, and doing architecture; and drawing further regarded as a preferential tool for the attentive study of the project – its options/conceptual models and respective themes/composition principals.
A case study will be presented per session, thematically specified and framed within the theory and history of architecture. Each session will be given by a guest professor.
The Course Unit is programmed to comprise 12 sessions presenting works and projects, each lasting 2 hours. In these classes, as the presentation takes place the students will be executing the schemas, drawings, or representations appropriate to a predominantly graphic translation of the matter under consideration, experimenting personal systems of interpretation and expression. The used medium must necessarily be paper, in the format A4. The work done by each student will be handed at the end of every class. Periodically, comments about samples and paradigmatic examples of the works already submitted by students will be provided.
designation | Weight (%) |
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Participação presencial | 40,00 |
Trabalho laboratorial | 60,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
designation | Time (hours) |
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Frequência das aulas | 0,00 |
Trabalho escrito | 0,00 |
Total: | 0,00 |
Participation in at least 75% of the classes and submitting the respective works.