Option PDA 6

Code:

OPT6-PDA2020

Acronym:

OPT6-PDA2020

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Architecture

Instance: 2020/2021 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Arquitectura (A)
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Program in Architecture

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDA	10	PDA 2020 Official	1	-	3	12	81

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: O trabalho individual poderá ser entregue em Português, Italiano, Espanhol, Francês ou Inglês.

Objectives

Reflection on the methodological and instrumental affinities between architectural design and research, with a special focus on ‘representation’ as:
* matter - potential object of study - of both actions,
* process - method of work and development - common and analogous,
* communication - privileged instrument and means of transmission,

considering that representation is a differentiating tool, in architectural research methodologies, relatively to other areas of knowledge, and its exercise can be seen as an element of school identity.

Learning outcomes and competences

Identification and experimentation of representation as a privileged means of recognition, description, interpretation, enunciation, proposition, confirmation, definition and communication of actions in research and architectural design.

Critically assess the relationship between the forms of architecture and the underlying values and premises. Develop the ability to, through representation, enunciate and characterize the timeless, current and emerging problems to which the project must answer and, in reverse order, depart from representations (in a broad sense, which integrates from the drawing, the model or even the building) to decipher the themes and intent that they tried to express in their time and circumstances.

Working method

B-learning

Program

Affinities between Research and Project
Representation as matter, process and communication

Representation as Matter
— Document. knowledge
— Historiography
— Categorization [Cartography. Infographics. Illustration. Drawing . Model . Building …]

Representation as Process

— Identification. description
— Interpretation. conceptualization
— Enunciation. formalization
— Confirmation. verification
— Communication . transmission

Representation as Communication
— Expression
— Synthesis
— Disclosure

Mandatory literature

Alberto Carneiro; Desenho projecto de desenho. ISBN: 972-8560-249
Álvaro Siza Vieira; 01 textos. ISBN: 978-972-26-2923-2
André Corboz; Le territoire comme palimpseste et autre essais. ISBN: 2-910735-36-2
Helen Thomas; Drawing architecture. ISBN: 978-0-7148-7715-0
Paola Viganò; I territori dell.urbanistica. ISBN: 978-886-0490-773
Paulo Mendes da Rocha; Maquetes de papel, Cosac & Naify, 2007. ISBN: 9788575036259

Complementary Bibliography

André Tavares; Uma^anatomia do livro de arquitectura. ISBN: 978-989-8217-35-6
Anthony Grafton, Daniel Rosenberg; Cartographies of Time, Princeton Architectural Press, 2012. ISBN: 9781616890582
Desley Luscombe, Helen Thomas, Niall Hobhouse; Architecture through Drawing, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2019. ISBN: 9781848223776
James S. Ackerman; Architettura e disegno. ISBN: 88-370-2058-9
John Brian Harley; The New Nature of Maps. Essays in the History of Cartography, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780801870903
Sandra Rendgen; History of Information Graphics, Taschen, 2019. ISBN: 9783836567671

Comments from the literature

Archive

drawingmatter.org
cca.qc.ca
atlasofplaces.com
fondationlecorbusier.fr
arquivos.serralves.pt
gulbenkian.pt

www.visualcomplexity.com

Teaching methods and learning activities

Program´s exposure, contents and concepts, by the teacher, with support references, examples and commented bibliography.
Presentation and debate, with guests, on experiences of using representation as a central instrument of research in architecture.
Development of individual work*, throughout the semester, which will be presented, debated and reviewed.
* One of 3 hypotheses

1 — representation of the circumstance, problem, premises and / or principle of the project
2 — use representation in an action of systematization and / or interpretation of information and / or enunciation of the thesis under investigation
3 — essay on the values, themes and arguments expressed in one or at the intersection of several architectural representations of another author (s).

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	30,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	2,00
Elaboração de projeto	38,00
Estudo autónomo	30,00
Frequência das aulas	11,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

To obtain frequency, students must attend / participate at least 2/3 of the hours of classes provided, being the last class mandatory.

Calculation formula of final grade

Participation 20%
Presentation and discussion of the practical work 20%
Practical work 60%