History of Modern Architecture
| Code: | 300302 | Acronym: | 300302 |
| Keywords | |
|---|---|
| Classification | Keyword |
| CNAEF | Architecture and Urbanism |
Instance: 2021/2022 - 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 | 171 | MIARQ | 2 | - | 9 | - | 243 |
Teaching language
PortugueseObjectives
History of architecture has to be understood as an art that is attaining step by step a scientific goal and not, in any case, like a evocative summing up of buildings, cities, and interventions on natural landscape in order to achieve the basic means of life in an artificial HABITAT.
The history of modern architecture aims the acquaintance of the generally so called classical architecture. The chronological scope of this discipline mediates from the end of Middle Ages until the beginning of neo-classical period.
The history of modern architecture archives that are dealt with in this discipline are mostly the deeds of “stone and plaster”. The student is invited to understand how the architect/builder of those times could deal with the architectural concepts for the coeval time being, giving them form and substance, i.e., turning the architectural concept into the architectonic matter.
The knowledge of architecture could not survive without the written documents as well as drawings that, sometimes are due to arise some unexpected hypothesis to understand unconventional matters.
Learning outcomes and competences
To be able to “read” architecture for someone that wishes to become an architect is one end to accomplish. The reading of a same matter can be not the same for different persons with the same instruction. So it is important to be able to establish ways of interpretation and understanding upon which one can exercise a credible basis of evaluation.
Although History is in the very name of the discipline, however it is in the sense of comprehending the world of shapes and forms in order to turn architecture in a more appealing approach. The systematization of knowledge is based upon memory and intellect is founded in common items or disparate ones of the way of thinking architecture. All these items are basis of departure and return for the exercise of conceiving, “collective memories” of a common history without which the creative intelligence could not aspire to evolve. Intelligence can not be without memory. And for us, architects, emotional Intelligence is not the less important.
The main fundamentals of the study are mainly those laid by historians whose knowledge and scientific methods go on being imprescindable. Nevertheless, through History, in the most restricted sense, we architects must identify architectonic signals, the drawing signs left by men throughout his existence. Sketches that made possible the materialising of architecture, of the architecture that wanted to be but could not reach the point and was relegated only to the two dimensions of the sketch and the unbuildable architecture that could not attain its purpose because of the lack of sufficient know how. So, design as an exact, unique and autonomous discipline is also the privileged tool to evaluate the contents and the container of the architectonics.
The principal purpose and aim of this discipline can be resumed like this: stimulate the desire and accomplishment of the future architect to study architecture.
Working method
PresencialProgram
1. Medieval and Renaissance building tradition. Modern Gothic and Old vs. vs. "At Romano". Renaissance and "old" - Filaret. Renaissance and "modernity" - Palladio
2. Filippo Brunelleschi (1337-1446). Proto-Renaissance: from the medieval tradition and the revival of antiquity.
3. Alberti (1404-1472) and Roman architecture (I)
4. Tratadística: Theory of Architecture in the Treaties (I)
5. Tratadística: Theory of Architecture in the Treaties (II)
6. Classical tradition [Greek and Roman temples, classical orders]
7. Bramante (1444-1514), architect ruinante
8. St. Peter's Basilica (Basilica Constantian up from Michelangelo) I
9. Michelangelo (1475-1564) and his contemporaries (the Basilica of St. Peter)
10. Michelangelo (1475-1564): theory and practice of architecture in the sixteenth century
11. Baldassare Peruzzi (1481-1537)
12. Giulio Romano (1499-1546)
13. Serliana and Serlio (1475-1554)
14. I Palladio (1508-1580)
15. Palladio II (1508-1580)
16. St. Peter's Basilica (Michelangelo to Carlo Maderno) II: Council of Trent and split in the church.
17. Inigo Jones and the Palladian (1573-1652)
18. Juan de Herrera (1530-1593)
19. The idea of Mannerism
20. The idea of Baroque (Classicism in France, the Baroque in Italy)
21. Bernini (1598-1680) and I Borromini (1599-1667)
22. Bernini (1598-1680) II and Borromini (1599-1667)
23. St. Peter's Basilica (Basilica Constantian up from Bernini) III
24. Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723)
25. Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766-1826) and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806)
26. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841)
Mandatory literature
Alberti Leon Battista; Da arte edificatória. ISBN: 978-972-31-1374-7Arnau Joaquin; La teoria de la arquitectura en los tratados. ISBN: 84-7360-084-3
Bacon Edmund N.; Design of cities. ISBN: 0-500-27133-X
benevolo Leonardo; História de la arquitectura del Renacimiento. ISBN: 84-306-9759-4
Fletcher Banister; A History of architecture. ISBN: 0-408-01587-X
Kostof Spiro; História de la arquitectura. ISBN: 84-206-7996-8
Kostof Spiro; A history of architecture. ISBN: 0-19-508378-4
Pevsner Nikolaus; An outline of European architecture. ISBN: 0-14-020109-2
Summerson John; The classical language of architecture
Summerson John; El lenguaje clásico de la arquitectura. ISBN: 84-252-0806-8
Palladio Andrea; The four books of architecture
Palladio Andrea; Libros I y III. ISBN: 84-600-4629-X
Polião Marco Vitrúvio; Da arquitectura. ISBN: 85-271-0506-3
Forssman Erik; Dórico, Jónico e Coríntio na arquitectura dos séculos XVI-XVIII. ISBN: 972-23-1276-6
Giedion Siegfried; Espacio, tiempo y arquitectura. ISBN: 84-237-0375-4
Le Corbusier; Vers une architecture. ISBN: 2-7003-0188-9
Silva Manuel Montenegro de Figueiredo Moreira da; Nicolau Nasoni e a arquitectura civil
Quintão José César Vasconcelos; Fachadas de igrejas portuguesas de referente clássico. ISBN: 972-9483-67-1
Rodrigues José Miguel Neto Viana Brás; O mundo ordenado e acessível das formas da arquitectura
Rogers Ernesto Nathan; Esperienza dell.architettura. ISBN: 88-8118-147-9
Summerson John; The classical language of architecture
Tavares Domingos; Miguel Ângelo. ISBN: 972-9483-60-4
Távora Fernando; Teoria geral da organização do espaço
Bacon Edmund N.; Design of cities. ISBN: 0-500-27133-X
Benevolo Leonardo; Historia de la arquitectura del renacimiento
Benevolo Leonardo; Storia della cittá
Fletcher Banister; A History of architecture. ISBN: 0-408-01587-X
Kostof Spiro; The city shaped. ISBN: 0-500-34118-4
Kostof Spiro; The city assembled. ISBN: 0-500-34124-9
Kostof Spiro; A history of architecture. ISBN: 0-19-508378-4
Patetta Luciano; História de la arquitectura
Pevsner Nikolaus; An outline of european architecture. ISBN: 978-0-500-34241-1
Tavares Domingos; Filippo Brunelleschi, o arquitecto. ISBN: 972-99019-0-2
Tavares Domingos; Donato Bramante. ISBN: 978-989-95159-2-5
Tavares Domingos; Inigo Jones. ISBN: 972-99019-6-1
Tavares Domingos; Leon Baptista Alberti. ISBN: 972-99019-3-7
Burckhardt Jacob; The architecture of the italian renaissance
Focillon Henri; A vida das formas
Teaching methods and learning activities
Theoretical: the exposition of the matter contained in the program is done through a weekly theoretical class, with the systematic help of the image. Students are offered a reading of architectural phenomenology, respecting the chronological sequence. It is also proposed that students carry out study visits, according to the possibilities and personal tastes, with the aim of taking direct contact with some of the moments in the history of architecture, interpreting and registering them through the drawing used as an analytical process.
Practice: in the theoretical-practical part of the discipline, students carry out individual work for the duration of the academic year. Each work presupposes an in-depth study of a specific theme related to the program's subject, implying diversified research. Students are offered a reflective and thorough reading of the various aspects of classical architecture, trying to complement, even partially, the generalist view of theoretical matter.
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final examAssessment Components
| designation | Weight (%) |
|---|---|
| Participação presencial | 20,00 |
| Prova oral | 20,00 |
| Teste | 30,00 |
| Trabalho de campo | 15,00 |
| Trabalho escrito | 15,00 |
| Total: | 100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
| designation | Time (hours) |
|---|---|
| Estudo autónomo | 68,50 |
| Frequência das aulas | 74,50 |
| Trabalho de campo | 50,00 |
| Trabalho de investigação | 50,00 |
| Total: | 243,00 |
Eligibility for exams
It is assumed that a student must be present at least to 75% of the number of classes due according to timetable.
The classification of T part can be improved through a test comprehending the whole programmed matters of the discipline. The obtained classification of this test replaces the other marks of previous tests.
Calculation formula of final grade
The positive classification in T and P translates into a final score resulting from the arithmetic average of the obtained classifications, provided that the difference between them is equal to or less than 4 values.
If the difference between the positive rating in T and P is greater than 4, the lowest rating will contribute 70% and the highest rating 30% in the calculation of the final average.
The negative rating in T and positive in P allows for an appeal exam in July and, in the case of an evaluation between 7.5 and 9.5, the performance of an oral test, with the P note being reserved for final weighting.
The oral test is intended exclusively to verify the minimum knowledge in the theoretical part of the u.c. In case of approval in the oral test, component T will be classified with 9.5 points.
The negative rating in P, although positive in T, leads to failure without any recourse.
Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)
In accordance with the applicable legislation.
Classification improvement
The improvement of the practical part of the discipline can be improved through the delivery of revised work within the deadline to be established in the u.c. calendar.The classification of the theoretical part can be improved through a test covering the entire program of the course. The positive classification replaces the average of the marks obtained in the tests performed.
Observations
According to the devellopment of COVID-19 pandemy, and depending on the dispostions that may be demanded by the Portuguese Health Authorities, changes may occur in face-to-face classes regime.Page created on: 2025-06-23 at 21:54:08 | Acceptable Use Policy | Data Protection Policy | Complaint Portal