Free Hand

Code:

AP1001

Acronym:

AP1001

Level:

100

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Landscape Architecture

Instance: 2023/2024 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Plannings
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Landscape Architecture

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
L:AP	51	Official Study Plan	1	-	12	272	324

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The discipline of Drawing aims to promote the representation and knowledge of the visible world and the mental images through manual graphic skills, in accordance with the following objectives:
- To develop the student's the ability to observe;
- To develop the ability and knowledge about the act of drawing and the sensitivity to plastic and aesthetic values;
- To create conditions for the student to face the act of projecting with spontaneity, agility and awareness;
- To stimulate the presence in the act of project of non systematic, symbolic and poetic components.
- To promote the appreciation and understanding of the need and pleasure of representation;
- To recognize drawing as a graphic expression of an intention;
- To understand that you can learn how to draw through the practice of drawing.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the academic year the student, through drawing, must have acquired skills and abilities of observation, representation, memory, speech, organization and project development.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The program is developed and sudivided into 3 Stages according to 4 General Issues: The Human Figure, The Object, The Internal Space and The Landscape, dealt with a progressive treatment of conceptual and methodological problems and technical aspects,.

Stage 1 - Perception and Recognition
The Human Figure, The Object, The Internal Space and The Landscape.
Progressive contact with the world of drawing, methods and procedures.
- Introduction to perception, observation practises and its awareness;
- Characteristics of vision and representation techniques;
- Structure, measurement and proportion of forms;
- Space - the systems of representation and empirical methods;
- Morphological characteristics, interactions and the features of space.

Theoretical sessions
- Discipline programme and regulations
- Drawing instruments
- Visual perception - awareness of neuro-visual processes
- Representation of perspective - empirical method
- Axonometric representation - empirical approach
- Representation of space - historical and conceptual overview


Stage 2 - Recognition and Expression
The Human Figure, The Human Body, The Object, The Internal Space and The Landscape.
Systematization of experiences, knowledge and work processes
- Images of reality and the realities of the image
- Supporters of drawing tools, methods and processes
- Modes and attitudes in graphic expression
- The perception and observation - terms of recognition and culture - "culture of reality"
- Drawing concepts and methods of work

Theoretical sessions
- Modes of drawing - sketch and contour
- Modes of drawing - detail and draft
- Graphical elements
- Composition on drawing
- Color as a system
- Color as a material
- Human Figure - Proportion and Anatomy
- Human Figure - Nude and Natural Academy

Phase 3 - Expression and Consideration
The Landscape, the Urban Space, the Human Figure.
"Consideration" is understood as the enhancement of productive capacities and empower the student to face reality portrayal.
- Student conceptual intentionality, planning and poetic development
- Graphic identity and aesthetics
- Qualities and characteristics of the subject
- Ability to compose images

Theoretical Session
- The graphic expression.

 

Mandatory literature

Gómez Molina; Juan José ; Las lecciones del dibujo. ISBN: 84-376-1376-0
Vieira, Joaquim Pereira Pinto; Desenho eProjecto são o mesmo?. ISBN: 972-9483-13-2
Nicolaides, Kimon; The Natural way to Draw

Teaching methods and learning activities

The programme will be developed both under a theoretical and a practical class.
Theoretical sessions are intended to provide materials, topics, examples and the theoretical basis of practical exercises to develop in each phase of work and study.
Worksheets will be provided defining the theoretical and practical framework for each stage, as well as the regime of exercises and parameters of evaluation and critique.
Practical exercises represent the standard teaching par excellence from which promotes critical reflection on each other's work.
The focus is the teacher/student interaction. This interaction involves knowledge and expectations wiyh emphasis on questions and answers raised in class.
The evaluation sessions are key moments to the entire process.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	272,00
Total:	272,00

Eligibility for exams

Continuous assessment. Assessment it results from the correction of each work, constructive comments and comparative assessment of the situation. Evaluation factors expressed in the worksheets for each step will ailso be taken into consideration. At the end of each stage there is an individual assessment consisting on public exhibition of the student work followed up by technical discussion. Grading will range from 0-20. At the end of the year the student must deliver the work of the last phase and that of all previous phases.

Failure to present all the work implies the failing grades points. Attendance in evaluation sessions is mandatory and essential. There is no recourse. In order to be elegible to a assessment the student must ensure attendance of at least 75% of the classes provided.

Failed for committing a Fraud

Situations related to Fraud are briefly addressed in a single article, in the General Regulations for the Assessment of First Cycle Students, Integrated Master's and Second Cycle Study Cycles of the University of Porto, Order n. 1535/2018, of February 13th.

“Article 20

FRAUD

Fraud committed in carrying out a work, in any of its modalities, implies its annulment and communication to the statutorily competent body for possible initiation of disciplinary proceedings.”

According to the above-mentioned article, it will be understood as fraud, and will not be considered for evaluation, any and all work carried out by means or methods different from those provided for in the worksheets or carried out by means or methods different from those indicated by the Curricular Unit teachers.

Repeated action in carrying out work through fraudulent methods will imply the application of the Article with regard to “communication to the statutorily competent body for possible initiation of disciplinary proceedings.”

 

Calculation formula of final grade

At the end of each phase, the evaluation will be the result of the development of students' responses compared to the reference parameters outlined in worksheets.

There will be a single final classification, expressed between 0 and 20, which will consider attendance and all the work done by the student during the academic year.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students covered by the U.Portos Student-Worker Statute should contact the Curricular Unit Regent and the LAP coordinator to be clarified about the Assessment and Classification Process.

Observations

The UC evaluation jury is formed by José Maria Lopes, as UC Coordinator, and Filipe Matos and Sofia Barreira, as teachers of the practical component of the UC.