Architecture

Code:

EC0016

Acronym:

ARQU

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Building Construction

Instance: 2006/2007 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Building Division
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Civil Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LEC	0	Plano de estudos de transição para 2006/07	2	5,5	5,5	60	145
MIEC	217	Syllabus since 2006/2007	2	-	5,5	60	145
		Plano de estudos de transição para 2006/07	2	-	5,5	60	145

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The plurality of aims to reach in this disciplines is essentially divided in two great groups.

First Group Aims - "Technician-Formatives".

Considering that students of Civil Engineering will be able to to develop in its professional passage sveral projects of specialties, specially building construction, such practical it will imply the necessity to efficiently articulate its solution to that one praised by architects and/or specialists. In this way, it is intended to:
a)Developing in students the capacity to read and to interpret different projects of architecture, being made familiar itself, thus, with the specific language of the drawing technical representation (already introduced previously in he disciplines of Drawing of Construction), support essential in the communication of the act to create the built structures and the spaces, in general;
b)Giving students the procedures / principles that structuralize the architecture projects (its prescribed constitution and hierarchy, fases, implications, joint to the municipal politicies on construction, etc), as well as for the effectiveness of the joint of the professional of civil engineering with the architects.

Second Group Aims - "Critical-Formatives".

During the last years the studies on theory, critical and historiography of architecture have been object of increasing attention. In this scientific context where the inquiries gain great expression on concrete analyses of historical periods in accordance with determined metodologies or points of view on theory, history and morphology of architecture, it is intended, as specific aims, to develop the following analytical boardings:
a)Assimilation of the passage of the architecture, in the interpretative domain of the historical evolution of the articulated architectural space to the constructive and structural innovations; critical and monographic;
b)Assimilation of main movements and workmanships of architecture (until nowadays), for form to extend, in the students, its cultural and architectural learning, as well as the education of the taste.

Program

Chapter I
1 - INTRODUCTION. Slight knowledge of SPACE, ARCHITECTURE, STRUCTURE and COMPOSITION. The Space and the Architecture. The elements of the space. Elementary spaces and generating spaces. The entity "vazio". The space protagonist of the architecture. Estimated dimensions and of the architecture. Some architectural terms.
2 - Reading and interpretation of drawings technician (ortogonais projecções), in different scales, for assimilating the representation codes of some architectural components: a)Elements that structuralize the technical representation (the line, the shade, the spot or mark);
b)The importance of the hierarchy of drawing lines and its meaning.
3 - Analytical method. The Architectural Project (hierarchy and fases). Legislation/rules.
Chapter II
1 - Architectural space through History. The Greek human scale. The static space of old Rome. The Christian space and the new human dimension. The directional acceleration of bizantine style. The Christianity. The gotic. Renaissance, baroque and mannerism. The architecture (and urbanism) from 1700. The main pombalinas and almadinas reforms, the architectural thought - the iluminism. The return to classicism. The XIXCentury: analysis of French, English and American case studies. Slight knowledge of "pitoresque" and "ecletism". The gotic revival, the medievalism, the romantism. The monuments as historical certifications and its paper inside the city. Modernity and vanguard; new proposals. The modern movement: genesis, rationalism, bureaucracy and utopias of "modernity". The Bauhaus and the Esprit Nouveau; the CIAM and the Letter of Athens. The post-modern architecture: the post-modern period - representation, symbolism and quality in architecture and urban public space.
2 - Brief references to Building Tipology : organizational concepts and nomenclature, projects.

Complementary Bibliography

Francis D. K. Ching; Forma, Espacio y orden, Ediciones Gustavo Gili/México, 1998. ISBN: 968-887-340-3

Teaching methods and learning activities

Due to the nature of the issues and due to its theoretical texts, the lessons always will be supported, as much as possible, by technologies, like the projection of films from different authors or periods of architecture, contemplated in the program, as well as the projection of series of transparencies and other particular sources especially oriented for some of the issues (Analysis of the Arquitectonica Form, Typologies and Space Organization , Legislation, among others). Complementarily, students will be stimulated on the discussion of different questions according the thematics and issues of the program, promoting the debate inside lessons; however, in what concerns to the direct analysis of sites and constructions, some study visits will occur.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	56,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

1 - Development of two phases of the practical exercise (Exercise EP1), folloied and initialed gradually for the professor, in the practical lessons, as well as its delivery in normalized dossier .
2 - Development of an exercise on communication supports - struture of designed messages as a work tool for engineers (Exercise EP2), folloied and initialed gradually for the professor, in the practical lessons, as well as its delivery in dossier normalized, the definitive date (component obligator).
2 - Developing a panel synthesis, illustrative of one of the study visits (Exercise EP3).
3 - Resolution of a mini-test (MT), in the last theoretical lesson of the semester (obligatory).

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation through the resolution of a theoretical and practical examination, covering the theoretical substance and the thematics of the practical exercises.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Evaluation through the resolution of a theoretical and practical examination, covering the theoretical substance of the practical exercises.
Time of examination = 7 h [ (Part I = 3h) + (Part II = 4h) ], in the same day.

Classification improvement

Evaluation through the resolution of a theoretical and practical examination, covering the theoretical substance of the practical exercises.

Observations

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Working time estimated out of classes: 7 hours