Architecture

Code:

EC0016

Acronym:

ARQU

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Building Construction

Instance: 2007/2008 - 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	220	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 of this Subject is essentially divided in two main groups.

Group I - "Technical - Formative Aims".

Considering that Civil Engineering students would be able to develop in their future professional carrear several projects for planning and bulding fields, specially the building construction, the classes practical training implies the necessity to articulate their solutions (as future Civil Engineers) to that one praised by architects and/or other specialists.
Further more, the Architecture Subject has to assure the following actions:
a) Developing in students the capacity to read and to interpret different projects of architecture, getting familiar with the specific language and tolls related to the technical drawing representation (which was previously introduced in the Technical Design subject - 1st year) - a fundamental communication support for the activity of creation and building structures and spaces, in general;
b) Giving students the procedures / principles that structuralize architecture projects (e.g., its constitution and hierarchy, methodologycal fases, law implications, strathegical contact joints with municipal construction policies, etc), as well as for the effectiveness of civil engineers and architects' partnership.

Group II - "Critical-Formative Aims".

From last years, studies on theory, critical and historiography of architecture have been a focus of an increasing attention. In this scientific context where researching on historical architecture periods' analysis are getting a higher expression, accordlling with particular theorical methodologies and architecture history and morphology (or points of view), specific aims need to be reached throughout the following actions:

a) Analitycal assimilation of the "architecture itinerary", in the interpretative domain of the historical evolution of the architectural, regarding the buliding and structural innovations;
b) Critical and monographycal performance of main architectural movements and workmanships (until nowadays), in order to amplify students' cultural and architectural learning, as well as their criticism.

Program

Part I
1 - INTRODUCTION.
Slight knowledge of SPACE, ARCHITECTURE, STRUCTURE and COMPOSITION.
The Space and the Architecture. The elements of the space. Elementary and generating spaces. The entity "vazio" (e.g. "empty"). The architecture's space protagonist. Architectural dimensions and technical terms.
2 - Reading and interpretation of architectural technical drawings (ortogonal drwings), at different scales; assimilation of representation codes of some architectural components:
a) Technical representation of structural elements (the line, the shade, the spot or mark);
b)The importance of drawing lines hierarchy and its meaning.

3 - Drawings' analytical methodes. The Architectural Project and Process (hierarchy and develloping fases). Legislation/rules.

Part II
1 - The Architectural Space through History. The Greek human scale. The old roman static space. The new Christian's human space and dimension. The bizantine style's directional acceleration. The Christianity. The gothic spaces and technics. Renaissance, baroque and manneirism. The architecture (and urbanism) from 1700. The return to classicism. The 19th Century: slight analysies of "pitoresque" and "ecletism". The gotic revival, the medievalism, the romantism. 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 Athens' Letter. 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.
Architectural language and technical words - architectural vocabulary.

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

Lessons will be supported, as much as possible, by data show technologies, like the projection of films from different authors or periods of architecture, contemplated in the program; the e-learning system; projection of transparencies; Power Point projections; and other particular sources specially oriented for some of the issues (Analysis of the Arquitectural Shape, Typologies and Space Organization , Legislation, among others). Complementarily, discussion on different issues will be stimulated among students (debate inside classes), according to the Program; also some study visits will be programated more related with the sites and constructions analysis.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Eligibility for exams

1 - Development of a practical exerciseof, divided into two phases - (Exercise EP1), gradually supervised by the teacher in practical classes. The exercise has to be concluded in a dossier (obligatory component).
2 - Development of a pratical exercise based on architecture communication supports - struture of designed messages, work tools for civil engineers (Exercise EP2), gradually supervised by the teacher in practical classes; the exercise has to be delivered in a A4 DIN dossier(obligatory component).
3 - Developing of a new exercise - working group and individual work, plus a panel synthesis, illustrative of one of the study visits (Exercise EP3) gradually supervised by the teacher in practical classes; the exercise has to be delivered in a A4 DIN dossier(obligatory component).
4 - Resolution of two mini-test (MT), along the semester (obligatory component).

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, ...)

A - SPECIAL RULES FOR WORKING STUDENTS, etc:

Evaluation through the resolution of a theoretical and practical examination, covering all practical and theoretical issues .
Time of examination = 4 h [ (Part I = 1h) + (Part II = 3h) ], in the same day.

B - SPECIAL RULES FOR MOBILITY STUDENTS:
Proficiency in Portuguese and/or English; Previous attendance of introductory graduate courses in the scientific field addressed in this module; Evaluation by exam and/or coursework(s) defined in accordance with student profile."

Classification improvement

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

Also SEE next Point: "Special Evaluation".

Observations

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Working time estimated out of classes: 7 hours