Architecture of the 19th-20th Centuries I

Code:

FLUP0173

Acronym:

AQ19-1

Instance: 2007/2008 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Heritage Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	History of Art

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
HA	39	Official Study Plan - LHA	4	2,5	5	-

Objectives

To understand the development of 19th and 20th-century architecture, students will study the theories, movements and figures responsible for the major accomplishments and their relation with the historical and social contexts.

Program

1. Classical ideals and romantic poetics
1.1. From Palladianism to the rediscovery of Greek and Roman antiquity
1.2. The “Picturesque”
1.3. The visionary architecture of Boullée and Ledoux.
1.4. Architecture during Napoleon's time
1.5. Revivalisms. English “Gothic revival” and French Gothic structuralism. Historicist eclecticism. Exotic inspirations

2. Engineering and Architecture
2.1. New materials and techniques. Iron architecture.
2.2. The Universal Exhibitions.

3. From Art Nouveau to proto-rationalism.

4. Birth and dissemination of modern architecture.
4.1. The American vanguard: the School of Chicago.
4.2. Organic architecture
4.3. Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism in architecture.
4.4. Rationalism and Functionalism. De Stijl. Constructivism. Bauhaus. The International Style.
4.5. American Architecture in the period between wars.
4.6. Architecture in the Europe of dictatorships.
4.7. The “New Brutalism”.
4.8. Neo-empiricism.

5. New theoretical constructions in the 1960s and 1970s.
5.1. Criticism of the Modern Movement. Architecture as language. Post-modern architecture.

6. Late 20th-century architecture
6.1. High-Tech architecture
6.2. Minimalism
6.3. Deconstructivism
6.4. New Expressionism
6.5. Ecological trends.
6.6. New Abstraction.

Mandatory literature

BENEVOLO, Leonardo; Historia de la Arquitectura Moderna, Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 1999
GIEDION, Sigfried; Espacio, tiempo y arquitectura, el futuro de una tradición, Dossat, Barcelona, 1982
HITCHCOCK, Henri-Russel; Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Yale University Press, New Haven / London, 1987
KAUFMANN, Emil; Tres arquitectos revolucionarios: Boullée, Ledoux y Lequeu, Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 1980
MIDDLETON, Robin, Watkin, David; Arquitectura Moderna, Aguilar, Madrid, 1979
PATETTA, Luciano; L'architettura dell'Eclettismo, CittàStudi, Milão, 1991

Teaching methods and learning activities

Several methods will be used (explanatory, dialogical, text and image analysis - slides, transparencies, etchings, videos, etc.) in compliance with the contents mentioned above and bearing in mind the most appropriate for the group of students at issue. Dialogue will at all times be valued, urging students to develop their analysis skills, creativity and critical spirit.

Evaluation Type

Assessment Components

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

Eligibility for exams

Class attendance (75%) is required.

Calculation formula of final grade

Continuous evaluation: average mark in the two tests: 60%;
Written assignment: 40%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations.

Classification improvement

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations.

Observations

Language of instruction: Portuguese.