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Perception and Image

Perception and Image

Code	11998
Year	5
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	5
Workload	TP(45H)
Scientific area	Ciências da Representação
Entry requirements	No entry requirements.
Mode of delivery	Face-to-face.
Work placements	Not applicable.
Learning outcomes	UC want the student to build a comprehensive view of the functioning of the visual system and visual perception and consequent relationship to architecture. - To demonstrate the importance of the contributions of the study of visual perception in architecture. - To describe the importance of the visual system to visual perception. - To describe the relationship between the perceived depth and space, under different viewing conditions. - To explain and be able to use the laws and rules of perceptual organization. - To be able to estimate the judgment differences caused by open and closed spaces. - To be able to estimate how aesthetic impressions has influences on the judgment of space and shape and visual thinking. - To demonstrate bibliographical research skills. - To demonstrate communication skills.
Syllabus	Psychology and Architecture. From architect viewing: Creativity and the architectural objects. From subject viewing: the interaction and recreation of the architectural object. Human interaction with architectural environment: implication of some psychological processes. Vision: light and the visual system, and the image that is reconstructed in mind. Perceiving depth. Perceptual constancies. Figure and ground: The gestalt laws of perceptual organization and the factors that determine which area is figure. Perceptual organization. Perception: constructive and active process – impossible figures. Factors that has influence on visual perception: individuals, environmental, cultural and aesthetic.
Main Bibliography	Arnheim, R. (1977). The dynamics of architectural form. Berkely: University of California Press. Art in Architecture–Visual Perception. http://www.artinarch.com/visual_perception.html Hoffman, D. D. (2000). Visual Intelligence: How we create what we see. W W Norton & Co., Ltd. Schiffman, R. (2005). Sensação e percepção. Rio de Janeiro: LCT. Arnheim, R. (2001). La forma visual de la arquitectura (2ª Ed.). Barcelona: Ed.Gustavo Gil, SA. Matlin, M. W. & Foley, H. J. (1996). Sensación y Percepción (3ª Ed.). México: Prentice Hall HispanoAmericana, S. A. Mugo, H. (2006). Psicologia da arquitectura. Canelas, VNG: Gailivro. Simões, E. A. Q & Tiedemann, K. B. (1985). Psicologia da percepção, Vol. I. São Paulo: EPU. Simões, E. A. Q & Tiedemann, K. B. (1985). Psicologia da percepção, Vol. II. São Paulo: EPU. Solso, R. L. (2001). Cognition and the visual arts. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.