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15220
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| Year |
5
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| Semester |
S1
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| ECTS Credits |
5
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| Workload |
TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Ciências da Representação
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Entry requirements |
Not applicable.
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Learning outcomes |
To understand the importance of the visual system to visual perception.
To explain and be able to use the laws and rules of perceptual organization.
To understand the relationship between depth perception and space, perceived under different conditions.
To accept and recognize the contributions to architecture, given by the study of visual perception.
To be able to estimate how aesthetic impressions has influences on the judgment of space and shape and visual thinking.
To be able to estimate the judgment differences caused by open and closed spaces.
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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.
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Main Bibliography |
Aragonés, J. I. & Amérigo, M. (Coords.) (2010). Psicología Ambiental (3ª Ed.). Pirâmide.
Art in Architecture–Visual Perception. Arqº. Shirish Sukhatme.
http://www.artinarch.com/visual_perception.html
Goldstein, E. B. & Cacciamani, L. (2022). Sensation & Perception (11th edition). Cengage
Learning. ISBN 9780357446478, 035744647X
Schiffman, R. (2005). Sensação e percepção. LCT.
Sternberg, R. J. (2010). Psicologia Cognitiva (5ª Ed). Artmed Editora.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Learning and teaching strategies use combination of lectures, lectures with discussion tutorials, problem based and collaborative practice methodologies. Assessment may include essays and reports, tasks and projects rely in group work and individual work related to the topics of the contents, that provide evidences that students demonstrate understanding and knowledge of the concepts of the unit, and are able to apply this knowledge to interpretation of architectural contexts.
Teaching methodologies intend students to be active in construction of knowledge, and are related to the development of autonomy in research of scientific knowledge, and also the development of group work skills, and the ability to learn and to generate new ideas.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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