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11998
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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 |
No entry requirements.
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Mode of delivery |
Face-to-face.
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Work placements |
Not applicable.
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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.
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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 |
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.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Teaching methodologies pretend that students are active in construction of knowledge, and are related to the development of autonomy in research of scientific knowledge, and also the development of team 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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