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14123
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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 |
Art in Architecture–Visual Perception. Arqº. Shirish Sukhatme
http://www.artinarch.com/visual_perception.html
Mugo, H. (2006). Psicologia da arquitectura. Canelas, VNG: Gailivro.
Schiffman, R. (2005). Sensação e percepção. Rio de Janeiro: LCT.
Hoffman, D.D. (2000). Visual Intelligence: How we create what we see. W W Norton & Co., Ltd.
Gregory, R.L. (1997). Eye and Brain: The psychology of seeing. Oxford University Press.
Arnheim, R. (1978). The dynamics of architectural form. University of California Press.
Garling, T. (1969). Studies in visual perception of architectural spaces and rooms. Scand J Psychol. 10(4): 250-6.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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