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Project IV/1

Code 17857
Year 4
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 10
Workload PL(135H)/TP(15H)
Scientific area Arquitetura
Entry requirements As defined in the Integrated Master's Degree Regulations.
Learning outcomes 1 - Establish a unique methodology and individual process that adapts naturally to each student. Establish differences, allowing for constant heterogeneity that converges into homogeneity in terms of participation and the development of each project.
2 - Relate architecture to contemporary society in a wide range of areas, promoting multidisciplinarity and broad knowledge in various fields: cinema, painting, sculpture, design, philosophy, literature, music, ecology, urbanism, and engineering.
3 - Promote a spirit of research, participation, and the exchange of ideas at a theoretical and practical (project) level.
4 - Promote theoretical debate on the main architectural movements and trends, attempting to position students in relation to the dogmas, paradigms, and vicissitudes of different eras, societies, and their respective contexts. Analyze, debate, and compare the various positions in relation to architecture.
Syllabus According to Le Corbusier, to make a good building you need a good architect, to make a good program you need a genius.
In the second cycle of his academic training, with a view to becoming an architect, a clear notion emerges that the responsibility of being active in the community and an agent in the construction of a collective identity, as guardian of a culture, in the architectural action of finding in the design of the place, the place of the design, it becomes clear that as the expression of a diagnosis takes shape, a program emerges as the destination. This term of commission, the “imposition” given to the student and the architect. We would take this word to mean the need to know how to argue and justify “A Reparative Gesture,” with a critical judgment about the city. Thus, in a manifestation of autonomy on the part of the student, in this stage of their training, they are asked to create a text with a logical destination for a piece of equipment, a design for a site.
Main Bibliography A.A.V.V. – Arquitectura Popular em Portugal. 3ª ed. Lisboa: Associação dos Arquitectos Portugueses, 1988.
AMENDOLA, Giandomenico – La Ciudad Postmoderna. Madrid: Celeste Ediciones, 2000.
BENEVOLO, Leonardo – As origens da Urbanística Moderna. Lisboa: Editorial Presença L.da, 1981.
BENEVOLO, Leonardo – A Cidade na história da Europa. 1ª ed. Lisboa: Editorial Presença L.da, 1995.
CALVINO, Italo – As cidades invisíveis. Lisboa: Editorial Teorema, 1993.
CAUQUELIN, A. – L’Invention du paysage. Paris: Presses Universitaire de France, 2000.
CENTENO, Yvette Kace; FREITAS, Lima de ?coord.] – A simbólica do espaço - cidades, ilhas, jardins. 1ª ed. Lisboa: Ed. Estampa, 1991.
CHOAY, Françoise – L’Urbanisme: utopies et réalités. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1965.
DOMINGUES, Álvaro – Vida no campo. Porto: Dafne Editora, 2012.
DOMINGUES, Álvaro – Volta a Portugal. Rio de Janeiro: Edições Contraponto, 2017.
ELIADE, Mircea – O sagrado e o profano - a essência das religiões. Lisboa: Livros do Brasil, ?s.d.
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria Continuous Assessment (attendance/participation): will be based on the interest and quality demonstrated by the student during the academic semester, namely in terms of intervention, participation, and critical contribution to the understanding of the subjects taught and the projects presented. Students must attend 80% of the classes taught.
All work will be presented orally to the class using the elements submitted for each exercise and/or PowerPoint presentations (when necessary). The main objective of these presentations is to share knowledge by promoting debate, criticism, and self-criticism, based on the following

a) Assessment parameters:
1 – Quality of the proposal (whatever the scale – urban planning or architecture);
2 – Technical and functional aspects;
3 – Formal issues;
4 – Graphic representation and artistic quality;
5 – Compliance with the assignment;
6 – Attendance/participation.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2025-10-06

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