Class Research Laboratory / Seminars

The Curricular Unit fundamentally aims provide to the students with content and instruments to implement a Dissertation Project (Work Plan), as a consistent basis for the preparation of a master's dissertation.

It has three teaching modules:

1. Theoretical / expository classes with six content presentation sessions that address philosophical and philosophy of science subjects, disciplinary, theoretical, historiographical and the topics about dialectic between the practice of architecture and research.

2. Follow-up sessions for the development of research methodologies and processes.

3. Open seminar / class with architects / invited researchers from outside teaching institutions or research units, with the following topics:

3.1. Master's Work and Subsequent Research Practice

3.2  Restlessness: Interaction of Theory with the Practice of Architecture

I- Notions of Academic Research

II- Types of Research

III- Research in Architecture

IV- Architectural Research

V- Epistemology and Phenomenology

VI- Theory, Research and Professional Practice (cycle of classes with external guests)

a- Master's Work and Subsequent Research Practice

b-  Restlessness: Interaction of Theory with the Practice of Architecture

1. Theoretical classes:

1.1 Expository sessions of the programmed contents.

1.2 Joint debate sessions.

2. Theoretical / practical classes:

2.1 Support for the development of practical work;

2.2 Support in the collection and systematization of data and information;

2.3 Support in documentary research (drawings, projects, images, etc.);

2.4 Support in research work

3. Complementary activities:

3.1 Seminar/Cycle of open classes with external architects/researchers.

Rating criteria:

A - Merit of an article written on a topic chosen by the student, or case study work = 25%.

B - Merit of the Master Thesis Project (Work Plan) + attachments or physical elements = 50%.

C - Merit of Presentation of the Master's Dissertation Project = 25%.

Oral presentation accompanied by a 10-minute audiovisual session (PowerPoint), with a critical appraisal jury made up of two UC professors and DAU/ULTH invited professors.

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HANSON, Julienne (1988). Ten Commandments. Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning: Londres.

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KRÜGER, Mário Teixeira (2002). A Arte de Investigação em Arquitectura. Revista “Em Cima do Joelho”, nº 5, 2002, pp. 22-39, Editorial do Departamento de Arquitectura, Universidade de Coimbra, ISSN: 0874-6168.

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