Class Métodos de Investigação em Arquitectura I

The Curricular Unit has three teaching modules:

a) The Art of Research in Architecture;

b) Research Methodologies and Information Technology,

c) and Outline of Thesis Project.

The program covers various methods of research in architecture and urbanism: the scientific method and its implications in disciplinary, theoretical and philosophical issues, as well as the relationship of building-project with the theory and history of architecture and, also the social sciences with the area of urbanism. Furthermore bibliographic research, field work and laboratory studies in architecture and urbanism are also adressed.

This course seeks to develop, in an introductory way, a systematic approach to the topics listed above, which unfolds the following itens:

Documentary sources
Methodology and tools;
Processes and Products in Urban Planning;
Rules and Models in Architecture;
Treatment, Systematization, Archive and Information Retrieval.

The program covers various methods of research in architecture and urbanism: the scientific method and its implications in disciplinary, theoretical and philosophical issues, as well as the relationship of building-project with the theory and history of architecture and, also the social sciences with the area of urbanism. Furthermore bibliographic research, field work and laboratory studies in architecture and urbanism are also adressed.

This course seeks to develop, in an introductory way, a systematic approach to the topics listed above, which unfolds the following itens:

Documentary sources
Methodology and tools;
Processes and Products in Urban Planning;
Rules and Models in Architecture;
Treatment, Systematization, Archive and Information Retrieval.

Also include innovative methodologies to support the teaching-learning process used

• Borden, I. - Ru¿edi, K. (2000) The Dissertation. An architecture Student¿s Handbook . Londres: Architectural Press.
• Ghiglione, R. - Matalon, B. (1992) O Inque¿rito ¿ Teoria e Pra¿tica . Oeiras: Celta.
• Hanson, J. (1988) Ten Commandments . Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning: Londres. Hillier, B. 
• Hanson, J. (1989) The Social Logic of Space . Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.

• Kru¿ger, M. J. T. (2001) ¿A Arte de Investigac¿a¿o em Arquitectura¿: ECDJ , n.o 5, pp. 22- 39.

• Kru¿ger, M. J. T. (2005) Leslie Martin e a Escola de Cambridge . Coimbra: Edar

• Mitchell, W. (1999) The Logic of Architecture . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.