Class History of Portuguese Architecture

The curricular unit of History of Portuguese Architecture focuses on the critical analysis of the role of architecture and urbanism in the transformation of the national territory, in response to the broad issues of modernity and post-modernity. We seek to understand the transformations in Portuguese society, in their relationship with the international context, and the role that architects and urban planners played in responding to architectural, urban and territorial challenges. This understanding of modern and Portuguese architecture is structured based on its determining historical moments, summoning the main figures and works that mark these transformations. The knowledge acquired in this unit makes it possible to bring students closer to the Portuguese reality and its more specific issues, in the continuity of the History of Architecture courses with an international scope from the previous stage of the Bachelor.

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1. Portuguese architecture in the international context. History of architecture as an identitarian construction. 2. Pombal's reconstruction and the City of Enlightenment. Plan, construction and urban life. 3. Industrialization and territorial transformation. Great urban plans of Lisbon and Porto and modern typologies. 4. The social problem in the bourgeois city. Workers' villages, the islands and the first social districts. 5. The New State and the question of identity. Portuguese house and national representations. 6. Modern post-war plans. 1948 Congress and collective housing. 7. The synthesis between modernity and tradition. Popular Architecture Survey and the idea of continuity. 8. Action in the revolutionary period. SAAL and the experience of participation. 9. The postmodern debate. Split between Lisbon and Porto school's and private enterprise. 10. The affirmation of Portuguese architecture. Internationalization of disciplinary culture and European community.

Classes of History of Portuguese Architecture will consist mainly of three complementary strands. On the one hand, expository sessions will be held by the teacher of the subjects of the course, duly accompanied by audiovisual material. On the other hand, readings of fundamental texts and the visualization of historical documents will be carried out with the students of the theoretical themes under study, in order to promote the collective critical debate. Finally, the development of the students' work will be monitored throughout the semester, through discussion and guidance with the teacher.  The evaluation of this curricular unit consists of three aspects: 1. Elaboration of an individual or group Research Dossier of case study proposed by the teacher, to be delivered in the middle of the semester (40%). ; 2. Elaboration of individual or group Historical Essay of the case study, to be presented in class in the end of the semester (50%) 3. Attendance and Participation (10%).

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