Class Constructive Methods

This course aims to show the intimate relationship between construction techniques and architectural forms, in other words, how the History of Architecture has always been inseparable from the History of Construction. The programme, therefore, includes a series of theoretical lessons on the life of forms (Focillon), where concrete examples will be used to enable more effective learning and a more conscious and informed approach to project practice. This link will be further strengthened by the development of practical work, which will take place throughout the semester, based on the design process underway in Project V.

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1] Presentation 2] The logical construction of architecture (Type, model, form, structure, material, some abuses and treatises) 3] The trilithic system 1 (The Greek Temples, intercolumniations and spans) 4] The trilithic system 2 (Palladio, Inigo Jones, Thomas Jefferson, Schinkel, Mies et al.) 5] Class devoted to practical work 6] From the invention of the arch (Roman) to the petrification of the shoring (Gothic) (Two paths: the free span and structural protagonism) 7] The Renaissance of the ancients and architectural ornament (Alberti and Roman architecture, Grassi et.al) 8] Class devoted to practical work 9] The classical orders, the conquest of height and the loss of scale (Michelangelo and the invention of the Giant order, Baroque, Neoclassicism; competition for the Chicago Tribune and Adolf Loos' proposal) 10] Flexibility in Architecture (Baroque enfilade, modern movement and some contemporary examples) 11, 12, 13, 14] Classes dedicated to practical work 15] Work presentation

The idea is to develop an essay (text, drawing, photograph, collage, etc.) that, based on the current project, identifies the main issues raised by the ‘commission’ and reflects on the proposal presented, taking into account one or more of the themes mentioned in class (for example: type, model, scale, stratum, module, space, structure, ornament, concinnity, logical construction, the 'law of Ephesus', sustainability, etc.) and, whenever possible, using examples from the student's research for the project. This exercise could form the basis of possible future research.

FRAMPTON, Kenneth, Introdução ao Estudo da Cultura Tectónica (tradução: André Martins Barata; revisão técnica: Paulo Martins Barata), cadernos de arquitectura, Lisboa, Associação dos Arquitectos Portugueses e Matosinhos, Contemporânea Editora, 1998. FRAMPTON, Kenneth, Studies in Tectonic Culture, The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture (John Cava ed.), Chicago, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts and London, MIT Press, 1995. GRASSI, Giorgio, La construcción lógica de la Arquitectura (traductor F. Sena Cantarell), Barcelona, C.O.A.C.B., 1973. LOOS, Adolf, Adolf Loos: escritos (Adolf Opel y Josep Quetglas ed), Madrid, El Croquis, 1993. TESSENOW, Heinrich, Osservazioni elementari sul costruire (a cura di Giorgio Grassi; trad.Sonia Gessner), 7ª ed., Milano, Franco Angeli, 1987. VAN-der-ROHE, Mies, Escritos, diálogos y discursos (prólogo James Marston Fitch), Murcia, Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores y Arquitectos, 2003.