Academic Year 2024/ 2025
1st SEMESTER COURSE UNITS
METHODOLOGIES AND PRACTICES RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE
João Rosmaninho - coordination
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Bruno Figueiredo (Construction and Technology)
Ivo Oliveira (City and Territory)
Jorge Correia (Architectural Culture)
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Bernardo Providência (Design)
Susana Gaudêncio (Art)
The Course Unit aims to provide students with the ability to research and organise research in architecture, combining different scientific methods and models. By introducing tools that anticipate and encourage more in-depth work in the second semester, in the preparation of the Thesis Project in Architecture and then the Thesis, the Course Unit will expand the approaches to each of the three specialities of the Doctoral Degree in Architecture (City and Territory, Construction and Technology, and Architectural Culture), also promoting the areas of Design and Art as natural extensions of Architecture and as scientific areas of knowledge of the EAAD. Finally, pointing to different levels and problems of research in Architecture, both individual and collaborative, activities underway or within the framework of Lab2PT will also be included (UMinho’s R&D unit) and IN2PAST (associated laboratory).
ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE SEMINAR
João Rosmaninho - coordination
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Ana Rita Alves (UCoimbra / CES - Anthropology, Urban Studies)
Francisco Ferreira (UNOVALisboa / FCT – Environmental Engineering)
Helena Pires (UMinho / ICS / CECS – Visual and Urban Culture)
Joana Pimenta (Harvard University / Film Study Center - Cinema)
Manuel Guerreiro (UValencia / IIS La Fe - Medicine)
Maria Augusta Babo (UNOVALisboa / FCSH – Communication Sciences)
Maria Manuel Oliveira (UMinho / EAAD – Architecture, Architectural Culture)
Paulo Cruz (UMinho / EAAD / Lab2PT – Engineering, Construction and Technology)
Rebeca Blanco-Rotea (UMinho / Lab2PT - Geography, Archaelogy)
Rui Tavares (UNOVALisboa / FCSH / IfILNOVA - History)
The Course Unit will always favour a disciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, post-disciplinary, and - why not? - indisciplinary scope of architecture. Through the inclusion of contents, methods and research results from within the field, but also from outside it (the course will include several external guests and different contributions), possible paths will be explored to allow the student to develop a capacity for critical analysis and reflection, as well to acquire autonomy through various examples and processes of advanced knowledge.
2nd SEMESTER COURSE UNITS
THESIS PROJECT IN ARCHITECTURE
Eduardo Fernandes - coordination
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Ana Luísa Rodrigues (Architectural Culture)
Cidália Silva (City and Territory)
Vincenzo Riso (Construction and Technology)
Following the work carried out in the first semester, namely in Methodologies and Research Practices in Architecture, the Course Unit aims to motivate the problematisation and deepening of a specific theme to consolidate a work plan that explains and structures the research to be carried out in the Thesis. The practical component of the Course Unit will include specific supervision for each of the three specialities of the EAAD Doctoral Degree in Architecture (City and Territory, Construction and Technology, and Architectural Culture). At the end of the work, the plan drawn up will be presented publicly and assessed by a jury constituted by EAAD faculty and external guests.
OPTION - ADVANCED STUDIES
IN CITY AND TERRITORY
Rute Carlos - coordenação / coordination
LEISURE LANDSCAPES
The Course Unit proposes a reflection on the economic and social phenomenon of tourism and its repercussions on contemporary territory. It will cover from the valorisation of archaeological and historical heritage to monumentalisation and specialised routes; from thermal architectures to generic typologies and the new formats of leisure architectures; from Modern spa towns to contemporary exotic resorts; from tourism infrastructures to mass mobility; from leisure artefacts to the transformation of tourist territory supports. The Course Unit aims to promote the production of autonomous and critical thinking on the topics covered, as well as to address interdisciplinarity and its contribution to the construction, management and use of the territory.
OPTION - ADVANCED STUDIES
IN CONSTRUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY
Elisiário Miranda - coordination
MODERN TROPICAL HERITAGE
During the period between the end of the Second World War and the revolution of 25 April 1974, Portuguese former overseas colonies/provinces were fertile ground for the free dissemination of the forms and principles that made up the architecture of the international Modern Movement. By providing the necessary technical tools for territories that experienced an undergoing rapid industrial and demographic development, modern architectural production made a decisive contribution to shaping the built landscape of its main urban centres. The Course Unit aims to provide knowledge and interpretation of this architectural production, as well as a moment of reflection on possible strategies for its preservation and reuse in the different cultural, social and productive contexts of the new Portuguese-speaking countries.
OPTION - ADVANCED STUDIES
IN ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE
João Cabeleira + Pedro Bandeira - coordination
REPRESENTATION AND IMAGE
The Course Unit explores the various forms of graphic, visual, and digital representation that are fundamental to contemporary architectural practice. It also incorporates studies on image theory, examining how images are produced, interpreted, and used in the architectural context. The aim is to provide students with a discourse on these tools in the conception, research, communication, and analysis of architecture while promoting a critical understanding of the impact of images and representations on the perception and interpretation of built space. In this way, the course encourages innovation and reflection on visualisation methods and their implications for architectural design and thinking.
