Identifying Data 2023/24
Subject (*) Introduction to Architecture Code 630G02005
Study programme
Grao en Estudos de Arquitectura
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Graduate 1st four-month period
First Obligatory 6
Language
Spanish
Galician
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Proxectos Arquitectónicos, Urbanismo e Composición
Coordinador
Caridad Graña, Juan Antonio
E-mail
juan.caridad@udc.es
Lecturers
Abelleira Doldán, Miguel A.
Blanco Lorenzo, Enrique Manuel
Caridad Graña, Juan Antonio
Río Vázquez, Antonio Santiago
E-mail
miguel.abelleira@udc.es
enrique.blanco@udc.es
juan.caridad@udc.es
antonio.rio.vazquez@udc.es
Web http://iala.udc.es
General description Curso inicial dos estudos da Escola de Arquitectura, o primeiro cuadrimestre da carreira quere iniciar a formación da/o futura/o arquitecta/o atendendo dende os momentos iniciais, ó triple soporte reflexivo, proxectivo e construtivo do feito arquitectónico.
Dentro del, Introdución á Arquitectura é a única materia obrigatoria dentro do bloque proxectual e é a encargada de espertar ou de acrecentar o interese pola Arquitectura e pola súa razón de ser, aproximándose ó seu concepto dende a teoría e dende a historia e fomentando a capacidade analítica, o sentido crítico e o desenvolvemento lóxico do alumnado no amplo campo que vai da cidade ao deseño elemental, como territorio propio da arquitectura.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A50 Adequate knowledge of the methods of studying the processes of symbolization, practical functions and ergonomics
A54 Adequate knowledge of aesthetics and theory and history of fine arts and applied arts
A63 Development, presentation and public review before a university jury of an original academic work individually elaborated and linked to any of the subjects previously studied
B1 Students have demonstrated knowledge and understanding in a field of study that is based on the general secondary education, and is usually at a level which, although it is supported by advanced textbooks, includes some aspects that imply knowledge of the forefront of their field of study
B2 Students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and have competences that can be displayed by means of elaborating and sustaining arguments and solving problems in their field of study
B3 Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) to inform judgements that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues
B6 Knowing the history and theories of architecture and the arts, technologies and human sciences related to architecture
B12 Understanding the relationship between people and buildings and between these and their environment, and the need to relate buildings and the spaces between them according to the needs and human scale
C1 Adequate oral and written expression in the official languages.
C4 Exercising an open, educated, critical, committed, democratic and caring citizenship, being able to analyse facts, diagnose problems, formulate and implement solutions based on knowledge and solutions for the common good
C6 Critically evaluate the knowledge, technology and information available to solve the problems they must face
C7 Assuming as professionals and citizens the importance of learning throughout life
C8 Valuing the importance of research, innovation and technological development for the socioeconomic and cultural progress of society.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
Introduce students to architecture by awakening or increasing their interest in it and its reason for being A50
A54
B1
B2
B3
B6
B12
C1
C4
C6
C7
C8
Approach architecture from theory, thought and teaching A50
A54
B1
B2
B3
B6
B12
C1
C4
C6
C7
C8
Introduction to the history of architecture and the projective process of its emblematic buildings A50
A54
B1
B2
B3
B6
B12
C1
C4
C6
C7
C8
Know and enter the territory of architecture as a wide field that goes from the city to elementary design. A50
A54
B1
B2
B3
B6
B12
C1
C4
C6
C7
C8
Promote the analytical capacity, critical sense and logical development of the student in the field of architecture. Know how to see and how to think about architecture. A50
A54
A63
B1
B2
B3
B6
B12
C1
C4
C6
C7
C8

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
I. THE IDEA OF ARCHITECTURE 01. PRESENTATION. APPROACH TO THE IDEA OF ARCHITECTURE (I)
02. DEFINITIONS OF ARCHITECTURE
03. KNOWLEDGE OF ARCHITECTURE
04. TERRITORY AND SCALES OF ARCHITECTURE
II. ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY 05. ORIGINS AND LIMITS OF ARCHITECTURE
06. THE ARCHITECTURE OF CLASSICAL PERIOD
07. THE ARCHITECTURE OF MIDDLE AGE
08. THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM
09. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
10. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT (I)
11. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT (II)
III. THE ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT 12. ARCHITECTURE AND PROJECT
13. ARCHITECTURE AND MEANING
14. ARCHITECTURE AND SHAPE
15. ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION
IV. MASTERS AND ARCHITECTURE 16. MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE
V. ARCHITECTURAL ANALISYS 17. READING AN ARCHITECTURAL WORK (I)
18. READING AN ARCHITECTURAL WORK (II)

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Introductory activities A50 A54 B1 B2 B3 B6 B12 C1 C4 C6 C7 C8 2 0 2
Guest lecture / keynote speech A50 A54 B6 B12 C1 C4 C6 C7 C8 26 0 26
Directed discussion A50 A54 B1 B2 B3 B6 B12 C1 C4 C6 C7 C8 14 0 14
Field trip A50 A54 B6 B12 C1 C4 C6 C7 C8 4 0 4
Supervised projects A50 A54 A63 B1 B2 B3 B6 B12 C1 C4 C6 C7 C8 10 45 55
ICT practicals A50 A54 A63 B1 B2 B3 0 15 15
Objective test A50 A54 A63 B1 B2 B3 B6 B12 C1 C4 C6 C7 C8 2 30 32
 
Personalized attention 2 0 2
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Introductory activities Framing of the subject in the Curriculum, Approach of the course and intended objectives
Guest lecture / keynote speech Theoretical lessons and oral exhibitions supplemented with use of audiovisual media, with the aim to transmit to the students the fundamental basis of the knowledges in order to facilitate his learning. This is the first contact that the students have with Architecture.
Directed discussion Oral exhibitions, with use of audiovisual media, supplemented by active debates with participation of the students, to boost the transmission of the knowledge exposed by professor. In them, the students will owe to interact with teachers, not only posing doubts or questions but participated actively.
Field trip Guided tours will be made by the teaching staff to works of architecture and cities in Galicia linked to the agenda.
Supervised projects As complement of the expositive and interactive lessons, and with the aim to promote the autonomous learning and grupal one. The students will develop practical works of analytical type in diverse formats.
ICT practicals Both the proposals of the supervised works and their elaboration and response will be made through ICT.
Objective test With a maximum length of two hours, it will include proposed questions to be answered on paper, in a written and graphic way.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Supervised projects
Description
As a complement of guided discussions and to promote the Group and autonomous learning for students, practical work of analytical and/or graphic in different formats under the supervision of teachers will be continously develop in small groups and/or individually. All of this under the support of the ENVIDO [Entorno Virtual Docente, virtual docent context] that will facilitate the contact and follow-up of students.

Assessment
La función de sonido está limitada a 200 caracteres
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Supervised projects A50 A54 A63 B1 B2 B3 B6 B12 C1 C4 C6 C7 C8 Satisfactory work corresponding to an adequate progression throughout the course of both individual and group work.
Individual part: 20%
Group part: 20%
40
Objective test A50 A54 A63 B1 B2 B3 B6 B12 C1 C4 C6 C7 C8 Group of theoretical and practical questions related to the contents of the subject. They will be mandatory and will look for an adequate personalization of the final grade. 60
 
Assessment comments
The evaluation of the subject is configured as a weighted sum of the supervised works and the objective tests. Each of the three parts that make up the grade (individual work, group work and objective test) are valued from 0 to 10 points, being necessary to reach a minimum grade of 3 points in each of them to be able to pass the subject.

Attendance and participation in face-to-face classes is necessary to be evaluated. Non-face-to-face work is valued through supervised work according to the percentages described above. The objective test consists of questions and specific analyses of texts, works or architectural fragments that allow to assess the understanding of the particular aspects of the syllabus and make it possible to verify the assimilation of the contents of the subject and the adequate personalization of the grade. The supervised works are practical exercises of personal and / or group elaboration that develop particular and fundamental aspects of the syllabus; in their grade, the graphic ideation and analytical capacity of the student will be especially valued.

In order to be evaluated at the first opportunity (January) the student must meet all of the following requirements:
1. Attend at least 80% of face-to-face classes.
2. Deliver at least 80% of the individual works on the dates indicated.
3. Deliver the group work on the indicated date.
4. Perform the objective test while still answering any of the questions raised.

In case the student does not fulfill any of the first three points she/he will obtain "Not presented" in the opportunities of January and July.

If the student does not take the objective test, having fulfilled the rest of the requirements, he/she will obtain "Not presented" in the opportunity of January

If the student does not pass at the first opportunity as long as he has completed points 1, 2 and 3, it is possible to rework or complete individual practices to improve that partial grade for the second chance.

In the second opportunity (July), only the objective test will be repeated, with the same conditions as in the first opportunity, to which only those students who:

1. they have fulfilled the four requirements indicated above and have not reached the sufficient score to pass.

2. they have completed the three first points but they have not attend the first opportunity objective test.

Those students who enter the course late:

1. They will have to attend a minimum of 90% of the remaining face-to-face classes since their incorporation

2. They will have to deliver in time the individual exercises that are carried out from their incorporation

3. The practices with a date prior to their incorporation will have to be delivered at the time indicated by their teacher.

The other rules that do not contradict the previous ones will be applicable to them as to the rest of students.

Repeating students who in a previous course have fulfilled the requirement of face-to-face attendance are exempt from fulfilling it in subsequent courses.

Repeating students who in a previous year have passed the individual exercises are exempt from doing them again in subsequent courses.

Repeating students who in a previous course have passed the group practice are exempt from doing it again in subsequent courses.

Evaluation in advance call: To be eligible for the evaluation in advance call, the conditions of general evaluation must be met in a previous course.

Students with recognition of part-time dedication and academic exemption from attendance: For these cases, provided that they have official recognition from the management of the center, the minimum attendance requirement will not be taken into account, maintaining the rest of the established general requirements.

Plagiarism: with regard to plagiarism, will be addressed the indicated in article 14 of the Normas de Avaliación, Revisión e Reclamación das Cualificacións dos Estudos de Grao e Mestrado Universitario de la UDC.


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Sources of information
Basic
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1. ALONSO PEREIRA, JOSE RAMON (2012). INTRODUCCION A LA HISTORIA DE LA ARQUITECTURA. BARCELONA, REVERTE

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2. AGRASAR QUIROGA, FERNANDO (2008). EL CONOCIMIENTO DE LA ARQUITECTURA. A CORUÑA, COAG

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3. BENEVOLO, LEONARDO (1982). DISEÑO DE LA CIUDAD (5 vol). BARCELONA, GILI

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6. WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD (1978). EL FUTURO DE LA ARQUITECTURA. EL IDIOMA DE UNA ARQUITECTURA ORGANICA. BARCELONA, POSEIDON

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Complementary

01. IALA (2010). HERRAMIENTAS WEB Y DISEÑO DE APRENDIZAJEINTERACTIVO EN LA ENSEÑANZA TECNICA SUPERIOR. MADRID, UPM
02. IALA (2010). DOCENCIA 2.0. EXPERIENCIAS DE INTRODUCCIONA LA ARQUITECTURA. MADRID, UPM
03. IALA (2009). GENERADOR DE AFICION 2.0. GIRONA, UDG
04. IALA (2009). INTRODUCCION A LA ARQUITECTURA 2.0. VIGO,UDC/UDV/USC
05. IALA (2009). ANALISIS GRAFICO Y DOCENCIA NO PRESENCIAL.VIGO, UDC/UDV/USC
06. IALA (2009). HERRAMIENTAS WEB EN LA FORMACION INCIALDEL ARQUITECTO. VIGO, UDC/UDV/USC
07. IALA (2008). LA WEB 2.0 EN LA ENSEÑANZA DE INTRODUCCIONA LA ARQUITECTURA. GIRONA, UDG
08. BAKER, GEOFFREY (1998). ANALISIS DE LA FORMA. URBANISMOY ARQUITECTURA. BARCELONA, GILI
09. CHING, FRANCIS D.K. (1998). ARQUITECTURA: FORMA,ESPACIO Y ORDEN. BARCELONA, GILI
10. CHING, FRANCIS D.K. (1997). DICCIONARIO VISUAL DEARQUITECTUAR. BARCELONA, GILI
11. CHING, FRANCIS D.K. (1999). MANUAL DE DIBUJOARQUITECTONICO. BARCELONA, GILI
12. CLARK, ROGER YPAUSE, M. (1997). ARQUITECTURA: TEMAS DE COMPOSICION. BARCELONA,GILI
13. LEUPEN, BERNARD (1999). PROYECTO Y ANALISIS. EVOLUCIONDE LOS PRINCIPIOS EN ARQUITECTURA. BARCELONA, GILI;
14. RISEBERO, BILL (1982). HISTORIA DIBUJADA DE LAARQUITECTURA OCCIDENTAL. MADRID, BLUME
15. UNWIN, SIMON (2003). ANALISIS DE LA ARQUITECTURA.BARCELONA, GILI

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Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus
Theory of Architecture/630G02025
History of Art/630G02015
History of Architecture 2/630G02040

Other comments

As part of the tasks of the subject, material synthesis of the work carried out can be prepared for its joint exhibition at the end of the course, in the event organized by the Department of Architectural Projects, Urbanism and Composition: "Arquitecturas en curso. DPAUC" (panels , models, drawings, videos, texts, performances, etc.).

Throughout the course, the teaching staff can recommend attendance at certain informative events (congresses, conferences, symposiums, etc.), organized by the ETSAC, the DPAUC, etc., that are related to the teaching content of the subject, with the aim of providing students with current knowledge and experiences relating to a certain field of study.



(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.