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1 CIEE Lisbon, Portugal Course name: Lisbon: City and Architecture Course number: AHIS 3003 LILC Programs offering course: Lisbon Language and Culture Language of instruction: English U.S. Semester Credits: 3 Contact Hours: 46 Term: Fall 2018 Course meeting times: Tuesdays 10:00-12:30 am and Thursdays 10:00-11:30 am Course meeting place: Room 606, Tower B Professor: Joana Estorninho de Almeida, PhD Contact Information: jalmeida@ciee.org Course Description This course covers the history of Lisbon from Roman times to the present by analysing selected aspects of urbanism and architecture and their relationship with Portuguese and international historical contexts. In this course students will have the privilege of visiting World Heritage Monuments and Cultural Landscape and learn how to understand urban development and to read historical buildings. Learning Objectives This course provides an overview of important themes in Lisbon s architecture and urbanism, and of some important monuments in Lisbon s outskirts. In this course, students will develop their seeing and critical skills as a way to understand the history of the city. We will pay special attention to Lisbon s topography, the development and role of each neighborhood and the significant buildings that characterize a quarter or a particular period in time. Course Prerequisites No prerequisites. Methods of Instruction The course will be organized in lectures and in-field classes. In the classroom, we will analyze and discuss strategies of seeing architecture and urban development, the main periods of the history of

2 Lisbon and its main buildings. In each study visit, we will explore an area of the city or a particular building, corresponding to an important subject of the history of the city and its architecture. Assessment and Final Grade In addition to attendance and participation, the methods of assessment are listed below indicating the percentage of each element in the final grade: Journal 20% Midterm 20% Two posts 20% Final Essay 40% Course Requirements Journal Students should record in a journal information from each lesson: images, drawings, stories or other elements that caught the student s attention and should be kept as a memory so that they can be used for their assignments. The use of art history concepts and vocabulary is required. Midterm In middle of the course, students will have to answer an in-class test. Images of buildings, maps and other representations will be presented and students will have to identify them, adding a description and contextualization. Two Posts Students will have to write two short texts on two of our visits. Each text must consist of a very short description of the visit and of the buildings visited within a historical contextualization of the neighbourhood and of a personal analysis of the lesson (max 20 lines). Critical thinking is expected. The best posts will be selected to be published in the Blog/Facebook page of the class. Final Essay The essay should have between 1000 and 1200 words. Choose a building, an object or a detail from the lesson that interested you the most. Create a point of view and construct a narrative that contextualizes the history of that building, or that object. Don t forget to focus on the history of the building and the relationships with its urban and historical contexts to understand the neighborhood s specific characteristics built through time. Show attention to aspects discussed during the visit, put into practice concepts learned through readings and develop your own personal sensitivity and interests. Plagiarism Note that un-credited use of someone else's work or ideas will be considered plagiarism. Essays with total or partial forms of plagiarism will be graded with a ZERO. For more information on plagiarism, see

3 Attendance and Class Participation CIEE students are required to attend all classes. Absences are not allowed. If you are sick, you must inform your professor and provide a doctor s note to the Resident Director. Half a point will be subtracted to your final grade if you miss 5 hours of classes. A point will be subtracted to your final grade if you miss 6 hours of classes. Two points will be subtracted to your final grade if you miss 7 hours of classes. You will fail the course if you miss more than 7 hours of classes. Students are expected to prepare the assigned readings and to participate actively in in-class discussions. Classroom rules: - No food or drink is permitted in the classrooms - Limited use of technology (computer and mobile) - Students must come to class prepared to participate fully in the day s activities Rules during on-site visits: - Be on time - Bring journal - Bring appropriate clothes and shoes Schedule 1 st lesson.- COURSE PRESENTATION: Classroom Summary: Course structure, objectives and assessment. 2 nd lesson INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF LISBON: Classroom Summary: The History and Geography of Lisbon in general terms since antiquity until nowadays. Lisbon s localization and its geo-strategically importance since the first moment of globalization. Some factors of Lisbon s topography and history that have been decisive to its plan and architecture. Romanization. Introduction to Portuguese History. Timeline construction. 3 rd lesson MEDIEVAL LISBON: Classroom Summary: Contextualizing Portuguese History during medieval times: Barbarian invasions after the fall of the Roman Empire; the Moorish times; the Christian conquest and the Portuguese territory. The development of Lisbon during medieval times since the Moorish conquest to King Fernando reign. The Alcazar at the upper part of the city and Almedina towards the river Tagus. Readings: MIRANDA, Maria Adelaide, The awakening of an identity, in History of Plastic Arts, Synthesis of Portuguese Culture, Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 1991, pp

4 ROSSA, Walter e TRINDADE, Luísa, Problems and precedents of the Portuguese city : understanding medieval urbanism and its morphology, in Murphy, nr 1 (March), Coimbra, 2006, pp th lesson CASTEL HILL: Fieldtrip Summary: Visit to Alfama, St. George s Castle and Lisbon Cathedral. Roman and Moorish Lisbon, and Christian appropriation of Muslim spaces. 5 th lesson The 15 th and 16 th Centuries: Classroom Summary: We will analyse this period in Portuguese and European history and its influence in architecture. We will focus on how Manueline style crossed Renaissance Portuguese experience. We will examine the main buildings and urban interventions in Lisbon in this period. Readings: PEREIRA, Paulo, Lisbon in the days of King Manuel I ( ), Lisboa: Instituto Português de Museus, th lesson BELÉM: Fieldtrip Summary: Visit to Monastery of Jerónimos and Belém Tower: Late Gothic, Manueline and Renaissance styles; Lisbon during the early modern period. 7 th lesson ARRÁBIDA: Fieldtrip (all day) Summary: Visit to the Convent of Arrábida and Quinta da Bacalhoa in Azeitão. 16 th century architecture. 8 th lesson Lisbon in the 17 th Century: Classroom Summary: We will discuss the causes and consequences of the dual Portuguese-Spanish monarchy (1580 to 1640) and the so-called restoration period for the history of Lisbon. Readings: KUBLER, George Alexander, Portuguese Plain Architecture between spices and diamonds , Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1972, pp th lesson MERCADO SANTA CLARA: Fieldtrip Summary: Visit to São Vicente de Fora and the National Pantheon: 17 th century Portugal, Maneirism and Baroque. 10 th lesson Baroque in Lisbon: Classroom Summary: We will explore deeper the Joanine period, analysing examples of Palaces and other buildings on the eve of the Earthquake (1755).

5 Readings: A.A.V.V., Lisbon in the Age of Dom João V ( ), Lisboa: Instituto Português de Museus, FRANCIS, Alan David, Portugal : Joanine, Pombaline and Rococo Portugal as seen by British diplomats and traders, London: Tamesis Books Limited, th lesson Lisbon before the Earthquake: Classroom. Summary: Debriefing of the fieldtrips. Revisions for the midterm. 12 th lesson MIDTERM: Classroom. 13 th lesson The Earthquake and the transformation of the city: Classroom Summary: Lisbon in the second half of the 18 th century and the development of a new city design. We will explore the role of the Portuguese minister Marques de Pombal, the Enlightenment in Portugal and the so-called Pombaline style. Readings: BIRMINGHAM, David, The Golden Age and the Earthquake in the Eighteenth Century, in A Concise History of Portugal. Cambridge: CUP, 2003, pp UNDERWOOD, David, The Pombaline style and international Neoclassicism in Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, Michigan: UMI Dissertation Services, 1988, p. 115 e ss. 14 th lesson BAIXA: Fieldtrip Summary: Visit to Terreiro do Paço (now Praça do Comércio), Rossio, and Chiado. The Earthquake of 1755 and the birth of a new city. From the Iluminist to Romantic Lisbon: the bourgeois society. 15 th lesson Lisbon in the 19 th century: Classroom Summary: The French invasions, the Portuguese liberal revolution, the civil war and the crisis of the Monarchy. Romanticism, Naturalism and the influence of French Art movements in Portugal. Readings: SIMON, William Joel, Scientific expeditions in the Portuguese overseas territories, , and the role of Lisbon in the intellectual-scientific community of the late eighteenth century, Lisboa: Inst. de Invest. Cient. Tropical, th lesson AJUDA: Fieldtrip Summary: Visit to the Royal Palace of Ajuda and its gardens. Rebuilding Lisbon: how the monarchs are supposed to live in a neo-classical era. Attention will be drawn to artistic choices (building types, decorative styles, interior design) and the reshaping of the royal persona (new tastes, interests and habits).

6 17 th lesson SINTRA: Fieldtrip (all day) Summary: Visit to the National Palace of Sintra, the village streets, and Pena s Palace. 18 th lesson Lisbon in modern times: Classroom Summary: The end of the monarchy in Portugal, the transition to the so-called First Republic and the authoritarian dictatorship ( The New State ). We will explore how political, social and cultural transformations shaped new plans for the city and new types of architecture in the beginning of the 20 th century. Readings: BRITES, Joana, Architecture and political scenography: the monastery of Jerónimos in the Portuguese World exhibition of 1940, in Murphy, nr 2 (July), Coimbra, 2007, pp CALLADO, José Carlos Pereira Lucas, Interactivity in housing design: an approach for a model: a comparative analysis of the avenidas novas, Alvalade and Olivais Norte districts, Lisbon, [S.I.: s.n.], th lesson AVENUES: Fieldtrip Summary: Visit to Avenidas Novas and Gulbenkian Museum and gardens. We will go through architectural examples of Lisbon s modernity, exploring the late 1920 s-1930 s ideas for a rational and orderly city in the context of a dictatorship: Instituto Superior Técnico; Instituto Nacional de Estatística; Casa da Moeda; main Avenues; Church of Nossa Senhora de Fátima. We will proceed to visit the headquarters of Gulbenkian Foundation which occupy an area of 25,000m2 and was a landmark for the Portuguese cultural scene from the late 60 s on. We will explore the harmony and functionality of the buildings as well as of the gardens. Recommendations: Use confortable shoes and bring food for a picnic in Gulbenkian. 20 th lesson A political prison in the city centre: Fieldtrip Summary:: Visit to Aljube. 21 st lesson Modern and Post-Modern Architecture in Lisbon: Classroom Summary:. This lesson offers fundamental information about contemporary Portuguese architecture and architects. We will explore the options of the rebuilding of Chiado after the fire of 1988 and the postmodernist projects for the city. We will also look at the development of new building types, from football stadiums to commercial centres, from Metropolitan stations to model villages and the reaction against industrial look. 22 nd lesson PARQUE DAS NAÇÕES: Fieldtrip Summary: Visit to the Expo 98 site and Lisbon Oceanarium. Lisbon today: growth, redevelopment and architectural purpose.

7 23 rd lesson OVERVIEW of Lisbon: Classroom Summary: Wrap up. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY FERNANDES, José Manuel, Architecture. Synthesis of Portuguese Culture, Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, RODRIGUES, Ana Duarte, Lisboa, Rainha dos Oceanos/Lisbon, Queen of the Oceans, Lisboa: Scribe, 2011.

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