Teaching architecture in the training of civil engineering students at FEUP

Abstract

In recent years the discipline of Architecture in Master of Civil Engineering at FEUP, has been showing to future engineers the common territory of architecture and civil engineer. By building technologies, particularly structural systems, the pedagogic methodology shows this basilar triad, construction technology / structural system / architectural form, for the understanding of architectural grammar. In the lectures, with concrete cases in the history of architecture addresses the integrated design methodology. In practical classes, the analysis of specific projects, the preparation of drawings and even the preparation of models, shows the students the construction system in the studio and in the site, through the design tools. This article seeks to present the developed experience of the recent years in this course, in order to contribute to the increasingly urgent intersection of Architecture and Engineering.