ARCHITECTURAL FOTOGRAPHY

REGENCE

Learning Goals

The subject main purpose is to provide a reflective field around the characteristics and the functional, aesthetic and conceptual connections between photography and architecture. The program aims the identification and analysis of the conditions, themes and significant questions, as well as the tendencies and visual genres that contributed for distinguishing a peculiar territory for architectural photography. It is intended that the student deepen his comprehension and critical sense around a fundamental strand for the practice and study of architecture.

 

Syllabus

Based on the Photography and architecture history, during the classes authors and example works will be presented and discussed around the “dual regime” photography and architecture theme: in one hand, photography as a tool and a representation and communication mean for architecture; and on the other hand, architecture as a privilege theme for the modern and contemporary photography, especially for artistic photography. Documentation and objectivity, historical attention and phenomenological attention, factuality and fictionality, figuration and abstraction, imagery and physicality, are some of the analysis topics.

 

Teaching Methodology

The classes first part will consist on theoretic sessions exposing, relating and analyzing the several themes that fulfill the subject syllabus. The second part will be dedicated to discussion and individual assignments orientation, in which students may choose between a theoretical or theoretical-practical strand. Assignments should be developed around the classes' themes.

 

There will be a continuous evaluation and a classification in a scale from 0 to 20 as a final result. Evaluation criteria: assiduity, discussion participation and analysis ability; individual assignment process, methodology and quality.

Bibliography

AAVV, Spectacular city: photographing the future, Roterdão, Nai, 2007

AAVV, (1961), Arquitectura Popular em Portugal, Sindicato Nacional dos Arquitectos / Associação dos Arquitectos Portugueses / Ordem dos Arquitectos, 1980/1988/2004

Batchen, Geoffrey, Burning with desire, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1999

Chevrier, Jean-François, Des territoires, Paris, L’Arachnéen, 2011

Crary, Jonathan, Suspensions of perceptions: Attention, spectacle, and Modern Culture, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1999

Damisch, Hubert, La dénivelée. À l’epreuve de la photographie, Paris, Seuil, 2001

Dean, Tacita e Millar, Jeremmy, Place, Londres, Thames & Hudson, 2005

Dubois, Philippe, (1982), O acto fotográfico, Lisboa, Veja, 1992

Elwall, Robert, Building With Light, The International History of Architectural Photography, Londres, Merrel, 2004

Frizot, Michel, Nouvelle histoire de la Photographie, Paris, Larousse, 2001

Krauss, Rosalind, (1990), O fotográfico, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 2002

Lugon, Olivier, Le style documentaire, Paris, Macula, 2004

Roberts, John, The Art of Interruption, Manchester, MUP, 1998

Schaeffer, Jean_Marie, L’image précaire. Du dispositif photographique, Paris, Seuil, 1987