Leaflet for Plan A Academic year 2024/2025
If research in architecture implies disciplinary and non disciplinary pacts, what will these intentions mean in a cycle of studies such as a doctoral Degree? And how will these commitments be designed or built? In a present characterised by severe crises (from the climatic to the ideological one, from housing to public health, from the scarcity of resources to the excess of images, from the problems of the material to the dilemmas of the immaterial, among others), can architectural research articulate with our local and global contexts, our past and our futures?
Seeking to answer these questions and others, the 2023/2024 edition of the Doctoral Degree in Architecture of the School of Architecture, Art and Design proposes a restless but cultured research path, centred on Architecture and in connection with Visual Arts and Product Design. Starting by navigating a surface of advanced knowledge and critical thinking in the specialty area of Architectural Culture, Plan A will then allow you to dive deeper into themes, objects and cases with greater specificity and, perhaps, different specialty
The first year of the three that make up the course will be centred around five curricular units. In the first semester, disciplinary research methods will be developed alongside inter- and transdisciplinary contents. In the second semester, the thesis plan will be developed alongside two options in different speciality areas (namely: City and Territory; Construction and Technology; Architectural Culture). During the following two academic years the student will work on his thesis under tutorial guidance.
Supported by a group of teachers and researchers with pedagogical and scientific activity in the three areas of specialisation in Architecture, the cycle of studies will also be determined by the contributions of guests from other fields, such as Art and Design (already associated with the EAAD's own integrated identity) but also anthropology, archaeology, cinema, communication, engineering, geography, history and health, among others.
