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The New School
of Architecture and Urbanism of Viseu offers a five-years degree in Architecture and offers a fifth's years specialization
and graduation majors in the following disciplines: Architecture, Urbanism, Conservation or Environmental Planning. The
program is fully accredited in Portugal and in Europe as it follows both the particular requirements of the Portuguese University
Education as well as the general standards of University education set up by the European Community.
History Class Field-Trip to Prehistoric Site near
Viseu
(Photo by First Year Architecture Students)
"My own experience and exchange with colleagues
around the world, and particularly my involvement with 'Vision of Europe' and my two years as a visiting professor
in the 'Notre-Dame Rome Studies Program', set out very clearly to my mind what could be done to improve ethics, love
and passion for architecture, to improve drawing capabilities and theoretical knowledge on architectural history, typologies,
theory of proportions and the orders, to strenghten the feeling for the complete harmony of architecture with its urban
or landscape context, to build up the technical knowledge of building systems, codes and conventions, etc. This ended up on
a 4.400 hours five-year Degree in Architecture, designed with the support of Gabriele Tagliaventi, inspired by the curriculum
of the School of Architecture at the University of Ferrara, and discussed through at the University of Notre-Dame with
Samir Younés, Michael Lykoudis and Norman Crowe."
José Cornélio Da Silva
Coordinator of the Licenciatura em Arquitectura
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Cathedral Square in Viseu
First Year Student's Sketchbook
(Photo by First Year Architecture Students)
This web site has been set up by the
Catholic University of Portugal in order to provide the information about the purpose, the philosophy
and the means of its New School of Architecture and Planning.
The New School is acknowledging the benefit
of collaborating and interacting within an international network of universities and institutions and it supports the
ideals of universality of knowledge and of an academical excellence without frontiers of national, racial, religious or cultural
character.
Sketchbook Study in Viseu
(Photo by First Year Architecture Students)
"The ethical dimension establishes that
architecture be taught and practiced as a civic art. In other words, the architect's primary duty is to contribute toward
building the Good City, by providing a relationship of reciprocal fulfillment between the highest architecture and the highest
political form achievable. In this case, architecture as an expression of private taste occupies a secondary position.
The urban and architectural dimension
designates enduring principles regarding the clarity of typology, architectural character, the beauty of poetic order, the
hierarchy of the public and private buildings, permanence in construction, and a thourough knowledge of the wisdom of traditions."
Samir Younés
Associate Professor of Architecture
Director of Rome Studies
University of Notre Dame
Sketchbook Watercolor Study
(Photo by First Year Architecture Students)
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