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ARQ1355 _ SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE XL Form and Structure in Architecture
Technological and formal experiments in architecture and the interrelationships with the continuous social, urban and environmental in shifts in history and different cultures. Nature and the human aesthetic in Nervi’s thesis. The phenomenological process inherent to structural and formal architectural construction activity. The industrialization of construction: prefabrication and serial reproducibility. Industry and society. Artificial materials and methodological processes of design and construction. Major engineering works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The rationalization of materials and construction systems and the interrelations with the arts and society. Reproducibility serial and suggestions of large-scale collective dwellings. The Brazilian specifications. Aspects of the transition from industrial societies to post-industrial: the new design and construction techniques and new aesthetic paradigms. Study of precedents.
