Modern and Contemporary Architecture: Representation and Intervention

• Environment and Sustainability in Projects of Archicteture and Urbanism
• Laboratory of Projectual Practices in Architecture, Urbanism and Design
• Project, Production and Management of Social Housing in Brazil
• Referential Projects in Contemporary Architecture
• Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Architecture
• City, Architecture and Public Space Uses
• Technological Innovations and Experimentations in Architecture
• Project Instruments for Vulnerable Areas
• Architectural Project Reading and Strategies
• Housing Project, Production and Management

Modern and Contemporary City Planning: Representation and Intervention

• Urban Form and Environmental Design
• Urban Mutations, Innovation and Sustainability
• New Strategies of Urban Project and Intervention
• Theory and Criticism of International Urban Planning and Urban Projects in Brazil
• Special Topics in Architecture and Urbanism
• Cultural Heritage and Management of Historic Neighborhoods
• Local Development and Urban Projects
• Policy and Environmental Management
• Urban Spaces, Lew and Sustainable Development
• New Strategies of Urban Project and Intervention
• Urban Plans and Projects - Methods, Scales and Processes
• Contemporary Urbanism and Public Spaces

REQUIRED SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES (“ATIVIDADES PROGRAMADAS OBRIGATÓRIAS” – APO): APOs emphasize the relationship with research and exchange activities between faculty and students, as well as provide for program-credit flexibility. They include:

•             Scheduled Master’s Activities: Generate four (04) credit units – Required Scheduled Activity for Applied Research Methodology in Architecture and Urban Planning, offered annually for first- and second-semester students, and one (01) credit unit in Required Scheduled Activities for the Program: Jornada Discente da Pós-Graduação and/or Scheduled Readings, offered annually and alternately, one in the first and the other in the second semester.

•             Required Scheduled Scientific Production Activity: one scientific paper published in the annals of qualified events or qualified journals for the relevant domain of knowledge.

•             Scheduled Doctoral Activities: Generate sixteen (16) credit units in Required Thesis Seminar Activities. Thesis Development Seminars are distributed as follows: Seminars I, II, III and IV, required for classes from the 1st to the 4th semester, contributing to the evolution of the student’s thesis project from the beginning.

• THESIS SEMINAR I – data collection: data required for the doctoral research and what is to be done;
• THESIS SEMINAR II – expansion of each of the project’s topics;
• THESIS SEMINAR III – Pre-evaluation commission. Research project at its current stage; evolution from the project submitted for the Research Methodology subject;
• THESIS SEMINAR IV – full article. Required Scheduled Scientific Production Activity: two scholarly papers published in the annals of qualified events or qualified journals for the relevant domain of knowledge.