当代大都市地区建筑学博士学位（仅限葡萄牙语）

The course provides the construction of a multidisciplinary frame, based on the exchange of ideas among persons coming from multiple areas about topics and metropolitan phenomena present in contemporary culture. This base allows the incorporation of a wide range of research possibilities to be achieved by the PhD candidates, which can encompass both the perceptions of the changes in thinking and the current territory, as deepening in historiographical subjects.

Study cycle's generic objectives

1. To promote innovative research methodologies and strategies in the field of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories;
2. To contribute towards research production development in the transdisciplinary field of the contemporary city, mostly centered on the phenomena of metropolitanism;
3. To participate in the advanced professional qualification of architects, landscape architects, artists and other actors in territory development in general, and, more specifically, in metropolitanism;
4. To intervene in territorial qualification projects connected to contemporary city fundamental concepts and the mutations in its’ landscape;
5. To develop associations with national and international fellow institutions.

COURSES.THESIS

The Phd Thesis can be developed in the field of a strictly theoretical research work, but also through a compilation of articles, or the development of research under the provisions of D.L. 230/2009 of September 14th based on the development of architectural, or artistic, based projects.