Library and Document Centre of the Faculty of Architecture - Porto University
Libraries, archives and documentation centres
The Faculty of Architecture of Porto University Library is specialized in architecture, with emphasis to urban planning and art. It has around 14,000 monographs, more than 300 serial publications, multimedia material (audio and video tapes, CDs and DVDs), cartographic material and online catalogue. It acquires, gathers, treats and divulges pedagogical, scientific and cultural character documentation, produces and divulges information, supports the scientific-pedagogic activity, stimulates the educational process, promotes contacts with other libraries or documentation centres and ensures the conservation and recovery of information.
Since 1993, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto includes in its Document Services, an Urbanism and Architecture Documentation Centre (CDUA), which is responsible for several activities:
i) in the collection, registration, deposit, conservation and safeguarding of funds / archives with “patrimonial, historical, artistic or document value relating to Portuguese and Porto’s architecture and urbanism”, particularly in the 19th century;
ii) the registration, preservation, investigation and dissemination of documentation of patrimonial, historical or artistic value carried over from ESBAP / Architecture Course and / or generated at the Faculty itself;
iii) preventive conservation of 'funds' through their digitization/scanning and creating information systems;
iv) organising cultural activities (by holding exhibitions or loaning documentation of its holdings).
Visit and/or consultation by prior appointment.
Since 1993, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto includes in its Document Services, an Urbanism and Architecture Documentation Centre (CDUA), which is responsible for several activities:
i) in the collection, registration, deposit, conservation and safeguarding of funds / archives with “patrimonial, historical, artistic or document value relating to Portuguese and Porto’s architecture and urbanism”, particularly in the 19th century;
ii) the registration, preservation, investigation and dissemination of documentation of patrimonial, historical or artistic value carried over from ESBAP / Architecture Course and / or generated at the Faculty itself;
iii) preventive conservation of 'funds' through their digitization/scanning and creating information systems;
iv) organising cultural activities (by holding exhibitions or loaning documentation of its holdings).
Visit and/or consultation by prior appointment.
