Learning objectives
At the end of the learning experience, each student must have acquired the tools and basic knowledge of urban morphology and the configuration of public space. He will have to be able to critically connect this knowledge in order to equip himself with an analytical-urban background suitable for reading the city of the 21st century
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The course aims to provide students with the fundamental knowledge, in the field of contemporary architectural culture, aimed at constituting an educational and intellectual base indispensable to the profession of architect in the 21st century. The lessons will therefore be based on the reading of the Anthropic Landscape from the Territory to the Architecture scale, highlighting and defining, from time to time, its fundamental concepts. There are four lesson cycles, at the end of each of which there will be a critical analysis of one of the topics covered, through reflection and analysis of a significant text. For each cycle of lectures, a dispensation will be provided on the topics addressed.
The students will have to carry out an exercise consisting of the typological and morphological reading of a block in the historic center of Parma to verify and test the concepts and tools learned during the year.
At the end of the academic year there will be an individual interview aimed at verifying the knowledge of the topics covered by the course and of the texts recommended in the Bibliography.
Full programme
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Bibliography
In addition to those indicated in the Course:
FIRST CYCLE
On the architecture of the primitive typologies, on the "reasons" of living and in general on the themes
territorial:
- G.Cataldi (edited by) Actuality of the primitive and the traditional in architecture Alinea, Florence 1989.
- G.Cataldi For a science of the Territory Alinea, Florence 1977.
- S. Muratori Civilization and Territory C.S.S.U., Rome 1967.
- C.Norberg-Schulz Genius Loci Electa, Milan 1979.
- C.Norberg-Schulz L'abitare Electa, Milan 1984.
SECOND CYCLE
On the city as an organism, on the main "urban types" and on the relationship between building typology and morphology
urban:
- A.Rossi The architecture of the city Marsilio, Padua 1966.
- M.Romano Building the Skira cities, Milan 2004.
THIRD AND FOURTH CYCLE
On the concepts of Type, Model, Building Type, Typological Process and for the analysis and knowledge of
fabrics and building types:
- G.Caniggia, G.L.Maffei Architectural composition and building typology: reading of the basic building
Marsilio, Venice 1984.
- G.Caniggia Structures of the anthropic space Uniedit, Florence 1986.
- A. Monestiroli The architecture of reality U. Allemandi, Turin 1999.
ADDITIONAL LEARNING MATERIAL:
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Teaching methods
There are four lesson cycles, at the end of each of which there will be a critical analysis of one of the topics covered, through reflection and analysis of a significant text. For each cycle of lectures, a dispensation will be provided on the topics addressed.
The students will have to carry out an exercise consisting of the typological and morphological reading of a block in the historic center of Parma to verify and test the concepts and tools learned during the year.
Assessment methods and criteria
At the end of the academic year there will be an individual interview aimed at verifying the knowledge of the topics covered by the course and the recommended texts in the Bibliography. The evaluation is sufficient if the student demonstrates an acquired ability to critically address and expose the topics covered.
Other information
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