Learning objectives
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to:
- analyze and understand the relationship between Architecture and City in particular in the experience of the Italian and European city (1st Dublin descriptor);
- apply the skills acquired in the context of the architecture and city project with reference to the contents (2nd Dublin descriptor).
- Collecting and interpreting data relevant to good critical judgement (3rd Dublin Descriptor)
- the acquisition of skills necessary for the communication of the project (4th Dublin Descriptor)
- develop the necessary skills to undertake subsequent studies with a good degree of autonomy (5th Dublin Descriptor).
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The course will focus in particular on the relationship between architecture, pubblic space and the city, where the settlement device experiments the interscalar concatenation of the architectural project in the definition of role, form and figure of the urban part and the volumetric and spatial components that characterize it. The city's historical palimpsest and narrative within which the project is inserted as a conscious variant in a critical relationship with the phenomenology of contemporary transformation. Geometries and physiology of the city of architecture. Narrative sequence and mechanisms of formal and functional articulation of the urban project. Urban identity.
The project site is assumed as a complementary urban part to other urban parts in the definition of a significant and systemic role with the structure of the city and the territory. The scale of the intervention is confronted with the conditions of the context and the theme addressed, its criteria of habitability, also in the relationship with the village and the dialectic between architecture and infrastructure.
Among the objectives of the course there are the acquisition of the ability to elaborate manual work through the sketch technique and critical didacticisation (notes technique), photographic practice of reconnaissance, knowledge and ordering of cartographic materials and design representation, rudiments of use of CAD, rudiments of use of three-dimensional representation, use of books and sources in general; realization of maquettes of spatial and plastic analysis, principles of construction technique.
Full programme
The teaching will have the following program:
- Theoretical contributions in the classroom
- Lectures and conferences dedicated to case studies and projects
-Exercises dedicated to the theoretical principles of the contemporary project
-workshops dedicated to the design exploration of a theme of urban regeneration
Bibliography
E.N.Rogers, Gli elementi del fenomeno architettonico, Milano, 2006
E.N.Rogers, Esperienza dell’architettura, Milano, 1997
A. Rossi, Autobiografia scientifica, Parma, 1990
A. Rossi, L’architettura della città, Milano, 1966
A.Siza, Immaginare l'evidenza, Bari, 1998
A.Siza, Scritti di Architettura, Milano, 1996
P.Zumthor, Atmosfere. Ambienti architettonici. Le cose che ci circondano,Milano,2007
A.Loos, Parole nel vuoto, Milano, 1992
D.Costi, Casa Pubblica e Città, Parma, 2009
Ulteriori indicazioni bibliografiche verranno date nel corso dell'anno.
Teaching methods
The didactic activities will be carried out by privileging active learning methods alternating with lectures, case studies and in-depth seminars. During the case studies (in general authors and/or contemporary architecture projects) the confrontation with the student on architectural design issues will be privileged, also in order to bring out the students' preconceptions on the topics in question.
The lessons will be organized in presence.
Assessment methods and criteria
The Laboratory, provides for the verification of learning through the evaluation of the project intended as synthesis of the student's knowledge and ability to apply it. The final oral test consists of an individual interview through which the knowledge and critical understanding of the built architecture (1st, 2nd Dublin descriptor) in relation to the project will be verified. The interview will also test the student's communicative and learning/reasoning skills, clarity of exposure and the use of discipline specific terminology (4th, 5th Dublin descriptor). The ability to apply the knowledge will be verified through the project papers. During the final test, in the case of group design/exercise, it is necessary that each member of the group masters the whole exercise in its entirety as well as the parts he or she has personally supervised.
Other information
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