The course aims to provide students with the technical and theoretical knowledge and practical tools necessary to deal with an urban complex project and to develop, up to the scale of the architectural and construction details, the project of a building. Starting from the knowledge acquired during the first three years which regulate all the design process, it aims to provide students with the basic skills to deal with a real case related to a complex project.
Course Prerequisites
The knowledge derived from the courses of Architecture and Architectural Composition 1 and 2, History of Architecture 1 and 2 are preparatory. They are therefore to be considered prerequisites; knowledge of the theories and techniques of architectural design; knowledge of the history of architecture and in particular of the history of modern architecture referable to the modern and postmodern movement.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons Exercises Practical activities and design laboratory Study visit Guest lectures Collective design revision
Assessment Methods
The examin will focus on the discussion of project proposals, on the contents of lectures and bibliography.
Texts
K. Frampton. Tettonica e architettura. Skira, Milano, 2007.
R. Koolhaas, Delirious New York, Electa, Milano 2000.
C. Berizzi. Piazze e spazi collettivi. Nuovi luoghi per la città contemporanea Il Poligrafo, Padova 2018
G. Martinotti, Sei lezioni sulla città, Feltrinelli, Milano 2017.
S. Settis, Architettura e democrazia, Einaudi, Torino 2017.
R. Koolhaas, Junkspace, Quodlibet, Macerata 2006
G. Clement, Manifesto del terzo paesaggio, Quodlibet Macerata 2005.
S. Holl. Parallax, architettura e percezione. Postmedia books, Milano 2004.
Contents
The course consists of lectures and exercises. The course is divided into two distinct parts; the former part it refers to the project on a large scale in relation to the characteristics of the urban environment and landscape, the second part is focus on the projects of a collective buildings and open spaces connected. Within the teaching they find a space with guests the world of research and the profession, and will be proposed study visits.
