48295 - Architectural and Urban Composition

Course contents

The thesis workshop starts with a first section on April 2013 to develop an intensive program until mid-July for a total of 12 weeks.
The second section will be held on mid-September and ends in mid-March 2014. (Final exams).
The research conducted by fifth year students will have as its objective the museum display of archaeological sites identified within the geographical area of Emilia-Romagna. The research will then give possible answers about the historical knowledge of archaeological sites, the material condition of the finds, recovery, conservation and protection, their utilization within a structured and coherent way, the possibility of intervention of archeology experimental.
NOTE
Is desirable the participation in the International Seminar of Museum Studies - International Prize for Architecture and Archaeology "Giambattista Piranesi" held at the Villa Adriana in Tivoli, held every year in the first two weeks of September. The seminar, which this year has reached its tenth edition, has as its objective the museum display of some internal sites to the archaeological complex of Hadrian. The Faculty of Architecture in Cesena recognizes to the students 4 credits. For more details on the International Seminar can be found at www.premiopiranesi.gmail.com

Readings/Bibliography

A specific bibliography will be provided during the lessons.

Selected bibliography:

Etienne-Louis Boulée, Architecture. Essai sur l'art; a cura di H. Rosenau: Boullée's Treatise on Architecture, Alec Tiranti, London, 1953; a cura di L.-M. Pérouse de Montclos: Etienne-Louis Boullée Architecture. Essai sur l'art, Paris, 1968 (comprende altri scritti di Boullée); tr. it. Architettura Saggio sull'arte, introduzione di Aldo Rossi, Padova, 1967, pp. 72-74.

Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy, Dictionnaire d'Architecture, Encyciopédie méthodique, I, Paris, 1789; 2 voll, 1832; tr. it.: Dizionario Storico di Architettura, Fratelli Negretti, Mantova, 1842-1844, voce Monumento, pp. 143-144; voce Galleria, pp. ulteriore traduzione italiana parziale a cura di Valeria Farinati e Georges Teyssot, Dizionario storico di architettura. Le voci teoriche, Marsilio, Venezia, 1985, p. 234.

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, L'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la législation, Paris, 1804; una seconda edizione postuma con l'aggiunta di altre tavole, a cura di Daniel Ramée, fu pubblicata nel 1847; rist. anast; in 2 voll. di entrambe le edizioni: Paris, 1961; rist. anast. dell'ed. 1804: Hildesheim, 1980, Nördlingen, 1981.

Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, Recueil et parallèle des édifices de tous genre, anciens et modernes, Paris, 1800 (ed. accresciuta a cura di J. g. Legrand: Raccolta e parallelo delle fabbriche classiche di tutti i tempi..., Venezia, 1833).

Paul Planat, Encyclopedie de l'architecture et de la construction, voll. V, parte 2ª, Aulanier et C.ie, Paris, 1889-92 . voce Musée vol. V, pp. 736-746 e Museum vol. V, pp. 746-753.

Julien Guadet , Elements et théorie de l'architecture , Paris 1901 - 04, u.e. 1929 - 30, vol. 2, capitolo VII, Les edifices d'instruction publique, pp. 327-379.

Daniele Donghi, Manuale dell'architetto, voll. 10, UTET, Torino, 1905-1935, vol.II, Parte I, Sez. V, pp. 1-208.

Luciano Semerani,, Dizionario, critico illustrato delle voci più utili all'architetto moderno, C.E.L.I., Faenza, 1993, voce Museo, pp. 114-125.

Nikolaus Pevsner, A History of building types, Washington D.C., 1976, ed italiana Storia e caratteri degli edifici, Palombi, Roma, 1986, pp.137-167.

Luca Basso-Peressut (a cura di), I luoghi del museo. Tipo e forma tra tradizione e innovazione, Arsenale, Roma, 1985.

Virgilio Vercelloni, Museo e comunicazione culturale, Jaka Book, Milano, 1994.

Patrizia Montini Zimolo, L'Architettura del Museo con scritti e progetti di Aldo Rossi, Città Studi Edizioni, Milano, 1995.

Frances A. Yates, L' arte della memoria, Einaudi, Torino, 1996.

Teaching methods

The course will be organized in two parts, the first of theoretical research. The second part will be the implementation of the concepts learned in the first, through a project.
The first part will hold a series of lectures and illustration examples. Lessons to be joined by regular meetings with individual students and some seminars on the collective progress of the work to which visiting professors will also participate. Bibliographies on specific topics, will be provided weekly. To the students in the early part of the course, will be asked to study architecture of a museum. They then will be ask to redesign parts through the use of plans, sections and elevations, to try to understand the hierarchical relationships existing between the ratio of public places and the museum itself. In the second part, the student must prepare a project on a specific area allocated for the museum display of an archaeological site.

Assessment methods

In order to be graded before the final exam, each student will have to develop a design theme pertaining to the specific proposed disciplinary workshop "Archaeology and architectural design", in the manner that will be illustrated during the lectures.
Will also be an integral part of the final evaluation exercises assigned by the teachers of the different disciplinary contributions.

Teaching tools

Digital projector, PC, overhead projector, studio space, printer and plotters A0 format.

Office hours

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