03869 - Architecture and Architectural Composition I (B)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student learns tecniques for project through some exercises, form the description to architectural survey and rapresentation of significant buildings which have characterized different moments of history, as a prelude to an individual architectural composition.

Course contents

The geaneral problems the course will face are related to architectural project in the historical city and specifically to ways the project defines itself dealing with places. So the project defines itself in a technical-pratical dimension which lead to the analysis of how during times and years answers have developed to specific questions, creating typical solutions and separating itself from the historical dimension because of the meanings which gradually have associated to the forms.

The workshop is facing the matter of the analysis and knowledge of the city, arranging them as studying of a real structure historically built and using iconographic material and  typological survey.

So the wondered city must be thought as the result of a project made along the time, as stratification of different intentions, in which every one doesn't nullify experiences carried out until that moment but, starting just from these last, it measures itself with what the local culture has just underlined, compares with solutions already provided to matters that the project has to face again and from which judges and chooses.

Elements and principles that constitutes the city and are settled down in it with stable (typical) characteristics, defines the object of the research.

The studying of a precise urban reality and the fine tuning of architectural project will constitute the final object of the students' theoretical and practical work.

Readings/Bibliography

AA.VV., La città di Padova, Officina, Roma 1970;

AA.VV., La città interrotta, Renoedizioni, Bologna 2010;

H. Focillon, Vita delle forme, Einaudi, Torino 1987;

G. Grassi, L'architettura come mestiere e altri scritti, F. Angeli, Milano 1980;

G. Grassi, I progetti, le opere e gli scritti, Electa, Milano 1996;

G. Grassi, La costruzione logica dell'architettura, Allemandi,Torino 1998 (1° ed. Marsilio, Padova 1967);

G. Grassi, Scritti scelti 1965-1999, F. Angeli, Milano 2000;

G. Grassi, Leon Battista Alberti e l'architettura romana, F. Angeli, Milano 2007;

L. Hilberseimer, GroszstadtArchitektur, L'architettura della grande città, Postfazione di G. Polesello, Clean, Napoli 1998; 

L. Hilberseimer, Un'idea di piano, a cura di G. Grassi, Marsilio, Venezia 1967;

L. Hilberseimer, Mies van der Rohe, Clup, Milano 1984;

A. Loos, Parole nel vuoto, Adelphi, Milano 1972;

J. Lord, Un ritratto di Giacometti, Nottetempo, Roma 2004;

C. Martì Arìs, Le variazioni dell'identità. Il tipo in architettura, Clup, Milano 1990;

M. Morini, Atlante di storia dell'urbanistica, Milano 1960;

A. Rossi, L'architettura della città, Clup, Milano 1978;

M. Savini, La fondazione architettonica della campagna. Uno studio sulla pianura bolognese, L'Artiere Edizionitalia, Bologna 1999;

H. Tessenow, Osservazioni elementari sul costruire, F. Angeli, Milano 1977;

J. Tricart, L'habitat rurale/l'habitat urbano, a cura di R. Bonicalzi e M.P. Iarossi, Unicopli, Milano 1998;

Further information will be provided during the year, according to the development of the work.

 

Teaching methods

The reflection about typologies in which the idea of living (thought in a wide meaning) has crystallized, corresponds to what already affirmed, because of the kind of necessity that fixed the constructive ideas, the relative fixedness that different typologies show also in variety and richness of particular solutions: they will be questioned in their relation with urban morphology; the main matters examined during lessons – which correspond to the main matters of analysing and projecting – will concern the relation between place and shape of settlement, morphological analysis, architectonic typology and the relation with the system of outline and free spaces, the relation shape-function, the typological rule and the logic of allotment, the relation shape-technical shape, the matter of decoration, ecc.

Assessment methods

The discussion about drawings and essays carried out will constitute the object of final exam.

Teaching tools

In order to have at disposal a didactic structure that allows the analytical work an appropriate deepening, it has been chosen uniqueness of theme and of field of application. Beyond lessons, the work will be developed by collective discussions which has to obtain an high level of participation and involvement of students; the analytical work will be organized for small groups of students.

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