29508 - City and Landscape Representation (B)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module the student will be able to use drawing as a tool for investigation and knowledge of the landscape, the city and architecture in order to define the centrality of the relationship between analysis and design. In particular, the student will be able to use different representation techniques to analyze, know and describe the objects/subjects of his approach to the discipline of Architecture and Architectural Composition.

Course contents

The Progettazione Architettonica Laboratory I consists, in addition to the module/teaching characterizing Architecture and Architectural Composition I, a module/teaching of Caratteri Distributivi degli Edifici I and a module/teaching of Disegno della Città e del Paesaggio.

In the latter, the processes and tools of representation will be taken into account as acts that cannot be separated from the purpose of composition and design. This hypothesis finds confirmation and theoretical reason in the constant role that drawing has had in the work of the masters of the past, highlighting the centrality of the analysis/project relationship.

The student must consciously represent the forms of architecture, the city and the landscape and must be able to manage the tools that allow the manipulation of their perceptual, dimensional, proportional and compositional characteristics.

We will try, therefore, to make the student acquire a progressive manual ability in the use of the simplest and most direct graphic techniques through the exercise of freehand drawing, to the stroke, with particular attention to the chromatic aspects and to the perception/representation of color.

The papers must be understood as a series of "cornerstones" of the course including classroom and outdoor exercises. The student will have to record all these experiences in the form of notes and drawings on a notebook that must be kept constantly updated. The student, at the end of the module/teaching, must be in a position to observe, analyze, read and represent, with the appropriate methods and tools, the aspects characterizing the specific field of architecture, the city and the landscape themselves.

Readings/Bibliography

JOHN RUSKIN, Le pietre di Venezia, BUR, Milano, 1987

MARIO DOCCI, MARCO GAIANI, DIEGO MAESTRI. Scienza del disegno, Città studi Edizioni, Torino 2021

RICCARDO FALCINELLI, Cromorama. Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo, Giulio Einaudi Editore, Torino 2017

RICCARDO FALCINELLI, Figure. Come funzionano le immagini dal Rinascimento a Instagram, Torino 2017

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons on the general aspects of “live drawing", accompanied by examples of masters who have used this tool as a central factor of their practical and theoretical activity; lessons on the operational methodology of "freehand drawing" and therefore from life to be carried out both in the classroom and outside - en-plein-air - lessons on drawing for the architectural project. The "facts" studied will create an individual notebook - a real "travel diary", a "carnet" - which will collect observations and drawings of an entire year of study.

Assessment methods

The exam of the Progettazione Architettonica Laboratory I includes the verification of the learning of the contents of all the modules/teachings and takes place in a single exam.

The examination and verification of the learning of the teaching of Disegno della Città e del Paesaggio will take place, therefore, as part of the exam of the Progettazione Architettonica Laboratory I.

The judgment will depend to a large extent on the quality of the works submitted. The final exam also aims to verify the achievement of the educational objectives set by the integrated course, demonstrable by the student through the presentation of individual works, performed during the year and the presentation of the "notebook" containing the notes, surveys and exercises carried out in the classroom and outside.

Teaching tools

The lessons will take place with the use of graphic and photographic material presented in Power Point format; the teacher, using the document-camera and the SketchBook application supplied to the laboratories, will propose exemplary sessions of drawing and graphic representation to support the techniques addressed. During the lessons, texts and bibliographies on specific topics related to the discipline will be cited and reported.

Students use measuring instruments with regard to the survey of buildings and the related graphic restitution that will take place in the laboratories, a notebook and various types of graphite, colors (watercolors in particular) or inks with regard to freehand drawing.

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