29508 - City and Landscape Representation (B)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module the student will be able to approach the drawing, applying different techniques of representation, as a tool for investigation, knowledge, restitution and / or design of the architecture of the city and landscape.

Course contents

The Laboratorio di Progettazione Architettonica I consists, in addition to the module/teaching characterizing Architettura and Composizione Architettonica 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 consideration as acts that cannot be separated from the purpose of architectural design. This perspective finds confirmation and theoretical reason in the constant role that drawing has had in the work of the masters of the past, and not only, highlighting the centrality of the analysis/project relationship.

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

The works / exercises must be understood as a series of "thresholds" of the path recorded, in the form of notes and drawings, on a notebook that must be kept constantly updated; At the end of the module/course, the student must be able to observe, analyze, read and represent, with the appropriate methods and tools, the aspects characterizing the specific field of architecture, city and landscape itself.

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

Lectures on the general aspects of "drawing from life", 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.

Assessment methods

The exam of the Laboratorio di Progettazione Architettonica I includes the verification of the learning of the contents of all the modules/courses and takes place in a single exam test.

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

The judgment will depend to a large extent on the quality of the works presented. 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 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 relative 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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