18547 - Architecture and Architectural Composition III

Learning outcomes

By taking this subject students will acquire the following:

. the ability to express the design concept under the light of contemporary paradigms (in phylosophical, scientific, social and economic fields) and apply it to architecture, with particular focus on construction intended as the architectural system's dynamic of formation and evolution, aiming for a reconciliation between aspects of conception and realization;

. the ability to intend project as construction of an information-based system made of relations which provides opportunities, as well as the coupled ability to assess its implications and consequences (on the ecosystemic, social and aesthetic fields) within the paradigm of complexity.

. the capacity to articulate and organize the architectural design complexity in opportunity patterns able to support ranges of functional mappings

. the know-how to unfold such capacity through computation-based tools and techniques intended as a pervasive medium throughout the whole design process, from the initial exploration to realization, fostering a critical reflection on the relations that connect material systema, space, society and environment.

Course contents

Readings/Bibliography

Johnson, S. _ Emergence

Kelly, K. _ What technology wants, Viking

Weinstock, M. _ The Architecture of Emergence, Wiley Academy

Frazer, J. _ An Evolutionary Architecture, AA publications

Reiser, J., Umemoto, N. _ Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Princeton Architectural Press

Hensel, M. e Menges, A. _ Morpho-Ecologies, AA publications

Lynn, G. e Foster Gage, M. _ Composites, Surfaces and Software: High performance architecture

Banham, R. _ The Architecture of the Well Tempered Environmenthttp://crisisfronts.wikispaces.com/file/view/banham_WTE.pdf

Kwinter, S. _ Who's afraid of Formalism?

http://pia.sial.rmit.edu.au/materialpotency/docs/kwinter-foa.pdf http://www.davepigram.com/wiki/docs/kwinter-foa.pdf

Teaching methods

Assessment methods

Teaching tools

Links to further information

http://www.scoop.it/t/a3-unibo

Office hours

See the website of Alessio Erioli

See the website of Roberto Mingucci