12053 - Landscape Architecture (A)

Learning outcomes

The course aims at knowing how to understand the landscape as a complex entity, by recognizing the single elements, the components, the relationships between them and the deriving system. The student will be led to take on the landscape not as an inert background for architecture, but as a "construction", a formal structure that supports and organizes the architectural project.

Course contents

Inside a landscape reality that has been tested, in the last decades, by a vertiginous real estate growth that keeps on devouring enormous stretches of rural soil and naturalistic value, the architectural project will have to always take more charge for the effects that every planning choice, even the most discrete one, will entail on the landscape. In order for that to happen, the landscape as a complex architecture inherited from the centuries, i.e. as a great expression of tradition, will necessarily have to be seen by the architect as a priority in his project, as a means to prevent - on the one hand - the risks of a project drift that tends to self-referentiality and - on the other - the risks of protracting a false dichotomy between town and country, between architecture and nature; to find again their common root that truly defines the identity of a place. The same that puts together the words “culture” and “cultivation”.

Readings/Bibliography

For further references please see the bibliography listed by holders of the integrated courses "Architectural Composition II" (A) and (B), of "Lab-based Course on Architectural Design IV". It is also recommended to read the following books respectively:

 

In relation to "Architectural Composition II (A)":

• Aa. Vv., Paesaggio: immagine e realtà, Electa, Milano 1981

• Mario Ortolani, La casa rurale nella pianura emiliana, CNR, Firenze, 1953

• Franca Varignana (a c. di), I disegni: II, Mappe agricole e urbane del territorio bolognese dei secoli XVII e XVIII, Alfa, Bologna 1974. Is part of "Le collezioni d’arte della Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna"

More specific bibliographic references will be provided during the course.

 

In relation to "Architectural Composition II (B)":

• Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, L’architettura del paesaggio, Edizioni di Comunità, Milano 1969

• Carlo Tosco, Petrarca: paesaggi, città, architettura, Quodlibet, Macerata 2011

• Lotus internazionale n. 30. Parchi urbani, Milano 1981/I

More specific bibliographic references will be provided during the course.

Teaching methods

According to the definition of the integrated course of "Architectural Composition II" with reference to the cultural context of intervention and to the project methodologies to be preferred, the course contributes in the laboratory activity by analysing, as a project substratum, the formal structure of the landscaping context; the works of a few contemporary masters and architects will be used as analogical references.

Assessment methods

In order to integrate the boards of the design exercise, a thematic board will also be requested. The final mark will also depend on the discussion -with reference to the bibliographyof- the general subjects that have been presented during the course well as specific subjects emerged during the reviews.

 

 

Teaching tools

Video projector will be used for ex cathedra lessons. Digital tools or paper supplies could eventually be provided, if needed, to take the design exercise.

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Licitra

See the website of Fabian Carlos Giusta