21001990-1 - INTRODUCTORY PART

In the second semester, It consists in the didactic foundation of the design excercise teaching the principle of indissolubility between plan, teaching intentions, tectonics, subject and location.

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Programme

The course aims to make the student aware of the problem of architectural space, gradually building up the typological, structural and aesthetic connections that define its peculiar characteristics.
This process will be pursued through targeted lessons, readings of canonical examples and individual composition exercises that help to build a solid aesthetic awareness.

Core Documentation

B. Zevi, Saper vedere l'architettura. Saggio sull'interpretazione spaziale dell'architettura, Torino, Einaudi, 1953.
L. Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di Architettura, Milano, Mazzotta, 1977.
P.O. Rossi, La costruzione del progetto architettonico, Bari, Editori Laterza, 1996.
H.Hertzberger, Lezioni di architettura, Bari, Editori Laterza, 1996.
L. Altarelli et al., Forme della composizione, Roma, Kappa, 1997.
G. Ponti, Amate l’architettura, Genova, Vitali e Ghianda, 1957, (ristampa in commercio: Milano, CUSL, 2004).


Reference Bibliography

B. Zevi, Saper vedere l'architettura. Saggio sull'interpretazione spaziale dell'architettura, Torino, Einaudi, 1953. L. Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di Architettura, Milano, Mazzotta, 1977. P.O. Rossi, La costruzione del progetto architettonico, Bari, Editori Laterza, 1996. H.Hertzberger, Lezioni di architettura, Bari, Editori Laterza, 1996. L. Altarelli et al., Forme della composizione, Roma, Kappa, 1997. G. Ponti, Amate l’architettura, Genova, Vitali e Ghianda, 1957, (ristampa in commercio: Milano, CUSL, 2004). R. Moneo, Inquietudine teorica e strategia progettuale nell’opera di otto architetti contemporanei, Electa, Milano, 2005 M. Bonaiti, Architettura è. Louis I. Kahn, gli scritti, Electa, Milano, 2002

Type of delivery of the course

In the event of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions that regulate the methods of carrying out the teaching activities and student assessment will be implemented. In particular, the following methods will be applied: To take the exam remotely, the student must send 7 days before the exam date the images of his project, including the images of the three-dimensional model (Jpeg or Pdf format) in suitable resolution, to allow the commission to examine the documents. These documents will be uploaded to your personal folder in the Google Drive space of the Design laboratory, indicating the initials of surname and name and the word "exam" with the date of the appeal (YY, month, day) in the title of the files. The examination will be held by video conference on the Cisco WebEx Meetings platform, used in the course of the semester for classes and revisions, and the candidate will present and discuss their project with the commission, answering questions that this will address him.

Attendance

Attendance at the course is mandatory for 75%

Type of evaluation

In the event of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions that regulate the methods of carrying out the teaching activities and student assessment will be implemented. In particular, the following methods will be applied: The evaluation will refer to the technical and aesthetic quality of the architectural project, and to the candidate's ability to exhibit and interact with the commission's requests.

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Programme

This is the first part of an annual architectural design laboratory, in this first semester with 6 credits, 4 of architectural and urban composition and design and 2 of structures.

In the first half of the year, the commitment is 50 hours, dedicated to lectures, architectural visits and practical exercises of model building, drawing and design.
The course contents are proposed and verified through lectures, exercises, educational visits, individual and collective reviews. The final exam mark takes into account all the activities carried out by the student during the course, the quality of the exercises is obviously crucial in assigning the mark itself. All processing of the work is done by hand, the use of the C.A.d.

Exercises

1-Topography (Individual)
Exercise with level curves to be played by model, is assigned a building volume of date size that must be housed on the ground by creating a digging, or a podium by land reconditioning and making an access path. Scale 1: 250
Area of ​​intervention 75m x 50m, altitude 10m, making curves with cardboard from 1mm (4 curves per 1 meter of altitude) serve 40 curves to absorb the difference in height.
The volume to be inserted is a generic residential volume of 5 m for 10 m, which can be inserted as shown in the examples shown, inserting it into the ground, creating a podium, lifting it on a pilot,
or by adopting hybrid solutions.

2-Redesign and reconstruction of an architecture (group 3 people)
Analysis, technical drawing and realization of a scale model 1: 100 or 1:50 of the following residences:

Le Corbusier, Villa Sarabhai, Ahmedabad, India, 1951
Alvar Aalto_Villa Mairea, Pori, Finlandia, 1938-1939
Luis Barragán, Casa a Pedregal, Città del Messico, 1947-1950
Alfredo Lambertucci, Casa Lambertucci, Lanuvio, 1973-1976
Frank Lloyd Wright, Jacobs House, Madison, USA, 1937
Marcel Breuer, Hooper House, Baltimore, USA, 1959
Adalberto Libera, Villa Malaparte, Capri, 1938-1943
Adolf Loos, Casa Moller, Vienna, 1928
José Antonio Coderch, Casa Rozes, Alto Ampurdán, Spagna 1960-1962
Roland Rainer, Casa Bösch, Hietzing, Vienna 1968-70
Roland Rainer Casa Unter Alten Baümen, Vienna, 1965-1966
Ronald Rainer, Casa a St. Margarethen, Burgenland, Austria 1968-1969
Glenn Murcutt, Fredericks House, New South Wales, Australia 1981-2002
Edouardo Souto de Moura, Casa a Moledo, Portogallo 1990-1991
Louis Kahn, Esherick House, Philadelphia, USA, 1959-1961

3-Building System (Individual)
Project of a small hut, up to 20 sqm, everywhere students want, in a place well known to the designer, using a single constructive system between:
reinforced concrete, brick, stone, wood, steel. Scale model 1:50, plants and sections in scale 1:50

4-Sketches and relief from true anthropometric (individual during visits)
Draw on a drawing book A5 sketches of travel, prospects, plants, sections, portraits, and assonometries, paying particular attention to the proportions of the spaces and architectural elements represented. Booklet to be delivered.

Core Documentation

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

L. BENEVOLO, Introduzione all’architettura, Bari 1960

G. FANELLI, R. GARGIANI, Il principio del rivestimento, Bari 1994

K. FRAMPTON, Tettonica e architettura, Milano 2000

H. HERTZBERGER, Lessons for students in architecture, Rotterdam 1991

LE CORBUSIER, Verso un architettura, Milano 1973

LE CORBUSIER, Une petite maison, Reggio Calabria 2004

M. MANIERI ELIA, Architettura e mentalità dal Classico al Neoclassico, Bari 1989

L. MIES VAN DER ROHE, Gli scritti e le parole, Milano 2010

L. QUARONI, Progettare un edificio, otto lezioni di architettura, Roma 1977

B. RUDOFSKY, Architecture without architects, New York 1964

F. VENEZIA, Che cos’è l’architettura, Milano 2011

J. UTZON, Idee di architettura. Scritti e conversazioni, Milano 2011

P. ZUMTHOR, Pensare Architettura, Milano 2003

P. ZUMTHOR, Atmosfere. Ambienti architettonici. Le cose che ci circondano, Milano 2007

Handbooks

A. Desplazes, Constructing architecture, materials processes structures, a handbook, Basel, 2005
E. Neufert, Enciclopedia pratica per progettare e costruire,
F. Cellini, Manualetto, Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento di una esercitazione progettuale sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Palermo, 1991
A.Zimmermann, Constructing landscape : materials, techniques, structural components Basel, 2011

Type of delivery of the course

The laboratory takes place through lectures, exercises, collective and individual work reviews. In addition to the tenured professor, there are experts in the subject and doctoral students to follow the students' activities.

Attendance

Attendance at the course is mandatory for 75%

Type of evaluation

The work of the first semester of the laboratory is evaluated through the results of the exercises, during which the teachers analyze even if the theoretical contents presented to the students have been learned.

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Programme

The lessons will deal with the fundamental architectural topics: forms and compositional principles in art and architecture; compositional principles and spatial forms; architecture and place: settlement models; constructive systems and architectural figures; architecture and light; space, dimension and proportion.
The lessons will illustrate these themes also through a critical analysis of some works from the history of architecture, representing some archetypes and their evolution and hybridization.
Particular attention will be paid to the formation of the figurative culture needed to guide the design choices, so as to develop in the students the ability to manage the complexity of the project according to a conscious aesthetic and spatial thought.
The exercises proposed during the first semester will stimulate the student to immediately translate into design practice the theoretical notions acquired during the lessons.


Core Documentation

Bruno Zevi, Saper vedere l’architettura. Saggio sull’interpretazione spaziale dell’architettura, Einaudi, Torino 1948
Gio Ponti, Amate l’architettura. L’architettura è un cristallo, Rizzoli, Milano 2015 [1° ed. 1957]
Robert Venturi, Complessità e contraddizione nell’architettura, Dedalo, Roma 1980 [1° ed. Complexity and contradiction in architecture, 1966]
Gaston Bachelard, La poetica dello spazio, Dedalo, Bari 1975
Ludovico Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di architettura, Kappa, Roma 2001 [1° ed. 1977]
Franco Purini, L’architettura didattica, Gangemi, Reggio Calabria 1980
Christian Norberg-Schulz, Il significato nell'architettura occidentale, Electa, Milano 1994
Franco Purini, Comporre l’architettura, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2000
Iñaki Ábalos, Il buon abitare. Pensare le case della modernità, Cristian Marinotti Edizioni, Milano, 2009
Francesco Venezia, Che cos’è l’architettura. Lezioni, conferenze e un intervento, Electa, Milano 2011


Reference Bibliography

ARCHITECTURE HISTORY Rudolf Wittkover, Principi architettonici nell’età dell’Umanesimo, Einaudi, Torino 1984 Erwin Panofsky, La prospettiva come «forma simbolica», Abscondita, Milano 2013 (1° ed. Die Perspektive als «symbolische Form, 1927) Leonardo Benevolo, Introduzione all’architettura, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2001 [1° ed. 1960] Bruno Zevi, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Einaudi, Torino 2010 [1° ed. 1950] Leonardo Benevolo, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2003 [1° ed. 1960] Kenneth Frampton, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Zanichelli, 2008 [1° ed. Modern Architecture: a critical History 1980] Kenneth Frampton, Tettonica e architettura: poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo, Skira, Milano 1999 [1° ed. Studies in Tectonic Culture: the Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, 1995] MONOGRAPHIES OF ARCHITECTS Willy Boesiger (a cura di), Le Corbusier. Oeuvre complète, Birkhäuser, Basilea 1995 Karl Fleig (a cura di), Alvar Aalto. Opere architettoniche. Catalogo completo, Editions d’Architecture, Artemis, Zurigo, 1963 Heinz Ronner, Sharad Jhaveri, Louis Kahn Louis I. Kahn. Complete work 1935-1974, Birkhäuser, Basilea 1994 GUIDES OF ROME Ludovico Quaroni, Immagine di Roma, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1969 Piero Ostilio Rossi, Roma. Guida all’architettura moderna, 1909-2011, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012 [1° ed. 1984] Vittorio Vidotto, Roma contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006 [1° ed. 2001]

Type of delivery of the course

The first semester program is divided into a series of theoretical lessons and individual exercises aimed at acquiring the essential tools for addressing the architectural project in its complexity. In case of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions that regulate the methods of carrying out the teaching activities and student evaluation will be followed. In particular: The lessons and the exercises work will take place on the platform Teams.

Attendance

Attendance at the course is mandatory for 75%

Type of evaluation

At the end of the first semester, the skills acquired through the delivery of the materials produced for the exercises assigned and the reading of three books will be verified. As a result of the evaluation, the student will obtain a suitability or debt to be completed during the second semester. In case of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions that regulate the methods of carrying out the teaching activities and student evaluation will be followed. In particular: The final evaluation will take place on the platform Teams.