Programme

The course includes a series of lessons centered on the topic of collective housing, with particular reference to the experimentations proposed by architectural culture in Rome and Madrid from the beginning of the 20th century to more recent years. The lessons will tend to highlight the forms assumed by collective housing over the different periods and in the research of the protagonists of the architectural scene who have worked in these two cities, with a specific attention to the topic of urban form and the relation between dwelling and city.
The case of Rome assumes an emblematic value in this context. In fact Rome was a particularly fertile field of experimentation during the 20th century, in which the collective housing took on extreme and original forms ranging from the emphasis on domestic and individual scale in the Ina Casa neighborhoods, to monumental scale of the great projects of the Seventies in which the collective dimension prevails. But during the 20th century Rome was also a field of spontaneous practices of "colonization" of urban spaces, through which domestic elements infiltrated the ancient monuments of its huge territory. The ambiguity of the relations between domesticity and the material persistence of monuments, which the city itself has promoted in the course of its history, can be considered one of the specific characters of Roman dwelling, a consequence of practices that can be analyzed and codified as a source of inspiration for contemporary projects.
The long phase of experimentation on collective housing in Rome ended in the Eighties. Although the city continued to grow through the construction of residential units, there were no significant architectural researches (except for sporadic cases).
On the contrary, Madrid has been interested in the last decades by a ohase of rich experimentation on the topic of the collective housing, which has involved the local and international architectural culture in the design of whole urban areas. The practices promoted by the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y el Suelo (EMVS) through open competitions and invitations to international architects consolidated the role of the city as a laboratory of experimentation and reflection on the new forms of collective housing. The most well-known, and even the most controversial, outcomes, such as the Mirador building in Sanchinarro or the projects by Tom Mayne (Morphosis), David Chipperfiled, Wiel Arets or Ricardo Legorreta, appeared as elements of comparison and renewal for a research in which important local architects such as Amann, Cánovas and Maruri, Soto and Maroto, Espegel and Fisac, Burgos and Garrido, Blanca Lleó, Ábalos and Herreros, or Frechilla and Peláez, participated with significant contributions.
The Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos of Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid – ETSAM, also stood out for its research on this topic, in particular through the activities of the GIVCO Research Groups (Grupo de Investigación en Vivienda Colectiva) with Carmen Espegel as principal researcher and with the relevant participation of professors such as Andrés Cánovas and José María de Lapuerta, and NuTAC (Nuevas Técnicas Arquitectura Ciudad), with José María Ezquiaga as principal researcher and contributions of works directed by Sergio Martín Blas. The parallel relation between research and practice built by these and other professors in the field of contemporary collective housing makes it possible to identify Madrid, and the Departamento de Proyectos of ETSAM, as a partner of extraordinary interest in promoting student training in the housing project.

Core Documentation

M. Farina (a cura di), Studi sulla casa urbana. Sperimentazioni e temi di progetto, Gangemi, Roma 2009
A. Cánovas, C. Epegel, J. M. De Lapuerta, C. Martínez Arroyo, R. Penjeam, Vivienda Colectiva en España. 1992- 2015. TC cuadernos, Valencia, 2017
S. Martín Blas et al. (Editores). Holanda en Madrid: social housing and urban regeneration. Mairea libros, Madrid, 2014

Type of delivery of the course

The course offers an in-depth study on the theme of the urban collective house, with the aim of providing tools for reading and designing the living space and the city. The theme is addressed through the comparison between two cities, which offer an extraordinary repertoire of forms and practices of living: Rome and Madrid, particularly fertile fields of experimentation on living during the twentieth century and the last decades. The course includes a work of critical analysis and design experimentation starting from a series of examples selected in the two cities, representative of the different housing models created in modern and contemporary times. Students will choose a couple of examples from those proposed and will collect the graphic documentation in collaboration with colleagues from Madrid. The critical analysis of the cases involves the development of drawings and the construction of models that highlight: the urban fabric, the spatial and formal components, the sequence of thresholds and spatial gradations, the passage from the city to the house. The design experimentation will be aimed at the construction of an aggregative system that interprets the characteristic themes of the cases analyzed.

Attendance

Attendance is compulsory for 75% of the lesson hours

Type of evaluation

The final exam consists in the discussione of the analysis and design exercises on selected case studies.

Programme

The case of Rome assumes an emblematic value in this context. In fact Rome was a particularly fertile field of experimentation during the 20th century, in which the collective housing took on extreme and original forms ranging from the emphasis on domestic and individual scale in the Ina Casa neighborhoods, to monumental scale of the great projects of the Seventies in which the collective dimension prevails. But during the 20th century Rome was also a field of spontaneous practices of "colonization" of urban spaces, through which domestic elements infiltrated the ancient monuments of its huge territory. The ambiguity of the relations between domesticity and the material persistence of monuments, which the city itself has promoted in the course of its history, can be considered one of the specific characters of Roman dwelling, a consequence of practices that can be analyzed and codified as a source of inspiration for contemporary projects.
The long phase of experimentation on collective housing in Rome ended in the Eighties. Although the city continued to grow through the construction of residential units, there were no significant architectural researches (except for sporadic cases).
On the contrary, Madrid has been interested in the last decades by a ohase of rich experimentation on the topic of the collective housing, which has involved the local and international architectural culture in the design of whole urban areas. The practices promoted by the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y el Suelo (EMVS) through open competitions and invitations to international architects consolidated the role of the city as a laboratory of experimentation and reflection on the new forms of collective housing. The most well-known, and even the most controversial, outcomes, such as the Mirador building in Sanchinarro or the projects by Tom Mayne (Morphosis), David Chipperfiled, Wiel Arets or Ricardo Legorreta, appeared as elements of comparison and renewal for a research in which important local architects such as Amann, Cánovas and Maruri, Soto and Maroto, Espegel and Fisac, Burgos and Garrido, Blanca Lleó, Ábalos and Herreros, or Frechilla and Peláez, participated with significant contributions.
The Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos of Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid – ETSAM, also stood out for its research on this topic, in particular through the activities of the GIVCO Research Groups (Grupo de Investigación en Vivienda Colectiva) with Carmen Espegel as principal researcher and with the relevant participation of professors such as Andrés Cánovas and José María de Lapuerta, and NuTAC (Nuevas Técnicas Arquitectura Ciudad), with José María Ezquiaga as principal researcher and contributions of works directed by Sergio Martín Blas. The parallel relation between research and practice built by these and other professors in the field of contemporary collective housing makes it possible to identify Madrid, and the Departamento de Proyectos of ETSAM, as a partner of extraordinary interest in promoting student training in the housing project

Core Documentation

M. Farina (a cura di), Studi sulla casa urbana. Sperimentazioni e temi di progetto, Gangemi, Roma 2009
A. Cánovas, C. Epegel, J. M. De Lapuerta, C. Martínez Arroyo, R. Penjeam, Vivienda Colectiva en España. 1992- 2015. TC cuadernos, Valencia, 2017
S. Martín Blas et al. (Editores). Holanda en Madrid: social housing and urban regeneration. Mairea libros, Madrid, 2014

Type of delivery of the course

The course offers an in-depth study on the theme of the urban collective house, with the aim of providing tools for reading and designing the living space and the city. The theme is addressed through the comparison between two cities, which offer an extraordinary repertoire of forms and practices of living: Rome and Madrid, particularly fertile fields of experimentation on living during the twentieth century and the last decades. The course includes a work of critical analysis and design experimentation starting from a series of examples selected in the two cities, representative of the different housing models created in modern and contemporary times. Students will choose a couple of examples from those proposed and will collect the graphic documentation in collaboration with colleagues from Madrid. The critical analysis of the cases involves the development of drawings and the construction of models that highlight: the urban fabric, the spatial and formal components, the sequence of thresholds and spatial gradations, the passage from the city to the house. The design experimentation will be aimed at the construction of an aggregative system that interprets the characteristic themes of the cases analyzed.

Attendance

The course attendance is mandatory and student will need to have attended at least 75% of the activities in the classroom in order to be admitted to the exam.

Type of evaluation

The final exam consists in the discussion of the analysis and design exercises carried out on the selected case studies.

Programme

The course includes a series of lessons centered on the topic of collective housing, with particular reference to the experimentations proposed by architectural culture in Rome and Madrid from the beginning of the 20th century to more recent years. The lessons will tend to highlight the forms assumed by collective housing over the different periods and in the research of the protagonists of the architectural scene who have worked in these two cities, with a specific attention to the topic of urban form and the relation between dwelling and city.
The case of Rome assumes an emblematic value in this context. In fact Rome was a particularly fertile field of experimentation during the 20th century, in which the collective housing took on extreme and original forms ranging from the emphasis on domestic and individual scale in the Ina Casa neighborhoods, to monumental scale of the great projects of the Seventies in which the collective dimension prevails. But during the 20th century Rome was also a field of spontaneous practices of "colonization" of urban spaces, through which domestic elements infiltrated the ancient monuments of its huge territory. The ambiguity of the relations between domesticity and the material persistence of monuments, which the city itself has promoted in the course of its history, can be considered one of the specific characters of Roman dwelling, a consequence of practices that can be analyzed and codified as a source of inspiration for contemporary projects.
The long phase of experimentation on collective housing in Rome ended in the Eighties. Although the city continued to grow through the construction of residential units, there were no significant architectural researches (except for sporadic cases).
On the contrary, Madrid has been interested in the last decades by a ohase of rich experimentation on the topic of the collective housing, which has involved the local and international architectural culture in the design of whole urban areas. The practices promoted by the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y el Suelo (EMVS) through open competitions and invitations to international architects consolidated the role of the city as a laboratory of experimentation and reflection on the new forms of collective housing. The most well-known, and even the most controversial, outcomes, such as the Mirador building in Sanchinarro or the projects by Tom Mayne (Morphosis), David Chipperfiled, Wiel Arets or Ricardo Legorreta, appeared as elements of comparison and renewal for a research in which important local architects such as Amann, Cánovas and Maruri, Soto and Maroto, Espegel and Fisac, Burgos and Garrido, Blanca Lleó, Ábalos and Herreros, or Frechilla and Peláez, participated with significant contributions.
The Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos of Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid – ETSAM, also stood out for its research on this topic, in particular through the activities of the GIVCO Research Groups (Grupo de Investigación en Vivienda Colectiva) with Carmen Espegel as principal researcher and with the relevant participation of professors such as Andrés Cánovas and José María de Lapuerta, and NuTAC (Nuevas Técnicas Arquitectura Ciudad), with José María Ezquiaga as principal researcher and contributions of works directed by Sergio Martín Blas. The parallel relation between research and practice built by these and other professors in the field of contemporary collective housing makes it possible to identify Madrid, and the Departamento de Proyectos of ETSAM, as a partner of extraordinary interest in promoting student training in the housing project.

Core Documentation

AA. VV., L’INA-CASA al IV congresso Nazionale di Urbanistica, Società Grafica Romana, Roma 1953
L. Beretta Anguissola (a cura di), I 14 anni del Piano INACASA, Staderini, Roma 1963
R. Venturi, Complessità e contraddizioni nell’architettura, Dedalo, Roma 1966
L. Quaroni, Immagine di Roma, Laterza, Bari 1969
B. Regni, M. Sennato, Innocenzo Sabbatini: architetture tra tradizione e rinnovamento, Kappa, Roma 1982
A. Clementi, F. Perego (a cura di), La metropoli «spontanea». Il caso di Roma 1925-1981: sviluppo residenziale di una città dentro e fuori dal piano, Dedalo, Roma 1983
AA.VV., Case romane. La periferia e le case popolari, CLEAR, Roma 1984
C. Cocchioni, M. De Grassi, La casa popolare a Roma. Trent’anni di attività dell’I.C.P., Kappa, Roma 1984
AA.VV., L’attuazione dei piani di edilizia residenziale pubblica. Roma 1964-1987, Officina edizioni, Roma 1998
AA.VV. (a cura di), Guida ai quartieri romani INA Casa, Gangemi, Roma 2002
AA.VV., Abitare la periferia. L'esperienza della 167, Camera di Commercio, Roma 2007
M. Farina (a cura di), Studi sulla casa urbana. Sperimentazioni e temi di progetto, Gangemi, Roma 2009
M. Farina (a cura di), Housing conference. Ricerche emergenti sul tema dell'abitare, Gangemi, Roma 2009
M. Farina, L. Villani, Borgate romane. Storia e forma urbana, Libria, Melfi 2017

A. Cánovas, C. Epegel, J. M. De Lapuerta, C. Martínez Arroyo, R. Penjeam, Vivienda Colectiva en España Siglo XX (1929-1992). TC Cuadernos, Valencia, 2013.
A. Cánovas, C. Epegel, J. M. De Lapuerta, C. Martínez Arroyo, R. Penjeam, Vivienda Colectiva en España. 1992- 2015. TC cuadernos, Valencia, 2017.
S. Martín Blas et al. (Editores). Holanda en Madrid: social housing and urban regeneration. Mairea libros, Madrid, 2014.
S. Martín Blas, I. Rodríguez Martín. A pie de calle: vivienda social y regeneración urbana. Arcadia Mediática, Madrid, 2018.
S. Martín Blas, I. Rodríguez Martín, et al., I+D+VS: futuros de la vivienda social en 7 ciudades, Fundación Arquitectura COAM y Ministerio de Fomento (ISBN: 978-84-96656-74-1), 2011.
S. Martín Blas, I. Rodríguez Martín. Arquitecturas VIS: vivienda de interés social en seis ciudades iberoamericanas. Lampreave, Madrid, 2018.

Type of delivery of the course

The final exam consists in the discussione of the drawing analysis exercises on selected case studies.

Attendance

The course attendance is mandatory and student will need to have attended at least 75% of the activities in the classroom in order to be admitted to the exam.

Type of evaluation

Graphic and drawing analysis exercises are expected from students, with the same codes and format, so that they would be comparable, and reciprocal visits in different periods to promote an exchange between professors and students and a direct knowledge of the two cities.

Programme

The course includes a series of lessons centered on the topic of collective housing, with particular reference to the experimentations proposed by architectural culture in Rome and Madrid from the beginning of the 20th century to more recent years. The lessons will tend to highlight the forms assumed by collective housing over the different periods and in the research of the protagonists of the architectural scene who have worked in these two cities, with a specific attention to the topic of urban form and the relation between dwelling and city.
The case of Rome assumes an emblematic value in this context. In fact Rome was a particularly fertile field of experimentation during the 20th century, in which the collective housing took on extreme and original forms ranging from the emphasis on domestic and individual scale in the Ina Casa neighborhoods, to monumental scale of the great projects of the Seventies in which the collective dimension prevails. But during the 20th century Rome was also a field of spontaneous practices of "colonization" of urban spaces, through which domestic elements infiltrated the ancient monuments of its huge territory. The ambiguity of the relations between domesticity and the material persistence of monuments, which the city itself has promoted in the course of its history, can be considered one of the specific characters of Roman dwelling, a consequence of practices that can be analyzed and codified as a source of inspiration for contemporary projects.
The long phase of experimentation on collective housing in Rome ended in the Eighties. Although the city continued to grow through the construction of residential units, there were no significant architectural researches (except for sporadic cases).
On the contrary, Madrid has been interested in the last decades by a ohase of rich experimentation on the topic of the collective housing, which has involved the local and international architectural culture in the design of whole urban areas. The practices promoted by the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y el Suelo (EMVS) through open competitions and invitations to international architects consolidated the role of the city as a laboratory of experimentation and reflection on the new forms of collective housing. The most well-known, and even the most controversial, outcomes, such as the Mirador building in Sanchinarro or the projects by Tom Mayne (Morphosis), David Chipperfiled, Wiel Arets or Ricardo Legorreta, appeared as elements of comparison and renewal for a research in which important local architects such as Amann, Cánovas and Maruri, Soto and Maroto, Espegel and Fisac, Burgos and Garrido, Blanca Lleó, Ábalos and Herreros, or Frechilla and Peláez, participated with significant contributions.
The Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos of Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid – ETSAM, also stood out for its research on this topic, in particular through the activities of the GIVCO Research Groups (Grupo de Investigación en Vivienda Colectiva) with Carmen Espegel as principal researcher and with the relevant participation of professors such as Andrés Cánovas and José María de Lapuerta, and NuTAC (Nuevas Técnicas Arquitectura Ciudad), with José María Ezquiaga as principal researcher and contributions of works directed by Sergio Martín Blas. The parallel relation between research and practice built by these and other professors in the field of contemporary collective housing makes it possible to identify Madrid, and the Departamento de Proyectos of ETSAM, as a partner of extraordinary interest in promoting student training in the housing project.

Core Documentation

AA. VV., L’INA-CASA al IV congresso Nazionale di Urbanistica, Società Grafica Romana, Roma 1953
L. Beretta Anguissola (a cura di), I 14 anni del Piano INACASA, Staderini, Roma 1963
R. Venturi, Complessità e contraddizioni nell’architettura, Dedalo, Roma 1966
L. Quaroni, Immagine di Roma, Laterza, Bari 1969
B. Regni, M. Sennato, Innocenzo Sabbatini: architetture tra tradizione e rinnovamento, Kappa, Roma 1982
A. Clementi, F. Perego (a cura di), La metropoli «spontanea». Il caso di Roma 1925-1981: sviluppo residenziale di una città dentro e fuori dal piano, Dedalo, Roma 1983
AA.VV., Case romane. La periferia e le case popolari, CLEAR, Roma 1984
C. Cocchioni, M. De Grassi, La casa popolare a Roma. Trent’anni di attività dell’I.C.P., Kappa, Roma 1984
AA.VV., L’attuazione dei piani di edilizia residenziale pubblica. Roma 1964-1987, Officina edizioni, Roma 1998
AA.VV. (a cura di), Guida ai quartieri romani INA Casa, Gangemi, Roma 2002
AA.VV., Abitare la periferia. L'esperienza della 167, Camera di Commercio, Roma 2007
M. Farina (a cura di), Studi sulla casa urbana. Sperimentazioni e temi di progetto, Gangemi, Roma 2009
M. Farina (a cura di), Housing conference. Ricerche emergenti sul tema dell'abitare, Gangemi, Roma 2009
M. Farina, L. Villani, Borgate romane. Storia e forma urbana, Libria, Melfi 2017

A. Cánovas, C. Epegel, J. M. De Lapuerta, C. Martínez Arroyo, R. Penjeam, Vivienda Colectiva en España Siglo XX (1929-1992). TC Cuadernos, Valencia, 2013.
A. Cánovas, C. Epegel, J. M. De Lapuerta, C. Martínez Arroyo, R. Penjeam, Vivienda Colectiva en España. 1992- 2015. TC cuadernos, Valencia, 2017.
S. Martín Blas et al. (Editores). Holanda en Madrid: social housing and urban regeneration. Mairea libros, Madrid, 2014.
S. Martín Blas, I. Rodríguez Martín. A pie de calle: vivienda social y regeneración urbana. Arcadia Mediática, Madrid, 2018.
S. Martín Blas, I. Rodríguez Martín, et al., I+D+VS: futuros de la vivienda social en 7 ciudades, Fundación Arquitectura COAM y Ministerio de Fomento (ISBN: 978-84-96656-74-1), 2011.
S. Martín Blas, I. Rodríguez Martín. Arquitecturas VIS: vivienda de interés social en seis ciudades iberoamericanas. Lampreave, Madrid, 2018.

Type of delivery of the course

The final exam consists in the discussione of the drawing analysis exercises on selected case studies.

Attendance

The course attendance is mandatory and student will need to have attended at least 75% of the activities in the classroom in order to be admitted to the exam.

Type of evaluation

Graphic and drawing analysis exercises are expected from students, with the same codes and format, so that they would be comparable, and reciprocal visits in different periods to promote an exchange between professors and students and a direct knowledge of the two cities.