Programme

The course aims to provide students with the foundations for a critical understanding of urban issues and to enable them to relate these issues to the role that design can play in developing possible solutions. The structure of the course and the topics addressed allow students to position their educational experience in dialogue with both architectural themes and urban studies, establishing possible connections and relationships and thereby developing an integrated overall perspective.

The course encourages an argumentative and critical approach to the issues of the contemporary urban condition through the study of practices, theoretical frameworks, and design experimentation. Students will be asked to work within different urban contexts. The course includes theoretical lectures, analyses and interpretations of urban contexts, and theoretical-practical exercises focused on the relationship between space and community in the contemporary city, taking housing as the main field of investigation.

Reference Bibliography

Arnaldo Bagnasco, Tracce di Comunita, | Mulino, 1999| Giorgio Piccinato, Un mondo di città, Comunità, 2002 Jane Jacobs, Vita e morte delle città, Comunità, 1998 GUST - Ghent urban studies team, The Urban Condition, 010 Rotterdam, 1999 Kees Christiaanse, Kees Christiaanse, 010 Rotterdam, Publishers, 1999 Gehl Architects, Towards a fine city for people: public spaces and public life - London 2004

Attendance

Mandatory attendance for at least 75% of the classes.

Type of evaluation

Assessment is carried out through an oral discussion with the instructor and the other students, based on the readings assigned during the course, aimed at highlighting the connections between the different concepts addressed.