THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
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- Academic year
- 2019/2020
- Teacher
- MARCO MULAZZANI
- Credits
- 9
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
Training objectives
- Modules: Distribution Characteristics of Buildings (40 hours), Typological and Morphological Characteristics of Architecture (30 hours): Architecture teacher Saverio Pisaniello); Fundamental of History of contemporary architecture (20 hours): prof. Marco Mulazzani)
Knowledge.
The 3 Modules offer complementary conceptual references concerning the knowledge of the conceptual foundations, the organisation of the buildings in plan and in the elevations.
The module of Distributive characteristics and typology of buildings takes as its educational horizon the fundamentals of architectural design culture and in particular the sizing, layout, configuration of inhabited spaces, as well as the mutual relationship that determines the structure of the physical context. social and technical to which they belong.
The module of Typological and Morphological Characteristics of Architecture aims to train students in knowledge of architecture through the experience of project formalization techniques in relation to the place in a broad sense, to the city, to the landscape.
The module fundamentals of history of contemporary architecture aims to provide useful tools to introduce students to the history of Architecture, from the beginning of the Twentieth Century to the present day, on the International scene and through the work of the main masters. The method offers a comparative analysis of major works, crossing the points of view of spatial composition, structural and formal, with attention to the dominant themes in different historical periods.
Skills.
At the end of the course, students will have to know the basic notions related to the types of buildings, their recognisability and their potential Distribution and morphological organisation.
The expected skills also concern the acquisition by the students of the ability to read and understand the design logic of individual factories, and their relationship with the dominant themes in different historical periods. Prerequisites
- No one
Course programme
- DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF BUILDINGS MODULE
Through the comparison between different cultural positions of the contemporary architectural debate and the deepening of the concepts of urban morphology and building typology the module intends to promote a specific continuity with the tradition in the teaching of architecture.
The course reflects in particular on the practical and theoretical ways in which the knowledge of architectural works, carried out or simply designed, is conveyed:
- under the theoretical and methodological profile, the role assumed in the history and criticism of architecture by the terms "type" and "character" and by the concepts that have been mobilized to accredit or to refute their centrality in the modern and contemporary architectural debate;
- from a practical and instrumental point of view, the knowledge of some specific representative forms (the "diagram" and the "model") and their evolution as essential technical requirements for understanding the formal, cultural and technical properties of buildings.
In this perspective the course assumes the ways in which the architectural space is dimensioned, divided and distributed, as logical operators to dedicate specific exercises in design knowledge.
Exemplary cases of the modern and contemporary European city will be examined.
TYPOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ARCHITECTURE MODULE
The module deals with the typological and morphological characteristics of architecture in the framework of the architectural debate, from modern to contemporary. A vast subject of study in which theoretical and practical elaboration intertwine with different ways of understanding architecture, of studying it and making it transmissible.
Particular critical attention will be devoted to the role and function of the "composition" in the organization of the conceptual material from which, through actions of memory and invention, the processes of construction of the idea and the form of the void in the architectural project take shape.
The module develops on a dual horizon of contents: on the one hand it is configured as a first approach to the direct experimentation of the processes of composition and construction of space and of the elements of architecture, of the house of man in a broad sense, moreover it tries to codify ways and interpretative procedures useful to recognize the identity and character of the built with respect to the dynamics of transformation of the city and the landscape.
They will remain:
The urban evolution of Ferrara.
Urban planning according to its artistic foundations by Camillo Sitte.
Kevin Lynch's perceptive approach.
FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
Frank Lloyd Wright and the invention of space: from the "prairie houses" to California; from the "living city" of Broadacre City to the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Le Corbusier between architecture and urban planning: from the beginnings at La Chaux de Fonds to the Algiers Plan; from the Unité d'habitation in Marseille to the Capitol of Chandigarh.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the "art of building": from Germany in the 1920s and 1930s to works in America.
The naturalness and monumentality of architecture in modernity: Alvar Aalto and Louis Kahn.
Against every "ism" of architecture: Frank O. Gehry and Zaha Hadid. Didactic methods
- The course is divided into: individual autonomous preparation (bibliography study); lessons; individual oral test in addition to the development of a visual and textual exercise in common between the two modules having as field of investigation the city of Ferrara in its historical and modern and contemporary fabric.
It proposes a single practical exercise that will lead to the creation of a video lasting between 3 and 5 minutes maximum that will analyze parts of the city of Ferrara previously agreed with the teacher.
The work will be carried out in a group of at least 3 and maximum 5 students.
The module Fundamentals of History of contemporary architecture consists of ex cathedra lessons on each of the topics listed in the program. No contemplated collective exercises; individual signs for the deepening of the study program can be provided during the hours devoted to the students reception. Learning assessment procedures
- The access to the exam and an assessment of the work performed by the student are closely related to attending classes and actively participating in the exercises.
The individual final exam consists of an oral test of the 3 integrated courses. Reference texts
- ESSENZIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aldo Rossi, L’architettura della città, Clup, Milan 1966; Camillo Sitte, L’arte di costruire le città, Jaca Book, Milan, 2015;
Kevin Lynch, L’immagine della città, Marsilio, Venice 2006.
Regarding Fundamental of History of contemporary architecture:
Manfredo Tafuri, Francesco Dal Co, Architettura contemporanea, Electa, Milan 1976.
In addition, they are useful lecture notes.
A supplementary bibliography needed to deal with the deepening of the individual topics covered in the module will be provided at the beginning of the course.
