LABORATORIO DI COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA 2 A - L

The course provides the student's preparation to the themes that deal with the architectural design as an essential component of urban regeneration "old towns" and the city.

It provides contemporary design in the consolidated city. The design simulation through interventions of small size and quantifiable, relevant daily living, work and mainly living.

A preliminary acquisition of elementary knowledge, experience and experiments matured in recent decades, will help to define a project conscious of the relationship between pre-existing and new, between the block and the neighborhood and the city; In which the new can become a measuring element of the context

have demonstrated knowledge and understanding that is founded upon and extends and/or enhances that typically associated with the first cycle, and that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in developing and/or applying ideas, often within a research context;

frontal lectures and classroom exercises on specific themes of the architectural project

the course offers an analytical study of some projects and works of architecture.
It allows you to understand the complex design process through the analysis of some "principles of composition"; principles understood as processes to assimilate and not to repeat such acts, as established design practices.

The student is thus initiated the study of some emblematic buildings, mainly of relevance disciplinary buildings for their historical-architectural nature, morphological, environmental and compositional and technical.

To this end they are required design processing which involve the realization of three-dimensional models study, of cardboard or similar material, of appropriate dimensions and scales; models are simulation or the translation of spatial invention.

 Ludovico Quaroni, Progettare un edificio: otto lezioni di architettura, Mazzotta, Milano 1977
 Francesco Cellini, Manualetto, Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento progettuale sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Città Studi Ed.,Torino 2000
 Umberto Cao, elementi della progettazione architettonica, Laterza, Bari 1995
 Franco Purini, Comporre l’architettura, Laterza, Bari 2000
 Kenneth Frampton, Tettonica e Architettura, Poetica nella forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo, SKIRA, Milano 1999
 Piero Ostilio Rossi, la costruzione del progetto architettonico, Laterza, Bari 1996

The teacher will also provide the several symbolic architectures documentary material and case studies.

The web can provide an immediate consultation of the assigned works.

Suggested reading

 Paul Valéry, Eupalino o dell’architettura, traduzione di Raffaele Contu, ed. biblioteca dell’immagine Pordenone 1986
 Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili, ed Einaudi, Torino
 Francesco Venezia, La Torre d’Ombre, o l’architettura delle apparenze reali, Arsenale editrice, Venezia 1988

 John Summerson , Il linguaggio classico dell’architettura, Einaudi, Torino
 Carlo Petrini, Buono pulito e giusto. Principi di una nuova gastronomia. Gli Struzzi Einaudi 2005

 Paolo Tiralongo, Pietra su Pietra, architettura in pietra a secco degli iblei, EdiArgo 2016 .

 Ausplund a book by Claes Caldenby & Olof Hultin . printed 1985 ed. Stockolm Arkitektur Forlag in Association with Gingko Press