LABORATORIO DI PROGETTO 1 A - L

Learning Objectives

• ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN

  The course aims to offer students the main cultural and technical tools necessary for architectural and urban design.

• FONDAMENTI DI RAPPRESENTAZIONE

  The Representation module in Project Laboratory 1 aims to make the student aware of the potentials underlying the graphic medium for analysis, prefiguration and communication of architecture, enabling him to explore extensively the techniques and modes of the architectural drawing. Continuous and constant exercise is the only way to reach this goal and for this reason a total immersion condition is expected in the graphic practice. Work will be carried out in strict accordance with the Design module of the same laboratory.
  
  

Detailed Course Content

• ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN

  The course is divided into a series of lessons and exercises that develop five main topics:

  a. Writing, analogy and semiology processes.
  b. Classical architecture syntax / The transition from classical and modern code .
  c. Elements of modern syntax - composition by fragments: decomposition and composition of planes (neoplasticism), assembly of volumes (rationalism / constructivism), the concept of free plan.
  d. The space of the modern city: space definer and space occupainer; urban space from the nineteenth-century city to modernity and modern urban theories.
  e. Elements of contemporary design: 1. the machine and the post-foundational phase of modernity in the 1960s; 2. Subtraction languages ​​- concept of semantic emptying of the object (Eisenman); 3. Addition languages - from Pop Art to Postmodern (Venturi); 4. Louis Kahn; 5. deconstruction and transarchitecture.

• FONDAMENTI DI RAPPRESENTAZIONE

  The training objectives of the Fundamentals of Representation form are:

  - make the student able to use the drawing tools correctly;

  - make the student able to handle the main geometric constructions and draw complex geometric patterns;

  - make the student able to represent architecture in plan, prospectus, sections;

  - make the student able to design objects and complex architecture in perspective;

  - make the student able to draw in the three normalized assonometries;

  - make the student able to recognize and draw the main harmonic and remarkable relationships;

  - analyze the architecture with the use of the drawing.

Textbook Information

• ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN

  Specific bibliographies are given in each lesson. The main reference texts are:

  Documents

  1. Vitruvio, DE ARCHITECTURA, Roma 1990
  2. Leon Battista Alberti, L’ARCHITETTURA, Milano 1989
  3. Andrea Palladio, I QUATTRO LIBRI DELL’ARCHITETTURA, Milano 1979
  4. Marc Antoine Laugier, SAGGIO SULL’ARCHITETTURA, Palermo 1987
  5. Jean Nicolas Durand, LEZIONI DI ARCHITETTURA, Milano 1986
  6. Camillo Sitte, L’ARTE DI COSTRUIRE LA CITTÀ , Milano 1982
  7. Bruno Taut, LA CORONA DELLA CITTÀ, Milano 1973
  8. Le Corbusier, VERSO UNA ARCHITETTURA, Milano 1979
  9. Robert Venturi, COMPLESSITÀ E CONTRADDIZIONI NELL’ARCHITETTURA, Bari 1980

  Art, analogy and semiology

  1. Giorgio Agamben, L’UOMO SENZA CONTENUTO, Macerata 1994
  2. Ernst Gombrich, ARTE E ILLUSIONE, Torino 1978
  3. Nelson Goodman, I LINGUAGGI DELL’ARTE, Milano 1976
  4. Enzo Melandri, LA LINEA E IL CIRCOLO. Studio logico-filosofico sull’analogia, Macerata 2004
  5. Umberto Eco, SEGNO, ISEDI - Milano 1978
  6. Roland Barthes, MITI D’OGGI, Torino 1978
  7. Gianni Rodari, GRAMMATICA DELLA FANTASIA, Torino 1973
  8. Bruno Munari, CODICE OVVIO, Torino 1971
  9. Raymond Queneau, ESERCIZI DI STILE, Einaudi - Torino

  Historical and critical texts

  1. Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz, STORIA DELL’ESTETICA - vol. 1 L’estetica antica, Torino 1979
  2. Rudolph Wittkower, PRINCIPI ARCHITETTONICI NELL’ETÀ DELL’UMANESIMO, Torino 1996
  3. Emil Kaufmann, TRE ARCHITETTI RIVOLUZIONARI, Milano 1979
  4. Emil Kaufmann, L’ARCHITETTURA DELL’ILLUMINISMO, Torino 1981
  5. Bruno Zevi, POETICA DELL’ARCHITETTURA NEOPLASTICA, Torino 1974
  6. Fabio Ghersi, EISENMAN 1960/1990 - DALL'ARCHITETTURA CONCETTUALE ALL'ARCHITETTURA TESTUALE, Palermo 2007
  7. Fabio Ghersi, SCRITTI SULLA MODERNITÀ, Reggio Calabria 2008
  8. Colin Rowe, THE MATHEMATICS OF THE IDEAL VILLA AND OTHER ESSAYS, Cambridge 1982
  9. Colin Rowe – Fred Koetter, COLLAGE CITY, Il saggiatore - Milano 1981
  10. Reyner Banham, LE TENTAZIONI DELL’ARCHITETTURA, Bari 1980
• FONDAMENTI DI RAPPRESENTAZIONE

  1) R. De Rubertis, Il disegno dell’architettura, Roma 2002.

  2) M. Docci, Manuale di disegno architettonico, Roma - Bari 1985.

  3) E. Dotto, Il disegno degli ovali armonici, Catania 2002.

  4) E. Dotto, Costruzioni geometriche. 60 esercizi di tracciamento con la riga ed il compasso, Siracusa 2007.

  5) E. Dotto, Introduzione all’analisi grafica. Una nota didattica, Siracusa 2008.

  6) E. Dotto, La sinagoga di Hurva di L. I. Kahn. Analisi grafica, Roma 2012.

  7) E. Panofsky, La prospettiva come forma simbolica, Milano 1988.

  8) L. Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di architettura, Milano 1977, in particolare la lezione sesta, La geometria dell’architettura, pp. 146-194.

  9) I. Stewart, Che forma ha un fiocco di neve?, Torino 2003 (What Shape is a Snowflake, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2001)

  10) V. Ugo, Fondamenti della rappresentazione architettonica, Bologna 1994.

  11) N. Meuser, Construction and Design Manual. Drawing for Architects, DOM Publishers, Berlin 2015.

  12) R. Florio, Sul Disegno- About Drawing, Officina, Roma 2012.