Chiusura generale dei locali della SDS di Siracusa - Venerdì 2 maggio 2025
Si comunica che venerdì 2 maggio i locali della SDS rimarranno chiusi, come da disposizione d'Ateneo.
Si comunica che venerdì 2 maggio i locali della SDS rimarranno chiusi, come da disposizione d'Ateneo.
The course will be introduced by some communications on the representation systems and on the technical, construction and graphic standards of the residence project. The proposed exercises are of two different orders: study exercises of a known architectural work, a single-family house, and composition exercises.
In particular, 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.
MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY
Vitruvio, De Architectura
Le Corbusier, Verso un’architettura
Robert Venturi, Complessità e contraddizioni nell’architettura
ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Specific bibliographies are given in each lesson. The main reference texts are:
Documents
Art, analogy and semiology
Historical and critical texts
The exam consists in the discussion of the requested project, represented according to the contents and the detailed papers in the exam program that will be provided to the students. This discussion will refer to the contents analyzed during the lectures and exercises for both the architectural composition and the architectural design.
Students are therefore required to have knowledge of the topics covered in the lessons and detailed in the exam program and will have to submit to the exam all the documents developed for architectural drawing and architectural design.