LABORATORIO DI COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA 2 A - L

Academic Year 2025/2026 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Gianfranco GIANFRIDDO
Credit Value: 12
Scientific field: ICAR/14 - Architectural and urban design
Taught classes: 28 hours
Exercise: 26 hours
Laboratories: 90 hours
Term / Semester: One-year

Expected Learning Outcomes

Students will need to recognize and understand the relationship between home, urban fabric, and space in the city.

Course Structure

the lessons will be carried out with frontal teaching and laboratory exercises

Required Prerequisites

The student must have followed and taken the exam of the first year project laboratory.

Attendance of Lessons

The course must be attended as an obligation and attendance is certified by the students' signature.

Detailed Course Content

The course will be held with lectures on the topic of living, taking inspiration from the reading of selected texts and examples from the work of contemporary and non-contemporary architects, as well as by the teacher's research project work.
The Noto valley offers valuable insights for the proposed study. The basic operation of a small town and its close relationship with geographic factors, climate, territorial structure - made up of natural and artificial elements - as well as the economic and social conditions, simply and directly express the phenomena of the settlement process of the territory.

The lessons will interchange with design exercises, both individual and in group, contextualized in the Iblean territory.

Textbook Information

Le Corbusier, Towards a new architecture, Martino Fine Books, 2014

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The exam will be individual and will consist of an interview on the course topics and a discussion on the project exercises carried out during the year.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

questions on the topics covered during the course. Discussion on the project exercises carried out
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