The course aims to offer students the main cultural and technical tools necessary for architectural and urban design.
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.
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.
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.
Specific bibliographies are given in each lesson. The main reference texts are:
Documents
Art, analogy and semiology
Historical and critical texts
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.