The purpose of the Studio is to guide the student to to understand and practice the urban and architectural design. The course aims to provide students with an operational methodology to tackle the urban and architectural design.. The aim of the course is that students acquire a project method capable of tackling different issues and topics. The urban contest is understood not so much and not only as a support on which to intervene but rather as a "place of relationships in which each part is not comprehensible if not in relation to a whole that is in turn integrated into a larger whole". These concepts will be developed trough lectures and design exercises. A final design essay will be the moment of synthesis and verification of the proposed Studio.
According to the Dublin Descriptors (DdD), passing the exam certifies the acquisition of the following results:
DdD 1 knowledge and understanding
DdD 2 ability to apply knowledge and understanding
DdD 3 (autonomy of judgment), 4 (communication skills) and 5 (learning ability)
The teaching will take place with ex cathedra lessons and with the development of an application project on a study area.
In the first semester we will proceed to a basic preparation on the fundamentals of the urban and architectural design through lessons and elementary exercises. In the following semester a final project will be elaborated which, starting from the hypotheses illustrated above, proposes a strategy, defines some scenarios, and the elements of a coherent conceptualization developing measured and technically controlled project actions. By strategy we mean the predisposition of some inter-related moves also belonging to different levels of reflection; by scenario we mean the formulation of hypotheses on future transformations and their possible consequences; by conceptualization we mean an effort of abstraction which, coming out from a logic of problem solving, evaluates the general implications of the issues addressed; project actions mean the representation on an appropriate scale of interventions that modify the physical state of the places. Strategy, scenarios, conceptualizations and actions are not to be understood as operations aligned within a deductive process: although it may be useful to question some possible scenarios before designing specific actions, the different operations maintain considerable independence, while evaluating the relationships established between the various operations and hypotheses; each of them requires to choose within different types of descriptions and surveys, within different forms of representation and the use of different scales: as a whole these operations constitute the urban and architectural design.
Essential Bibliography
Analytical Bibliography
Matter/Things/Assemblage
BENNET Jane, Vibrant Matter, Duke University Press, Durham and London 2010
CACHE Bernard, Earth Moves, The MIT Press, Cambridge 1995
COLOMINA, B., WIGLEY, M., Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design, Lars Müller Publishers, Zürich 2019
DE LANDA Manuel, Mille anni di storia non lineare.Rocce, germi e parole, Instar libri, Torino 2003
DE LANDA Manuel, Assemblage Theory, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2016
DELEUZE Gilles, GUATTARI Felix, Millepiani. Capitalismo e schizofrenia, Castelvecchi, Roma 2006
DE SOLà-MORALES Manuel, A Matter of Things, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2008
DIAMOND Jared, Armi, acciaio e malattie. Beve storia del mondo negli ultimi tredicimila anni, Einaudi, Torino 2014
HARAWAY Donna, CHTHULUCENE. Sopravvivere su un pianeta infetto, Produzioni Nero, Roma 2019
GUATTARI Felix, Le tre ecologie, Edizioni Sonda, Casale Monferrato 2013 (1991)
LATOUR Bruno, Non siamo mai stati moderni, Eleuthera, Milano 1995
LATOUR Bruno with LECLERCQ Christophe (edited by), Reset Modernity!, The MIT Press, Cambridge 2016
MORTON Timothy, IPEROGGETTI. Filosofia ed ecologia dopo la fine del mondo, Produzioni Nero, Roma 2018
MORTON Timothy, Noi, esseri ecologici, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2018
MORTON Timothy, Dark ecology. For a Logic of Future Coexistence, Columbia University Press, New York 2016
Convivialità/Beni Comuni
ATELIER BOW-WOO, Architectural Ethnography, SternbergPress, Berlin 2017
ILLICH Ivan, La convivialità, red!, Milano 2005
ILLICH Ivan, Genere. Per una critica storica dell’uguaglianza, Neri Pozza Editore, Vicenza 2013
ILLICH Ivan, elogio della bicicletta, Bollati Boringhieri Editore, Torino 2006
TSUKAMOTO Yoshiharu, KAIJIMA Momoyo, Atelier Bow-wow: Behaviorology, Rizzoli International Publisher, New York 2016
Boschi/Agricoltura/Ecosistemi/Desertificazione
BRYANT LOGAN William, Oak: The Frame of Civilization, W W Norton & Co Inc; Reprint edizione (25 agosto 2006)
LAUREANO Pietro, La Piramide rovesciata. Il modello dell’oasi per il pianeta Terra, Bollati Boringhieri Editore, Torino 2013
SCHAMA Simon, Landscape and Memory, Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York 1995
SERENI Emilio, Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano, Laterza, Bari 1961
THOREAU Henry David, Walden: vita nel bosco, Feltrinelli, Milano 2014
VANDERGOOT Jana, Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic. A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism, Taylor&Francis, New York 2017
Caltagirone e il Bosco di Santo Pietro
AA.VV. Caltagirone, Sellerio, Palermo 1977
AA.VV., Le Querce da sughero della R.N.O.”Bosco di Santo Pietro”. Bio-ecologia, economia e produzione, Fondo Siciliano per la Natura, Catania 2006
AA.VV., I Boschi di Santo Pietro. Caltagirone, W.W.F., Caltanisetta 1989
CAMILLERI Andrea, Privo di titolo, Sellerio, Palermo 2005
COLOMBA Giuseppe, Mussolinia. La saga delle beffe, Bonfirraro,Editore, Enna 2011