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CODE 81031
ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/2024
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR ICAR/14
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 1° Semester
SECTIONING Questo insegnamento è diviso nelle seguenti frazioni:
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di:
    TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

    AIMS AND CONTENT

    AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

    Geometric cycle: 3 primary figures
    
    As stated in the inaugural treatise on the history of architecture, that of Vitruvius, the first of the notions that an architect must possess is geometry.
    
                Square, circle and triangle, with their own implicit complexities and variants, up to the subversive deformations of their own rules, will constitute the research field on which the first year students will take their first steps.
    
                In this way we intend to place a constraint that limits but at the same time opens the student's gaze through a specific lens. A common lens that selects infinite knowledge by means of a unique and objective parameter: the geometric one.
    
                Following the general premises of the course, all the activities in which the student will take part will have the figure of the square in the center. Through this device, a series of lessons and related exercises will lead the student to deal with notions of history, theory and design, at different scales and in its fundamental aspects, according to a calendar structured in subsequent workshops.
    
                The program of this academic year is therefore the end of a didactic cycle that was conducted over the next three years on the three primary figures, square-circle-triangle, the specific theme of each of the three courses.
    
                All the work done on the traingolo, and previously on the circle and the square, will be brought together assuming as a whole the unitary form of a single didactic action. This action aspires to an idea of ​​totality, albeit limited to the realm of geometry.

    TEACHING METHODS

    The course is held in the form of a laboratory, with constant revision of the project and theory lessons

    SYLLABUS/CONTENT

    I semester "An Introduction to the architectural project"
    
    1- Lesson: The triangle in architecture
    
    2- ES1. 15 triangular masterpieces / Lesson. Tools
    
    3- ES2. What is architecture? / Lesson. Definitions
    
    4. ES3. Iconography / Lesson. Culture of the project
    
    5. ES4. Genoa ad triangulum / Lesson. City and architecture
    
    6. ES5. Contemporary triangular architectures
    
    7. es5.1 The plant
    
    8. es5.2 The section
    
    9. es5.3 The model
    
    10. es5.4 The construction
    
    11. es5.5 The place
    
    12. es5.6 Space
    
    13. es5.7 The light
    
    
    
    
    
    II semester "The first project"
    
    + 44mslm A TRUIANGULAR PAVILION
    
    
    
    The site chosen for the first real architectural design experience is a well-known place. The school itself, in addition to being the place where didactic activities take place, is itself a didactic place. Eloquent episode of Italian architectural culture, and in particular Genoese, it is a place produced by successive stratifications relating to the eras that from the foundation of the city to today have deposited its shape and character. The story is particularly exemplary as the presence of architecture is not limited to a single era, ancient or modern, or to a single style, but encompasses the complexity of the city and its extraordinary capacity for transformation, never interrupted.
    
    In this perspective of a constantly open, constantly inadequate present, the school's reorganization project is related to the pre-existing implementations, up to those of Gardella and Grossi Bianchi, with the aim of giving a better response to current needs. Gardella's project, as can be deduced from the structure and as the author himself confirms in his words, was designed to be modified, even several times, in its internal organization. Furthermore, today, the theme of open spaces and unstructured didactic functions arise as strong reasons for a rethinking of the school at + 44m above sea level in which to place a new triangular-shaped pavilion.

    RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

    ESSENTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
    
    Livio Vacchini, Masterpieces, ed. Allemandi 2007
    
    Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Architecture as Experience, Pendragon 2006
    
    Ludovico Quaroni, Designing a building. Eight architecture lessons, Mazzotta, 1977.
    
    Bernard Rudofsky, Architecture Without Architects, University of New Mexico Press, 1976
    
    
    
    THEORY OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
    
    Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradictions in Architecture, 1966
    
    Aldo Rossi, Scientific autobiography, 1981
    
    Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1977
    
    Peter Zumthor, Thinking about architecture, Electa 2003
    
    Peter Zumthor, Atmospheres. Architectural environments. Things that surround us, Electa 2007
    
    Giò Ponti, Love architecture,
    
    Carlos Martí Arís, The variations of identity, ed clup city studies, 1993
    
    Carlos Martí Arís Eloquent Silences, ed Marinotti, 2002
    
    Luigi Snozzi, Aformi, in Electa
    
    Cristian Kerez, Uncertainity, tokyo 2014
    
    Valerio Olgiati, Non-referential Architecture, 2018
    
    Adolf Loos, My school of architecture, in «Words in the void», Adelphi, Milan 1972;
    
    Herman Hertzberger, Architecture lessons, Laterza, Rome, 1966.
    
    THERE. kahn, Talks with Students (1969), in Maria Bonaiti, «Architecture is. Louis I. Kahn, the writings », Electa, Milan, 2002.
    
    John Hejduk, Education of an architect: a point of view, Cooper Union, NY, 1971.
    
    Alejandro de la Sota, Palabras a los alumons de Arquitectura, in «SOTA», ed. Pronaos, Madrid, 1989.
    
    Giorgio Grassi, An opinion on the school, in «Domus» n.714, 1990;
    
    Alvaro Siza, On pedagogy, in «Siza. Writings of architecture», Skira, Milan, 1997;
    
    Rafael Moneo, The work of John Hejduk or the passion for teaching, in "The solitude of buildings. Issues around architecture ", Allemandi, Turin, 1999.
    
    Antonio Monestiroli, The Metope and the Triglyph. Nine architecture lessons, Laterza, Rome, 2002
    
    Francesco Venezia, 48 pages of taught architecture, Mendrisio Academy Press, Silvana ed., 2015
    
    Luigi Snozzi, Dialogue on the teaching of architecture, and Letters twenty-two, 2016
    
    
    
    ENCYCLOPEDY OF ARCHITECTURE, GARZANTI, 1996
    
    Ernst NEUFERT, Practical Encyclopedia for Designing and Building, hoepli, 2019
    
    Bearth Deplazes: CONSTRUCTING ARCHITECTURE, Birkhäuser Verlag 2013

    TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

    Exam Board

    GIOVANNI GALLI (President)

    CHRISTIANO LEPRATTI (President Substitute)

    DAVIDE SERVENTE (President Substitute)

    LESSONS

    LESSONS START

    as per academic calendar

    Class schedule

    The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

    EXAMS

    EXAM DESCRIPTION

    The exam will be individual.
    
    The student must show both theoretical knowledge, based on the lessons and the bibliography of the course, and practical knowledge, with respect to the work done in the preparatory and project exercises (carried out both in groups and individually).

    ASSESSMENT METHODS

    The oral exam will allow to verify the level of learning of the primary notions of architectural design