AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students will acquire the necessary reading tools to interpret the transformations and dynamics of the landscape - the ecological, social and economic processes underway, the underlying rules that have guided its evolution - and will develop the ability to reinterpret them, with creativity and foresight, as possible and unprecedented forms of coexistence between people and nature. 

TEACHING METHODS

The course consists of theoretical lectures, seminars and site visits to support the design exercise; the latter will be conducted by groups of two or more students and its progress will be evaluated in the form of discussions and reviews with the lecturer.

Students who have a valid certification of physical or learning disabilities on file with the University and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the teacher and with the Department of Architecture and Design's disability referent (https://architettura.unige.it/commissioni_e_referenti_dipartimento)

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course contents concern the tools needed to decipher the specificity of a place, to prefigure ecological and social processes capable of emphasising complexity and differences, to give shape to the empty spaces between buildings, parks, gardens, streets, squares, all those disused residual areas that, today, the environmental emergency requires us to rethink as new forms of naturalness, sociality, identity,

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

M. Corrado e A. Lambertini, Atlante delle nature urbane. Centouno voci per i paesaggi quotidiani, Editrice Compositori, 2011.

J. Gehl, Città per le persone, Maggioli Editore, Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN) 2017.

K. Lynch, L’immagine della città, (1960) Marsilio, Venezia 1964.

F. Manfredi, Linee nel paesaggio, Libria, 2021.

F. Mazzino, P. Burlando, Paesaggi ritrovati. Esperienze di architettura del paesaggio, The Plan, Bologna 2016.

V. McLeod, Dettagli di architettura del paesaggio, Logos, Modena 2008.

F. Zagari, Manuale di progettazione dei giardini, Mancosu, Roma 2009.

F. Zagari, Questo è paesaggio – 48 definizioni, Gruppo Mancosu editore 2006.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The examination will consist of a discussion of the design drawings. 

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Design drawings in uni A1 format (42.0 cm x 59.4 cm) with the following contents will be evaluated:

1 Context

2 Concept

3 Masterplan 1:1000

4 Planimetry 1:500

5 Plant Schemes (Abacus of botanical choices / cyclic and evolutionary variations)

6 Sections and profiles

7 Three-dimensional representations