The purpose of the workshop is the design of a house. It will be emphasized the attention to the site and to its characters, to the language, to the typological characters. The design will provide housing building , one family building and social housing. The workshop will be broken down into two periods. : during the first half-year every student will study an architect, and a house of his. During the second half-year they , individually, or in small groups, will conclude the final design of the dwelling,
Course Content - Part A
The laboratory aims to define and carry out a contextualised architecture project
working so that the student manages to critically define the different planning stages
with sufficient degrees of specialisation, attempting to establish the correct relations
among distribu-tive-functional organisation, technical building and installations
requirements and formal conception and relations with the context.
The six-month exercise consists in the elaboration of an architecture project.
Course Content - Part B
In the conviction of the profound epochal crisis that civilization is facing (and with it architecture, which represents it), the Laboratory intends to develop the hypothesis of a possible, long, building standstill in future which could trigger off the need for architects (brought up until now – as in the fable about the apprentice witch - on the seductive myths of modern architecture, archi-stars and mythical illustrative journals) to professionally focus on the existing building heritage’s ma
• MURATORI S.(1963), Architettura e civiltà in crisi, Centro Studi Storia Urbanistica, Roma.
• MURATORI S., Civiltà e territorio (1967), Centro Studi di Storia Urbanistica, Roma; 1 v. testo; 2 v., allegati: programmi e schemi sinottici dei corsi 1965-66 e 1966-67.
• VAGNETTI L. (1973), L’architetto nella storia di Occidente, Teorema, Firenze.
• CANIGGIA G. (1976), Strutture dello spazio antropico. Studi e note, 1a ed: Uniedit, Firenze -2a ed: Alinea, Firenze, 1985.
• CATALDI G. (1977), Per una scienza del territorio. Studi e note, Uniedit, Firenze.
• CANIGGIA G., MAFFEI G.L. (1979), Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia. I: Lettura dell'edilizia di base, Marsilio, Venezia.
• CHIAPPI C., VILLA G. (1979), Tipo, progetto, composizione architettonica, 1a ed: Uniedit, Firenze, 1979 - 2a ed: Alinea, Firenze, 1982.
• CATALDI G. (1981), Lezioni di Architettura. Appunti dalle lezioni di Composizione Architettonica, Alinea, Firenze.
• CANIGGIA G., MAFFEI G.L. (1984), Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia. 2. Il progetto nell'edilizia di base, Marsilio, Venezia.
• CATALDI G. (a cura di) (1986), All'origine dell'abitare, Numero monografico di "Studi e Documenti di Architettura", catalogo della mostra itinerante, n.13.
• CATALDI G., FORMICHI F. (2005), Pienza Forma Urbis, Aión Edizioni, Firenze.
• ANDERSON S. (2012), voce Morfologia Urbana, Enciclopedia Treccani, pp. 79-87.
• Iñaki Ábalos, “Il buon abitare. Pensare le case della modernità.”, Christian Marinotti Edizioni.
• Antonino Saggio, “Architettura e modernità. dal bauhaus alla rivoluzione informatica”. Carocci.
• Ludovico Quaroni, “Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di architettura”. Kappa.
• Adolf Loos, “Parole nel Vuoto”. Adelphi.
• Eleonora Mantese, “Abitare con. Ricercario per un'idea collettiva dell'abitare.” Canova.
• Francesco Cacciatore, “Il muro come contenitore di luoghi. Forme strutturali cave nell'opera di Louis Kahn”. LetteraVentidue.
• J.G. Ballard, “Il Condominio”. Feltrinelli.
• Maurizio Vitta, “Dell'Abitare”. Einaudi.
• C. Norberg-Schulz, "L 'Abitare - L 'insediamento, lo spazio urbano, la casa.” Electa.
• A. Cornoldi, "L 'architettura dei luoghi domestici." Jaca Book.
• B. Taut, "Costruire: la nuova edilizia abitativa." Zanichelli.
• A. Branzi, "Modernità debole e diffusa ", Skira.
• F. Purini, “Comporre l’Architettura.” Laterza.
• F. Purini, “Sette tipi di semplicità in Architettura”. Libria.
• W. Blaser, “Mies van der Rohe.” Zanichelli.
• F. Neumeyer, Mies van der Rohe. Le architetture e gli scritti.” Skira.
• M. Castringnao, "La città degli individui - Tra crisi ed evoluzione del legame sociale." Franco Angeli.
• R. Pommer, C. F. Otto, “Weissenhof 1927 and the Modern Movement in Architecture”. University of Chicago Press.
• L. Monica, “Gallaratese Corviale Zen. I confini della città moderna disegni di progetto degli studi Aymonino, Fiorentino, Gregotti.” Festival Architettura.
• Ray Bradbury, “Farenheit 451”, Oscar Mondadori.
• George Orwell, “1984”, Oscar Mondadori.
• Carlos Marti Aris, “Silenzi Eloquenti”, Christian Marinotti Edizioni.
MOVIES
• “Metropolis”, Fritz Lang, 1927.
• “La fonte meravigliosa”, King Vidor, 1949.
• “Tokyo Monogatari (Viaggio a Tokio)”, Yasujiro Ozu, 1953.
• “La Notte”, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961
• “L’eclisse”, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962.
• “8 e mezzo”, Federico Fellini, 1963.
• “Play Time”, Jacque Tati, 1967.
• “2001. Odissea nello spazio”, Stanley Kubrick, 1968.
• “Stereo”, David Cronenberg, 1979.
• “Arancia Meccanica”, Stanley Kubrick, 1971.
• “L’uomo che fuggì dal futuro (THX 1138)”, George Lucas, 1971.
• “Professione reporter”, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975.
• “Stalker” Andrej Tarkovskij, 1979.
• “Shining” Stanley Kubrick, 1980.
• “Blade Runner”, Ridley Scott, 1982.
• “Camera con vista”, James Ivory, 1987.
• “Il Ventre dell’Architetto”, Peter Greenway, 1987.
• “Full Metal Jacket”, Stanley Kubrick, 1987.
• “Tokio Decadence”, Ryu Murakami, 1992.
• “Racconti del cuscino”, Peter Greenway, 1996.
• “Crash” David Cronenberg, 1996.
• “Gattaca”, Andrew Niccol, 1997.
• “Eyes Wide Shut”, Stanley Kubrick, 1999.
• “The Architect”, Matt Tauber, 2006.
• “Inception”, Christopher Nolan, 2010.
Learning Objectives - Part B
The Laboratory’s objective is the search – through reading – for a new planning approach, intended to include the town and territory’s historical formation and transformation processes. The ultimate aim is to train future architects to meet – with new mental weapons – the major challenge of upgrading the architecturally deteriorated urban peripheries.
Learning Objectives - Part C
The workshop will address the housing theme as a significant example of architecture. In housing every experience of architecture is fulfilled. Through the study of some significant examples from different eras, we will create a critical awareness towards the project, to be able to use the results as the foundation of all subsequent work.
The projects will form a city, an unusual forma urbis through which to explore the ancient and contemporary dynamics of the relationship.
Prerequisites - Part B
The persons registered must have sat the architectural planning Laboratory’s 4th-year examination.
Teaching Methods - Part A
Permanent workshop with lecture
Teaching Methods - Part B
The teaching method is typological originating from Saverio Muratori’s teaching, based on a critical leaning process, which contemplates the progressive checking mechanisms on the various scales between the reading and plan’s dialectic moments.
Teaching Methods - Part C
WORKSHOP
Type of Assessment - Part B
The Laboratory envisages three teaching levels: lessons, seminar communications and reading and planning exercises with the working commitment’s progressive transfer from the lecturer to the pupils, who must critically and graphically apply themselves to the proposed themes to demonstrate their actual participation in the Laboratory’s implementation in the examination interview.
Type of Assessment - Part C
FINAL TEST
Course program - Part B
The lessons and seminar communications will touch on the following subjects:
1. Theory and method
2. Territorial science
3. Anthropology of dwellings
4. Building typology
5. Urban morphology
6. Typologies and architectural language
7. Active history
8. Conclusive hypotheses