B018878 - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN I

INGLESE

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 1 - B018878 - 6CFU –
PROF. RICCARDO RENZI
Teaching assistants: Elena Ceccarelli, Anna Dorigoni, Stefano Fusi, Andia Guga, Alessandra Marchetti.
Collaborators: Jessica Corradini, Ludovica Gregori, Gabriele Marinari.

Overview
The course is based on the architecture in different scale: from urban to the interior one. The student will be designing the final project starting from reading the city and than developing the concept in volumes. Later on the concept will become the final idea working with functional and organized interior spaces.

Assignment
Before to focus on final project each student will have to deliver (mandatory deadlines) several assignments. These exercises are useful for the student to understand italian architecture and its particular system of hidden compositional rules, of building, of city, of public space. All the assignment are mandatory and will be delivered to the teacher as scheduled. The student will have also to read some books. All the assignments are held by a single student.

Final Project
Final Project will be the design for a new building. It will focus on building as special architecture and its role in the contemporary space of the city. The student will have to be present at Desk Critique/Review to show the project to the teaching staff. Only when the teaching staff will agree that the project is complete the student will be able to reach the final exam. The Architectural Structural Design Lab will have a single grade for each single student and it will be the mathematical media between the grades of Architectural Design I, Structural Design and Building System Design and its assignments.

Attendance
The student has to be present at each lecture and each desk critique/review. Each project/assignment deadline as scheduled is mandatory. The student will be able to reach the final project only if has reached a minimun of 75% of presence at the lessons. In each Desk Critique/Review student will have to show drawings (handmade or printed) in scale (1:500/1:200/1:100/1:50/1:20 are the scale accepted) and handmade model of the project (1:500/1:200/1:100/1:50). The teacher will not respond at any email from the student asking suggestions or indication on the project/assignment, the Desk Critique/Review is the only way for the student to show the work in progress. For each student is mandatory to sign in at the morning arrive in teacher’s register of attendance.

Behaviour
During class is forbidden to use cell phones, drink and eat, and listen to music, talk loud or act in any way to disturb, etc.. During lecture is forbidden to use also computer etc. The student will have to carry always a A4 sketch book and drawings tools, plus materials for work on models as working in class.

Mandatory readings (a short abstract of these books will be provided by each single student at the end of class)
C.Sitte, City Planning According to Artistic Principles, 1889
Le Corbusier, Toward an architecture, 1923
B.Zevi, Architecture as Space, 1948
W.Gropius, Scope of Total Architecture, 1955
A. Rossi, The Architecture of the city, 1966

Essential texts
K.Lynch, The image of the city, 1960
E.T.Hall, The Hidden dimension, 1966
N. Pevsner, A history of building types, 1978
C.Norberg-Schultz, Western Architecture, 1979
K. Elam, Geometry of design, 2001

Suggested readings
F.L.Wright, An organic architecture. The architecture of democracy, 1939 (1945)
P.Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, 1948
L.Mumford, The city in history, 1961
R.Koolhaas , Delirious New York, 1978
C. Van de Ven, Space in architecture, 1980
K.Frampton, A critical history of Modern Architecture, 1980
D.Watkin, German architecture and the classical ideal, 1987 (1990)
J.Baudrillard , J.Nouvel, The singular object of architecture, 2003
R.Koolhaas, Junkspace, 2006
P.Zumthor, Atmospheres, 2007

Email: riccardo.renzi@unifi.it ----Teacher’s page http://www.unifi.it/p-doc2-2015-0-A-2c2a3a293429-1.html