PROJECT EPISTEMOLOGY I

General Module

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in ARCHITECTURAL AND DESIGN SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Is part of:

City and region studio – Architecture curriculum (architectural and urban design)

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

BACCHINI Fabio

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

AF code:

40002521

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

Urban and Architectural Design
At the end of the course, the student will recognize the relationship between settlement and territory and in particular the methods of construction of the spatial and temporal conditions of sustainability of new urban landscapes characterized by environmental quality.
The student is able to define projects that experience different ways of inhabiting and may involve, in addition to the forms of residential building, new forms of living, meeting the demand of mobility for different profiles of urban populations.

Epistemology of Planning
The student will be able to see the wester city as the product of historical, social and cultural processes, and to compare its evolution with that of other similar products.

Aesthetics
The student will be able to access to an elementary knowledge of analytical aesthetics and ontology of art, with particular attention to architecture.

Ancient topography
Methodological foundations and empirical examples of historical readings of the area and the city.
The course aims to provide a framework that starts from an overview of the history of the city (and territories), to arrive at a detailed reading of the historical landscape. With regard to the first objective, the limited time available imposes a simplified view of the discipline, without affecting its cultural significance; this view addresses "thematically" the discussion, through two special keys, which structure the course itself, and that are listed below in the "Program" of the course.

Contents

Urban and Architectural Design
The classes will be related to emerging themes of the project and they define a framework of cultural background on the project of the city. In particular, the course addresses the following topics:
The project of the city.
The context. The global city. The urban breakthrough .
Ethics and the project of the territory.
The city according to the artists.
The repair of the city.
The intermediate spaces.
The city shapeless.
The desired landscapes .

Epistemology of Planning
- modernity/postmodernity
- the city in modern and contemporary novel
- social justice and an introduction to political philosophy

Aesthetics
- what is an artwork?
- what is the distinction between an artwork and a mere object?
- the ontology of the artwork
- the necessary and sufficient conditions of x to be an artwork
- the conceptual and ontological status of the architectural artwork
- is there still place for beauty in art? And in architecture?

Ancient topography
1. "Form and localization" (of human settlement over time): this theme suggests a vision of the evolution of urban morphology in view of the primary choices of the site (from the origin to the recent expansions de-localized), and leads to the reading of the environmental constraints and to the recognition of residual tracks of these deep "engines" of the insediamental development in the current organization of the city, especially through empirical researches starting by the older examples of urban-territorial structure.
2. Exemplification of the historical-topographical method: history of urban development in Sardinia, even to frame the specific case addressed as the design theme of "City and territory" in an precise historical overview.

Recommended Bibliography

Urban and Architectural Design
The lessons of the course will be referred to the emerging themes of the project and they are collected throught materials that create a framework of cultural background on the project of the city.
These materials will be available for students during the course. Will be given assistance to students both for the interpretation of the contents of the teaching materials related to the topic of the project, both for the study of the bibliography.

Epistemology of Planning
1. personal notes from classes.
2. David Harvey, 1989, The Condition of Postmodernity, Blackwell.
3. Robert Nozick, 1974, Anarchy State Utopia, Basic Books: selected passages.

Aesthetics
1. personal notes from classes.
2. Arthur Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1981.

Ancient topography
Benevolo L. Storia della città, 1975
Castagnoli F. Ippodamo di Mileto e l'urbanistica a pianta ortogonale, 1956
Grand R. Delatouche R. Storia agraria del Medioevo, 1968
Greco E. Torelli M. Storia dell'urbanistica. Il mondo greco, 1983
Liverani M. Uruk, la prima città, 1998
Martin R. L’urbanisme dans la Grèce antique, 1974
Rossi P. (ed.) Modelli di città, Torino 1987
Sommella P. Italia antica. L’urbanistica romana, Roma 2004
Mezzolani A. Urbanistica regolare nel mondo punico: note introduttive, 1994
Principe I. Storia ambiente e società nell'organizzazione del territorio in Sardegna (in Storia d'Italia, Einaudi), 1998
Azzena G. Osservazioni urbanistiche su alcuni centri portuali della Sardegna romana (in Africa Romana), 2000.

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