PROJECT EPISTEMOLOGY I

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Elective Course

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in ARCHITECTURAL AND DESIGN SCIENCES

Location:

ALGHERO

Disciplinary Sector:

LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

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PROJECT EPISTEMOLOGY I

ARCHITECTURAL AND DESIGN SCIENCES

AF code:

40002521

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Urban and Architectural Design
Final oral exam with assessment of the project.

Epistemology of Planning
Written exam, open questions (see teacher's webpage on platform for further details)

Aesthetics
Written exam, open questions (see teacher's webpage on platform for further details)

Ancient topography
The examination is coordinated with the design evaluation of the course "City and territory" and consists of an individual interview and a discussion of the project. In addition to the general preparation, the exam will therefore assess the ability and willingness to integrate historical themes within the project.

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.

Teaching Methods

Urban and Architectural Design
The course aims the design of the spaces of the city characterized by problems of interface between the urban, infrastructural and environmental dimension. It addresses the theme of housing crisis, both for the recovery of existing buildings and with respect to predictions of new settlement coherent with historical and environmental systems.
Groups of students (3/4 students). Face to face teaching course and laboratory with compulsory attendance.

Epistemology of Planning
Active participation; students will be asked to produce arguments to support or reject theories and points of view. Mode of delivery: lesson; class discussion of cases.

Aesthetics
Active participation; students will be asked to produce arguments to support or reject theories and points of view. Mode of delivery: lesson; class discussion of cases.

Ancient topography
The course, which is a modulus of “City and territory”, is delivered face-to-face (36 hours of lectures) and it is supplemented by a few seminars in the field of design workshops in the course “City and territory”.
Face-to-face lessons, seminars related to project workshops and laboratories, individual readings recommended, optional excursions of survey sites of the project.

Contacts/More Information

Urban and Architectural Design
- Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students. Language: English and Spanish.
- Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in a foreign language.
Bibliography in english:
- Maciocco Giovanni
People and Space. New Forms of Interaction in the City Project, 2009
Enhancing the City. New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure, 2009
The Territorial Future of the City, 2008
Urban Landscape Perspectives, 2008
Fundamental Trends in City Development, 2008
all edited by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, New York
City, Territory and Architecture Open Access Journal edited by Springer Verlag:
http://www.cityterritoryarchitecture.com
- Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language. Language: English and Spanish.

Epistemology of Planning and Aesthetics
- Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students. Language: English and French.
- Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in a foreign language. An alternative program in english or french can be provided.
- Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language. Language: English French and Spanish.

Ancient topography
Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language. Language: English, Spanish, French and Catalan.

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