ANCIENT TOPOGRAPHY II

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Elective Course

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in ARCHITECTURAL AND DESIGN SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

Ancient Topography

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

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ANCIENT TOPOGRAPHY II

ARCHITECTURAL AND DESIGN SCIENCES

AF code:

40002528

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

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

Single Annual Cycle

Objectives

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

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

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

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”. Methods: 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

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

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