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Aims :

The aim of the lab is to improve students design expression capacity, basing on the theoretic scientific and cultural information provided in the course, giving students the possibility to get skilled with a personal scientifically proved methodology.

Topics :

Laboratory activities can count on the opportunity of joining “Composizione III” laboratory activities, both courses ending with an international summer school experience “Accademia Internazionale di Progettazione”, this year at its fifth edition. The summer school is a residential design and project workshop, organised under scientific responsibility of DARDUS, DISASC, and Darmstadt Faculty of Architecture, taking place at the Italian-German centre of Villa Vigoni, in Loveno di Menaggio Lake of Como. In this context some consideration on proposed courses are: 1) meaning of conceptual and practical design; 2) today designer role in professional and cultural world; 3) holistic point of view in design context; 4) landscape and city design and planning following a modern approach: ecological principles in American “New Urbanism” and Richard Forman and others Dutch and German most famous architects and planners thinking.

Textbooks :

- Alberti, F. (a cura di), Il paesaggio come alternativa, Alinea, Firnze, 2003
- Cappellato, G. – Sala, N., Viaggio matematico nell’arte e nell’architettura, Francoangeli, Milano, 2003
- Colantonio Venturelli, R., Il concetto di sostenibilità e quello di compatibilità nella pianificazione ambientale, in: “ATLAS”, n.19, 2000
- Heywood, I. - Cornelius, S. – Carver,S. An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems, Lonyman, New York, 1988.
- Ingegnoli, V., Fondamenti di ecologia del paesaggio, Cittàstudi, Milano, 1993
- Lynch, K., Progettare la città, Etaslibri, Milano, 1996
- Turri, E., La megalopoli padana, Marsilio, Venezia, 2004
- Urbanistica n.108

Exam :

Oral and planning examination.

Tutorial Session :

Mondays 1 pm- 2pm