The Faculty of Architecture / Architecture
IT-11 | Architecture – Context - Landscape
Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 1C+1L | ECTS Credits: 2
Department: History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation
- Titular:
- prof.dr.arh. Ana Maria Zahariade
- Learning outcomes:
- The course ARCHITECTURE – CONTEXT – LANDSCAPE is the second part of the course on ARCHITECTURE – DWELLING – TOWN (4th Semester), meant as an introduction to contemporary critical debates in architecture. The 5th semester broadens the theoretical discourses introduced in the previous semester with the contextual perspective, together with the concept of landscape and landscape architecture. The course will discuss, through examples, some directions that these new theorethical discourses gave to contemporary design practices. The aesthetical perspective investigates how these directions tend to redefine architecture's aesthetics.
Meanwhile, the seminars will focus on the site studied in the previous semester. Thus, students will be able to apply and investigate the same context from different perspectives. The objective is for the students to be able to apply theoretical concepts within the design process, and make them understand and crtically argument their interventions. The excercise consists in a small-scale intervention, aiming to rehabilitate the public space of immediate neighborhood within the context of collective housing in Bucharest. - Content:
- Lectures: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY DESIGN (2)
• 1-2 Functional perspective and its contemporary meaning; redefining the point of view of architectural programms
• 3 Contextual perspective and contextualism (1): context and attittudes towards the context in design (openings and limits)
• 4 Contextual perspective and contextualism (2): architecture and town – symbiosis and contradiction;
• 5 Landscape and urban landscape;
• 6 Landscape architecture as alternative;
• 7 Architecture from the aesthetical point of view: N. Hartman’s interpretation, introduction into a possible aesthetic perspective of architecture.
Practical work: URBAN EXPLORATION
• 1-2 Typology, text analysis with examples and exercises on the chosen site. Case studies: fundamental projects on the typo-morphological analysis;
• 3 Contextualism versus globalization; Critical regionalism as local understanding of the built space versus “super-modernism”/”terminal architecture”; text analyses;
• 4 Case studies: landscape architecture ; place rehabilitation through minimal interventions;
• 5-6 Exercises on the chosen site: “Overlapped readings”; drafting and sustaining of rehabilitation strategies;
• 7 Public debate of the works. - Teaching Method:
- lectures with slides and video; seminars : text analysis, video, individual presentations
- Assessment:
- exam 50%
seminars and practical works 50% - Bibliography:
- ASSUNTO, Rosario - Peisajul si estetica;
BROADNENT & LLORENZ - Semnificaţie şi comportament în mediul construit;
LYNCH, Kevin - The Image of the City;
MEISS, Pierre von - De la forme au lieu/Elements of Architecture;
MERLIN & CHOAY - Dictionnaire de l’urbanisme et l’amenagement;
MUMFORD, Lewis - The City in History + Arts & Technique;
NESSBIT, Kate - Theorizing architecture;
PEVSNER, Nikolaus - A History of Building types;
RYKWERT, Josef - The Idea of a Town;
SCULY, Vincent - The Natural and the Manmade;
WAGENAAR & DINKS - Ideals in Concrete
CRESTOMATIE: ARGAN, HUET, VON MEISS, ARGAN, ROSSI, VENTURI, SCHUMACHER, ROWE, & KOETTER etc.;
Dosarul despre Vittorio Gregotti ( SOLOMON, Marica, articolele despre Gregotti din Arhitext; RYKWERT, Josef, monografia Gregotti);
Dosarul din biblioteca UAUIM referitor la oras;
Cartea Concursului BUCURESTI 2000;
Arhitectura 1-/1997 (Bucuresti 2000) si 1-2/1998 (PIATA REVOLUTIEI)
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