Department:

Urban and Landscape Design

Course Leader:

asist.dr.urb. Radu Pătrașcu

Learning outcomes:

This course informs students on the urban concepts with a view to thoroughly know the landmarks of the doctrine and to approach the problems of urban planning within territory; also, the course develops students’ capacity to approach information in an interlaced manner in regard to a specific idea, and expands their ability to interpret a new or specific situation.

Content:

Space constitution as experience, cognition and philosophy; Professional language The city – typical human settlement as specific form of space constitution Systemic approach in organized space Human intervention on organized space as action of arranging the ambient system Modeling in architecture, urban and territorial planning Fundamental urban models: origins , characteristics , practical application, critical views Urban theory as interpretative support for organized space Decision and option in organizing intervention in space

Teaching Method:

Ex-cathedra lectures, comments on explanatory schemes, problem debate, case studies.

Assessment:

Tests during the semester + Final exam 40% - tests during the semester + 60% - final exam/multiple choice test. Requirements for passing the course: minimum 5,00 average final grade and minimum 5,00 at the final exam/multiple choice test

Bibliography:

MINIMUM 1. Francoise Choay: L’urbanisme, Utopies et realites, Ed. Du Seuil, Paris – 1979 2. Al. Sandu: Under the Sign of Paradoxes, Ed. Arxitext, Bucuresti – 2008 3. Francoise Choay: Patrimoniul la rascruce, Ed. Ozalid, București, 2015 4. L. Murray: Looking at Europen Arhitecture, Ed. CIVA, Bruxelles – 2008 (reperele 5,12,16,19,21,27) 5. Al. Sandu: Articles from the Arhitext Magazine 6. Francoise Choay: Pentru o antropologie a spatiului, Ed. RUR, București – 2011 7. ECTP – Carta urbanismului european, Ed. RUR, Bucuresti – 2014 ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY 8. Carta democrației participative, Ed. RUR, Bucuresti – 2016 9. Francesco Indovia: La citta diffusa, Ed. DAEST, Venetia – 2010 10. Petra Schilders: The organic city: Method or methaphor, Ed. INTI, Almere – 2010 11. Michel Lussault: L'Homme spatial, Ed. Seuil, Paris – 2007 12. François Ascher: Les nouveaux compromis urbains. Lexique de la ville plurielle, Ed. de l'Aube, Paris - 2008 13. F.L. Wright, S. Celibidache: Articole in revista Arhitext, nr.2/2016