Università Roma Tre

The course proposes to improve in the students the attitude of creating instruments useful to develop an operative connection between the observation of the existent and the design architecture of the new.

Personal and different for each one, such instruments depend from what each person is capable of getting from the observation of the architectures and of the ways in which these are used and lived. The observation is therefore referred at the interior and the exterior in the relationship sometimes contradictory and sometimes complementary is established among them.

Therefore the objective historical and documented existence of the observed architectural works becomes mere appearance and the observations becomes objective substance and then personal heritage.

Such kind of observation is based on a phenomenological approach that looks for the substantial what actually appears to us.