Università Roma Tre

The starting hypothesis imagines that the territory is like a sort of huge truthful not falsifiable palimpsest, on which the different cultures are destined to write their own chapter of the humanity historical narration, usually reusing, in whole or in part, the structural traces of previous generations. Settlements, fabrics, paths and boundaries constitute the implied categories of primary elements to be considered in reading. That aims approximately to reconstruct backwards scenarios, based on the same logic of projects that contributed in the various periods to build what can be precisely defined 'permanent substratum structures'.
The course aims at giving, through lessons, lectures and site visits, an overview of the way of reading the territory at the different scales: of the landscape, of the urban settlement, of the living practices and of the community expressions.
Based on specific case-studies, the course will deal with the topics concerning the man-made activities aimed at modifying a geographical context for satisfying the human necessities: to travel, to build settlements, to inhabit, to exploit it for the subsistence, to have exchanges and relationships, to represent a community.
Through the presentation of the case-studies the cultural tools and the operational methodologies will be exemplified for the definition, also on digital base, of 'organized forms of knowledge' useful for the documentation, for the characterization for planning purposes, for the communication of peculiar cognitive data related to the environment and settlements man-made transformation processes and for the vernacular language of the material culture of which building typologies and their components are the expression.

references and bibliography are given during the course

The starting hypothesis imagines that the territory is like a sort of huge truthful not falsifiable palimpsest, on which the different cultures are destined to write their own chapter of the humanity historical narration, usually reusing, in whole or in part, the structural traces of previous generations. Settlements, fabrics, paths and boundaries constitute the implied categories of primary elements to be considered in reading. That aims approximately to reconstruct backwards scenarios, based on the same logic of projects that contributed in the various periods to build what can be precisely defined 'permanent substratum structures'.
The course aims at giving, through lessons, lectures and site visits, an overview of the way of reading the territory at the different scales: of the landscape, of the urban settlement, of the living practices and of the community expressions.
Based on specific case-studies, the course will deal with the topics concerning the man-made activities aimed at modifying a geographical context for satisfying the human necessities: to travel, to build settlements, to inhabit, to exploit it for the subsistence, to have exchanges and relationships, to represent a community.
Through the presentation of the case-studies the cultural tools and the operational methodologies will be exemplified for the definition, also on digital base, of 'organized forms of knowledge' useful for the documentation, for the characterization for planning purposes, for the communication of peculiar cognitive data related to the environment and settlements man-made transformation processes and for the vernacular language of the material culture of which building typologies and their components are the expression.

references and bibliography are given during the course

The starting hypothesis imagines that the territory is like a sort of huge truthful not falsifiable palimpsest, on which the different cultures are destined to write their own chapter of the humanity historical narration, usually reusing, in whole or in part, the structural traces of previous generations. Settlements, fabrics, paths and boundaries constitute the implied categories of primary elements to be considered in reading. That aims approximately to reconstruct backwards scenarios, based on the same logic of projects that contributed in the various periods to build what can be precisely defined 'permanent substratum structures'.
The course aims at giving, through lessons, lectures and site visits, an overview of the way of reading the territory at the different scales: of the landscape, of the urban settlement, of the living practices and of the community expressions.
Based on specific case-studies, the course will deal with the topics concerning the man-made activities aimed at modifying a geographical context for satisfying the human necessities: to travel, to build settlements, to inhabit, to exploit it for the subsistence, to have exchanges and relationships, to represent a community.
Through the presentation of the case-studies the cultural tools and the operational methodologies will be exemplified for the definition, also on digital base, of 'organized forms of knowledge' useful for the documentation, for the characterization for planning purposes, for the communication of peculiar cognitive data related to the environment and settlements man-made transformation processes and for the vernacular language of the material culture of which building typologies and their components are the expression.

Pugliano A. The Recognition, the Documentation, the Catalog of Architectural Heritage. Elements of a constituting Thesaurus useful for Knowledge, Protection, Conservation of Architecture, 2 vols. Rome: Prospective editions; 2009.

In this course students gain familiarity with techniques and methods for understanding and documenting the historic-formative character of historic centres, including the various phases that have formed and transformed the urban fabric; construction types; their mutation over time; identification of “coherent” modification and distinction from incoherent or damaging changes that should be removed. Particular attention is devoted to recognising and understanding pre-modern construction techniques, architectural elements and finishes, with the intention of reusing these in contemporary architectural and urban restoration.

G. Caniggia, G.L. Maffei, Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia. 1. Lettura dell’edilizia di base, Marsilio editore, Venezia 1979