Università Roma Tre

The course aims to make students aware of the complex interactions between land, environment and landscape. Interactions that are present since the genesis of urban settlements and that characterize and qualify today, human action in the government of its habitat.
The initial part of the course aims to introduce the study of the urban phenomenon and the functioning mechanisms of cities and territories in time, between "history" and "historical geography".

The course will develop the themes of urban and territorial transformations that affected Italy since 1900, the renewal of the purposes and forms of the instruments of government land, the current trends and design issues that permeate the search for greater quality settlements and urban sustainability.

The second part of the course is devoted to the architecture of open spaces, in its historical and current evolution, and provides a framework of knowledge related to historical, composition, figurative and environmental disciplines, in close relationship with the architectural design and the urban project. Main objectives are to transmit awareness of the complexity and richness of relationships that exist between the shape of the landscape and the technical, functional and expressive reasons that determine it in time.