Università Roma Tre

The course of Architecture and Typology, variations in identity, is a training course in the degree curriculum which
reflects on the ways in which knowledge of works of architecture is transmitted, wishing to provide students with some tools for reading the project in order to understand the development of architectural form, the spatial qualities of buildings, the similarities and differences starting from invariant elements and structural similarities. The objective is to allow candidates to develop a critical capacity to read the project that will allow them to "access a structural understanding of form" in which type is therefore taken as a distinguishable, transmissible, conceptual formal element, which can anticipate the decisions of the project.

The course will be developed with lectures and discussions that will involve the candidates in the form of seminars prepared by reading some texts. The course will move on through a comparison of different cultural positions in the architectural debate of recent years, proceeding from the analysis of the design of single buildings to an in-depth examination of concepts connected to the themes of urban morphology.

The course will take place between lectures and seminars according to the following index:

Type and architecture, definitions
Manuals, the tools of the project against ideologies
Seminar projects 1_ type of spaces, manuals, history, project
Explaining architecture, the necessity of theory
Design and analysis, between method and aesthetic intentionality
Seminar projects 2_ the masters, the type: Mies, Le Corbusier, Kahn
Morphological invariants, anticipating the course of design
The building and the city, urban morphology
Seminar projects 3_ necessities of the city: Muratori, Rossi, Aymonino

Arìs, C. M., Le variazioni dell’identità, il tipo in architettura, Milano 1998