Università Roma Tre

The proposal to operate in a small town, not far from Rome, concerns the possibility of dealing with an immanent and exemplary theme with respect to the Italian urban reality, the renewal and development of smaller towns, affected in recent decades by the absence of planning and from abandonment. These places are affected by profound social transformations, some foreign communities in recent decades have been repopulating the belt of small towns around Rome given the availability of housing and a lower cost of living than the capital, where they go to work.
These processes, if understood and accompanied by institutions and by clear planning, could constitute a resource for places that need a development and transformation horizon.


The direct experience of architecture plays a decisive role in the laboratory, in order to privilege
the physical and immanent dimension with respect to the theoretical one.
Therefore, a series of educational visits to urban environments are proposed, during which the characteristics of the spaces and their relationships with the context are surveyed with the drawing.

The first exercise foresees a work of analysis and reconstruction, to be carried out in groups, of illustrious urban projects. To acquire knowledge and composition tools of urban space and its formal structures through the study of past design experiences.

The course proposes group work on an urban project as its main activity, in the ways to be defined based on the number of students enrolled.

L. BENEVOLO, La cattura dell'infinito, Roma 1991
F. CELLINI, Architettura e città, Palermo 1991 (dispensa)
C. SITTE, L'arte di costruire la città, Roma 1969
A. e P. SMITHSON, The Space Between, Colonia 2016