The aim of this course “History of the city and its territory” is to provide students with carefully selected intellectual tools designed to enhance their ability to analyze and be aware of the complex History of the city.
This course, by initially taking into account the lexical peculiarities of the terms “city” and “territory”, will illustrate the urban and architectonic dynamics which have contributed to enrich these specific definitions with meaning.

To this purpose some important examples will be selected, examples chosen within the Classical and the Contemporary period, and that have determined various urban and architectonic configurations. Particular attention will be devoted to the Italian city and especially to the city of Rome.

Through the cyclical and constant dialectics between the figurative and the urban arts what will be emphasized is the nature and the effects of that inevitable interweaving upon the birth, the evolution and all the ‘tiles’ that have contributed to the creation of the varied ‘mosaic’ which is typical of the city and its territory.

General Bibliography:
- Joseph Rykwert, L’idea di città, Adelphi, Milano 2002
- Paolo Sica, L’immagine della città da Sparta a Las Vegas, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1991
- Cesare de Seta, La città europea. Origini, sviluppo e crisi della civiltà urbana in età moderna e contemporanea, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2010
- Vincenzo Trione, Effetto città. Arte/Cinema/Modernità, Bompiani, Milano 2014
- Lewis Mumford, La città nella storia, Comunità, Milano 1963 (Bompiani, Milano1961)
- Piero Maria Lugli, Storia e cultura della città italiana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1967
- Aldo Rossi, L’architettura della città, Marsilio editori, Padova 1973 (1966)
- Giovanni Botero, Delle cause della Grandezza delle Città, Cappelli, Bologna 1930 (1588)
- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, La città antica, Vallecchi, Firenze 1924 (1864)
- Marcel Poëte, La città antica, Einaudi, Torino 1958 (1929)
- Arnaldo Momigliano, La città antica di Fustel de Coulanges, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli 1970
- Jérôme Carcopino, La vita quotidiana a Roma all’apogeo dell’Impero, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005 (1930)
- Mihail Rostovtzeef, Storia economica e sociale dell’Impero romano, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1953 (1926), or the version M. Rostocev, idem, Sanzoni, Milano 2003
- P.M. Hohenberg, L.H. Lees, La città europea dal Medioevo a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1987.

General Bibliography cronologically selected:
- Leonardo Benevolo, Storia della città. Vol. 1: la città antica, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2006
- Leonardo Benevolo, Storia della città. Vol. 2: la città medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2006
- Leonardo Benevolo, Storia della città. Vol. 3: la città moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2006
- Leonardo Benevolo, Storia della città. Vol. 4 la città contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2006
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- Paolo Sica, Storia dell'urbanistica. Il Settecento, Bari, Laterza, 1976 (3ª ed. 1981)
- Paolo Sica, Storia dell'urbanistica. L’Ottocento, vol. I, Bari, Laterza, 1977 (3ª ed. 1985)
- Paolo Sica, Storia dell'urbanistica. L'Ottocento, vol. II, Bari, Laterza, 1977 (3ª ed. 1985)
- Paolo Sica, Storia dell'urbanistica. Il Novecento, Bari, Laterza, 1978 (3ª ed. 1985)

- Paolo Morachiello, La città greca, Roma Bari, Laterza 2003
- Paul Zanker, La città romana, Roma Bari, Laterza 2013
- Ennio Concina, La città bizantina, Roma Bari, Laterza 2003
- Alberto Grohmann, La città medievale, Roma Bari, Laterza 2003
- Donatella Calabi, La città del primo Rinascimento, Roma Bari, Laterza 2001
- Claudia Conforti, La città del tardo Rinascimento, Roma Bari, Laterza 2005
- Daniela Del Pesco, Andrew Hopkins, La città del Seicento, Roma Bari, Laterza 2014
- Giovanna Curcio, La città del Settecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008
- Guido Zucconi, La città dell'Ottocento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2001
- Bernardo Secchi, La città del ventesimo secolo, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2005

General Bibliography thematically suggested.
for 'Arcaic Age':
K. Kerény, Origine e fondazione della mitologia, saggio introduttivo a C. G. Jung e K. Kèreny, Prolegomeni allo studio scientifico della mitologia, Boringhieri, Torino 1964
Per la ‘partizione dello spazio sacro’: cfr. E.A. Gutkind, International History of the City … Development)
Mircea Eliade, Il sacro e il profano, Boringhieri, Torino 1967 (1957) [studi per/sulla ‘città antica’]
Mircea Eliade, Il mito dell’eterno ritorno, Borla, Torino 1968 (1949)

for 'Greek City'/'Town':
K. A. Doxiadis, The Greek City Plan, in “Landscape”, vol. 6, autunno 1956
Gustave Glotz, La città greca, Einaudi, Torino 1955 (1923)

from Medieval Age to Contemporary Age, and various items:
Leonardo Benevolo, Storia della città, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1975
Enrico Guidoni, La città europea. Formazione e significato dal IV al XI secolo, Electa, Milano 1970.
Enrico Guidoni, La città dal Medioevo al Rinascimento, Electa, Roma 1981.
Joseph Connors, Alleanze e inimicizie. L’ urbanistica di Roma barocca, Roma-Bari, 2005
Enrico Guidoni, Angela Marino, Storia dell’urbanistica. Il Seicento, Roma-Bari, 1979
Ludwig Hilberseimer, L’Architettura della Grande Città, Clean ed., Milano 1998
Arturo Soria y Mata, La città lineare, Il Saggiatore, Milano 1968
C.M. Travaglini, Economia e finanza, in "Storia di Roma dall'antichità ad oggi". Vol. IV: Roma moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002 (pp. 79-115, saggio scaricabile dal sito)
Giovanna Curcio, La città del Settecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008 (capitolo III, pp. 94-142)
- Roma dall’alto, a cura di M.F. Boemi-C.M. Travaglini, Roma, CROMA-Università degli Studi Roma Tre, 2006 (follow the specific sections suggested by teachers on their specific website).

On the 'Medieval City' in particular:
Dupré-Theseider, La città nell’alto Medioevo, Centro di Studi Italiani sull’Alto Medioevo, Spoleto 1959
Henri Pirenne, Le città del Medioevo, Laterza, Bari, 1974 (1927).
Edith Ennen, Storia della città medievale, Laterza, Roma Bari 1975 (1956)
Luigi Piccinto, Urbanistica medievale, Edizioni dedalo, Firenze 1993 (1978)
Pierre Toubert, Les structures du Latium médiéval. Le Latium méridional et la Sabine du IXe à la fin du XIIe siècle, Ecole Française de Rome, Roma 1973.
Enrico Guidoni, Arte e urbanistica in Toscana, 1000-1305, Bulzoni, Roma 1970
Irina Baldescu, Misura e struttura nelle città fondate dell’Europa centrale, in “Studia Patzinaka”, no. 7, 2008, pp. 59-78.
Jacques Heers, La città nel medioevo in Occidente, Jaca Book, Milano 1995 Bibliography:
- Joseph Rykwert, L’idea di città, Adelphi, Milano 2002
- Paolo Sica, L’immagine della città da Sparta a Las Vegas, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1991
- Cesare de Seta, La città europea. Origini, sviluppo e crisi della civiltà urbana in età moderna e contemporanea, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2010
- Vincenzo Trione, Effetto città. Arte/Cinema/Modernità, Bompiani, Milano 2014
- Lewis Mumford, La città nella storia, Comunità, Milano 1963 (Bompiani, Milano1961)
- Piero Maria Lugli, Storia e cultura della città italiana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1967
- Aldo Rossi, L’architettura della città, Marsilio editori, Padova 1973 (1966)
- Giovanni Botero, Delle cause della Grandezza delle Città, Cappelli, Bologna 1930 (1588)
- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, La città antica, Vallecchi, Firenze 1924 (1864)
- Marcel Poëte, La città antica, Einaudi, Torino 1958 (1929)
- Arnaldo Momigliano, La città antica di Fustel de Coulanges, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli 1970
- Jérôme Carcopino, La vita quotidiana a Roma all’apogeo dell’Impero, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005 (1930)
- Mihail Rostovtzeef, Storia economica e sociale dell’Impero romano, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1953 (1926), o l’edizione M. Rostocev, idem, Sanzoni, Milano 2003
- P.M. Hohenberg, L.H. Lees, La città europea dal Medioevo a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1987.

General Bibliography cronologically selected:
- Leonardo Benevolo, Storia della città. Vol. 1: la città antica, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2006
- Leonardo Benevolo, Storia della città. Vol. 2: la città medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2006
- Leonardo Benevolo, Storia della città. Vol. 3: la città moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2006
- Leonardo Benevolo, Storia della città. Vol. 4 la città contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2006
-
- Paolo Sica, Storia dell'urbanistica. Il Settecento, Bari, Laterza, 1976 (3ª ed. 1981)
- Paolo Sica, Storia dell'urbanistica. L’Ottocento, vol. I, Bari, Laterza, 1977 (3ª ed. 1985)
- Paolo Sica, Storia dell'urbanistica. L'Ottocento, vol. II, Bari, Laterza, 1977 (3ª ed. 1985)
- Paolo Sica, Storia dell'urbanistica. Il Novecento, Bari, Laterza, 1978 (3ª ed. 1985)

- Paolo Morachiello, La città greca, Roma Bari, Laterza 2003
- Paul Zanker, La città romana, Roma Bari, Laterza 2013
- Ennio Concina, La città bizantina, Roma Bari, Laterza 2003
- Alberto Grohmann, La città medievale, Roma Bari, Laterza 2003
- Donatella Calabi, La città del primo Rinascimento, Roma Bari, Laterza 2001
- Claudia Conforti, La città del tardo Rinascimento, Roma Bari, Laterza 2005
- Daniela Del Pesco, Andrew Hopkins, La città del Seicento, Roma Bari, Laterza 2014
- Giovanna Curcio, La città del Settecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008
- Guido Zucconi, La città dell'Ottocento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2001
- Bernardo Secchi, La città del ventesimo secolo, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2005

General Bibliography thematically suggested.
for 'Arcaic Age':
K. Kerény, Origine e fondazione della mitologia, saggio introduttivo a C. G. Jung e K. Kèreny, Prolegomeni allo studio scientifico della mitologia, Boringhieri, Torino 1964
Per la ‘partizione dello spazio sacro’: cfr. E.A. Gutkind, International History of the City … Development)
Mircea Eliade, Il sacro e il profano, Boringhieri, Torino 1967 (1957) [studi per/sulla ‘città antica’]
Mircea Eliade, Il mito dell’eterno ritorno, Borla, Torino 1968 (1949)

for 'Greek City'/'Town':
K. A. Doxiadis, The Greek City Plan, in “Landscape”, vol. 6, autunno 1956
Gustave Glotz, La città greca, Einaudi, Torino 1955 (1923)

from Medieval Age to Contemporary Age, and various items:
Leonardo Benevolo, Storia della città, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1975
Enrico Guidoni, La città europea. Formazione e significato dal IV al XI secolo, Electa, Milano 1970.
Enrico Guidoni, La città dal Medioevo al Rinascimento, Electa, Roma 1981.
Joseph Connors, Alleanze e inimicizie. L’ urbanistica di Roma barocca, Roma-Bari, 2005
Enrico Guidoni, Angela Marino, Storia dell’urbanistica. Il Seicento, Roma-Bari, 1979
Ludwig Hilberseimer, L’Architettura della Grande Città, Clean ed., Milano 1998
Arturo Soria y Mata, La città lineare, Il Saggiatore, Milano 1968
C.M. Travaglini, Economia e finanza, in "Storia di Roma dall'antichità ad oggi". Vol. IV: Roma moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002 (pp. 79-115, saggio scaricabile dal sito)
Giovanna Curcio, La città del Settecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008 (capitolo III, pp. 94-142)
- Roma dall’alto, a cura di M.F. Boemi-C.M. Travaglini, Roma, CROMA-Università degli Studi Roma Tre, 2006 (le sezioni indicate dai docenti, scaricabili dal sito).
On the 'Medieval City' in particular:
Dupré-Theseider, La città nell’alto Medioevo, Centro di Studi Italiani sull’Alto Medioevo, Spoleto 1959
Henri Pirenne, Le città del Medioevo, Laterza, Bari, 1974 (1927).
Edith Ennen, Storia della città medievale, Laterza, Roma Bari 1975 (1956)
Luigi Piccinto, Urbanistica medievale, Edizioni dedalo, Firenze 1993 (1978)
Pierre Toubert, Les structures du Latium médiéval. Le Latium méridional et la Sabine du IXe à la fin du XIIe siècle, Ecole Française de Rome, Roma 1973.
Enrico Guidoni, Arte e urbanistica in Toscana, 1000-1305, Bulzoni, Roma 1970
Irina Baldescu, Misura e struttura nelle città fondate dell’Europa centrale, in “Studia Patzinaka”, no. 7, 2008, pp. 59-78.
Jacques Heers, La città nel medioevo in Occidente, Jaca Book, Milano 1995

Talking about urban renewal is an opportunity to learn and enhance the wealth of households, quarters and cities that form the majority of urban contexts in which we live.
An historical centre, in particular, is a territorial context extremely delicate, with a distinct urban identity and a high historical value referable both to the urban structure and to the individual buildings, including those of significant value. Any planning action concerning an historical centre is therefore complex because "it is about, in the first place, to know it and recognize it, so as to understand its characteristics - spatial, documentary, functional - that identify it" (G.Piccinato, 2008).
Understand, in essence, the territorial role.
But also, and above all, it is important to understand the vision that the inhabitants and users have of the historical centre ("who owns the centre?").
The course aims at providing the elements of the discipline, methodology and technique to intervene in those urban areas, historical and not, identified since 1978 by the law 457, which introduced the instrument of the recovery plan. This also and especially in the light of the evolution that the instrument had over the years and the current urban dynamics, ever more interested in the recovery of the existing urban areas.
The course will be divided in the following four parts, strictly related:
1. recovery planning: the scientific background and evolution of the disciplinary debate
In this part the scientific context of urban renewal ("what we talk about?") in the field of the urban planning regulations will be defined and will run the history of the disciplinary debate that, since the Fifties, addressed urban contexts, and later even those degraded both in terms physical and social, will be studied.
2. legislation and planning instruments
This part will analyze the texts of laws affecting the intervention on historical contexts, and in general on the existing building and urban structures, and related planning instruments, from the Recovery Plan (Art. 27 of Law 457 of 1978), up to the integrated programs of the nineties.
3. techniques
The study of the techniques of interventions in historical contexts will make use of the analyses of recovery plans and detailed plans of town centres, checking out the objectives, contents, technical procedures, the procedural issues and, finally, the story of implementation.
4. a practical exercise
Simultaneously with the theoretical disciplinary component, the study of a portion of a historical urban context will be addressed to set up an integrated strategy of recovery and valorization, which will include the Recovery Plan, the Mobility Plan, the Public Works Program, the socio-economic feasibility study, and identify related urban policies and participatory planning mechanisms.

Mario Cerasoli, Gianluca Mattarocci (a cura di), Rigenerazione urbana e mercato immobiliare. RomaTrE-Press, Roma 2018

The aims of Urban Studies course are to provide students with the essential theoretical framework for a critical understanding of urban issues and to be able to compare these with the more large vision of the urban project. The structure of the course and the issues proposed will allow the student to put his university training experience in dialogue with the themes of architecture and those of urban studies by establishing interconnections to build a more global picture of urban skills.

References and bibliography are given during the course. As an example:
Massimo Cacciari, La città, Pazzini
Leonardo Benevolo, La cattura dell'infinito, Laterza
Giovanni Ferraro, Il libro dei luoghi, Jaka book
Roberto Esposito, Communitas, Einaudi
Michel Foucault, Spazi altri, i luoghi delle eterotopie (a cura di) S. Vaccaro, Mimesis
Francesco Remotti, Contro l'identità, Laterza

The course is geared towards the role of Security Coordinator during the design and execution phase.
To this end the course addresses the themes, developed with a theoretical and applicative character, relating to the figures and procedures of the building process. It is then possible to find a complete representation of the building process describing the various figures involved (client, designer, builder, etc.) and their nature, the competences each of them must have, the relationships and procedures identified at the regulatory level regulatory and technical standards that are customary. Finally, the various phases that characterize the realization of a public work are presented.
The course is divided into two modules: the first one dedicated to organization and security at construction sites and a second dedicated to safety management during design and construction.
Both modules will focus on the concept of risk analysis and assessment, thus enabling a virtuous path in the acquisition by students of the ability to plan the security project at all stages.
Module A. Construction, organization and security process at site
The module is divided into two parts:
A1. Site construction, use of machinery and safety devices.
With particular reference to the issue of occupational safety, they are studied and exemplified with respect to the construction site concerned, the problems associated with the layout and logistics of the yard, the operation of machinery and production equipment, scaffolding and provisional works, construction sites, toilets, safety signs, personal and collective protection devices. Exercise activities are related to the design of the yard in its evolutionary phases;
A2. Analytical techniques for managing the production process.
The decision-making situations typical of the management of building production are studied, largely referring to the formalization of Operational Research and ISO 9000 standards. In particular work scheduling techniques and optimization techniques for the use of resources.
Module B. Security management during design and construction
The teaching is integrated with that of the previous module and aims to provide knowledge and techniques for designing and managing safety on site. The subjects covered and the strong application connotation make it functional to enable students to achieve one of the requirements required to play the role of security coordinator both in the design phase and in the execution phase of the works.

A. Simonetti, A. Di Muro (2010) Repertorio di piani di sicurezza e coordinamento, Editore EPC libri, Roma.
Testo Unico per la salute e sicurezza nei luoghi di lavoro (2013) D.lgs. 9 aprile 2008 n. 81 e s.m.i., aggiornato con il D.lgs. 3 agosto 2009 n. 106, e Decreto-Legge 28 giugno 2013.

The aim of the course is the exploration and re-appropriation of the city through the arts. It will take place entirely in the urban space using walks, performative actions, installations. The Course teaches us to get lost, to recognize the arts of discovery, of the encounter with the Other. It proposes walking as a research method, with the intent to reactivate in the students and in the inhabitants their innate capacity for creative transformation of the space in which they live, to remind them that they have a body and the desires with which they can modify it.
In the first days of the course there will be an introductory phase on the relationship between arts and cities, between arts and nomadism, on the practices conducted by Francesco Careri together with Stalker in Rome in the last twenty years. Then the peripatetic phase will begin, through long, aimless walks, with the intention of consciously get lost in the city. At this stage there will be some rules to follow: we don’t walk on sidewalks or asphalt; we can never go back; we don’t believes in private property; but above all: who waste time gain space. We will try to stay behind the built city, along the margins and borders, to reconstruct a unitary thread to the fragments of separate cities in which we live. But we will proceed in a cross-eyed way, towards a goal and towards what diverts it from the goal, disposing itself to road accidents, to the possibility of stumbling and of making a mistake. We will try to take the city by surprise, indirectly, sideways, playful, non-functional, to stumble into unexplored territories where new questions arise. Students will be asked to try to look at reality "with their heads under their legs", to overturn their points of view, to produce places through their actions, to transform their own living spaces with material and immaterial interventions, to find new ways to tell them.

a lot of information about the contents and results of courses in recent years can be found in the blog: http://articiviche.blogspot.com/

basic Bibliography:

- FRANCESCO CARERI, WALKSCAPES. EL ANDAR COMO PRÀCTICA ESTÉTICA / WALKING AS AN AESTHETIC PRACTICE, EDITORIAL GUSTAVO GILI, BARCELLONA 2002, TRAD IT. WALKSCAPES. IL CAMMINARE COME PRATICA ESTETICA, EINAUDI, TORINO 2006.
- BRUCE CHATWIN, THE SONGLINES (1987), TRAD. IT. LE VIE DEI CANTI, ADELPHI, MILANO, 1988

See also:
- FRANCESCO CARERI, LORENZO ROMITO, CAMPUS ROM, ALTRIMEDIA EDIZIONI, MATERA 2017
- ANNA DETHERIDGE, SCULTORI DELLA SPERANZA. L'ARTE NEL CONTESTO DELLA GLOBALIZZAZIONE, EINAUDI 2012
- AA.VV., INTERNAZIONALE SITUAZIONISTA 1958-69, NAUTILUS/STAMPATRE, TORINO, 1994
- FRANCESCO CARERI, CONSTANT / NEW BABYLON, UNA CITTÀ NOMADE, TESTO & IMMAGINE, TORINO, 2001
- FRANCO LA CECLA., PERDERSI, L'UOMO SENZA AMBIENTE, LATERZA, BARI, 1988
- PETER LANG, A CURA DI., SUBURBAN DISCIPLINE, PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, NEW YORK, 1997
- ROSALIND KRAUSS, PASSAGES IN MODERN SCULPTURE, MIT PRESS, 1981, TR. IT. PASSAGGI, BRUNO MONDADORI, MILANO, 1998

Through a series of lectures, seminars, workshops and case studies, the course endeavours to impart a critical understanding of the economics governing urban development and the real estate market, enabling students to appreciate and assess the contexts within which a city economy operates.
Focusing on case studies will be the teaching core of the course and a rich basis for developing students’ problem solving and decision making skills will be provided.
In order to strengthen participants' analytical skills, the course also provides: a) training in the critical assessment and use of micro- and macro-economic data, b) the analysis of urban economic activity and the application of economic criteria to urban projects. The main learning goals are the following: a) to use simple empirical tools of economic analysis and evaluation, b) to articulate a critical analysis of competing viewpoints and cooperative assessments between the actors involved, and c) to integrate various analytic steps into some simple overall assessments of the relationship between markets and policy that relies on sound principles and is well argued. Mostly regarding the goal sub letter c), students will be expected to actively participate and make presentations.

L. Gaeta, Il mercato immobiliare. Beni, diritti, valori, Carocci, 2009.
Fausto Curti, Lo scambio leale. Negoziazione urbanistica e offerta privata di spazi e servizi pubblici, Officina, 2006.

The Course deals with the study of architectonic barriers and design and technological solutions able to overcome them, in order to guarantee for all the people the accessibility to settings, facilities and furniture.
The town and transport system’s planning, the new and existing building’s design must provide for all that solutions able to allow a free berries spaces, promoting orientation and both settings and hazardous situations recognition, at the same time.
Therefore, confirming the idea that man, in his broadest sense, must be placed at the centre of the project, the concepts of accessibility and availability will be integrated into those ones concerning comfort, safety and multisensory.

Argentin, I.; Clemente, M.; Empler, T. [2004]. Eliminazione barriere architettoniche. Progettare per un’utenza ampliata, DEI, Roma.

The form of collective life

Being one of the most significant elements of the city, housing plays a fundamental role as the backbone of the city. Housing is a system of elements that decisively contributes to the definition of the urban quality and to the organization of the public spaces. By carefully observing the character of this urban structure we can identify the very nature of the city: the political, economic and social aspects that shaped it throughout time.

The aim of the course is to investigate and evaluate the ways in which today architecture allows us to live together. How can we be together within a residential building? How can we give form to our intimacy and at the same time share moments of our everyday life? To answer these questions one has to interrogate the relationships that these buildings produce between the city and its inhabitants, or more generally, with the surrounding urban space.

Recent cultural, social, economic and technological transformations are modifying the very structure of our everyday life, our rituals, and consequently the way in which we inhabit the public and private space. This changes demand a profound rethinking of the domestic space

The form and the organization of housing can be read as a device that relates with:

- the public sphere, by intervening directly on the form of the city and participating to the construction its ‘image’.
- the private sphere, by defining the nature of the domestic space, of the life taking place in the interior.

The building is thus understood as a device that can create a relationship between the city and the room, between the public and private spheres of our everyday life.

- Modernità debole e diffusa. Il mondo progetto all'inizio del XXI secolo, Andrea Branzi, (Skira: Milan) 2006.
- Graphic Anatomy Atelier Bow-Wow, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Momoyo Kaijima (Eds.), (TOTO Shuppan: Tokyo) 2007.
- Real Estate Architecture#1. The Apartment Building, Benoît Burquel, Thaïs de Roquemaurel, Martin Dumont, Guillaume Joachim (Eds.), (REA ASBL/VZW: Brussels) 2018.
- Typology. Hong Kong, Rome, New York, Buenos Aires, Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton, Christoph Gantenbein (Eds.), (ETH Zurich/Park Books: Zurich) 2012.
- Lacaton&Vassal, Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal (Eds.), (Cité de l'architecture&du patrimoine/Hyx publisher: Paris) 2009.
- Housing Differentiation, Lotus 132, Milan 2008.
- Jean Nouvel. Elementi di architettura, Conway Lloyd Morgan, (Rizzoli International Publications: Milan) 1998.
- Jean Nouvel. Una lezione in Italia. Architettura e design 1976-1995, Giampiero Bosoni, Simonetta Venosta (Eds.), (Skira: Milan) 1996.
- Model Apartments. Experimental domestic cells, Gustau Gili Galfetti, (Editorial Gustavo Gili: Barcelona) 1997.
- Urban Transformation, Ilka & Andreas Ruby (Eds.), (Ruby Press: Berlin) 2008.
- Re-cycle. Strategie per l'architettura, la citta e il pianeta, Pippo Ciorra, Sara Marini (Eds.), (Electa: Milan) 2011.
- Osservatorio Nomade. Immaginare Corviale. Pratiche ed estetiche per la città contemporanea, Flaminia Gennari Santori , Bartolomeo Pietromarchi (Eds.), (Bruno Mondadori: Milan) 2006.
- Density projects. 36 new concepts on collective housing, Fernàndez Per, Javier Arpa, (a+t Density series: Vitoria-Gasteiz) 2007.
- Plus. Large scale housing developments. An exceptional case, Fréderic Druot, Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal (Eds.), (Editorial Gustavo Gili: Barcelona) 2007.
- Dogma + Realism Working Group Communal Villa. Production and Reproduction in Artists' Housing, Dogma, Martin Hager, Christian Hiller, Nikolaus Hirsch, Realism Working Group (Eds.), (Spector Books: Leipzig) 2015.
- Hannes Meyer. Co-op Interieur, Artistide Antonas, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Raquel Franklin (Eds.), (Spector Books: Leipzig) 2015.
- La Casa Calda. Esperienze del Nuovo Design Italiano, Andrea Branzi, (Idea Books: Milan) 1984.
- The Co-op Principle. Hannes Meyer and the Concept of Collective Design, Raquel Franklin, Werner Moller, Tim Leik (Eds.), (Spector Books: Dessau) 2015.
- Interior Tales, Francisco Sanin, Davide Sacconi (Eds.), (Black Square: Milan) 2015.
- Bow-Wow from Post Bubble City, Atelier Bow-Wow (Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Momoyo Kaijima), (INAX Publishing: Japan) 2006.
- Made in Tokyo, Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, (Kajima Institute Publishing Co.: Japan) 2008.
- L'Italia cerca casa, Francesco Garofalo (Ed.), (Electa: Milan) 2008.
- Reduce Reuse Recycle. Ressource Architektur, Muck Petzet, Florian Heilmeyer, (Hatje Cantz Verlag: Ostfildern) 2012.
- Home Economics. Five new models for domestic life, Shumi Bose, Jack Self, Finn Williams (Eds.), (The Spaces: Venice) 2016.
- Topologies. The Urban Utopia in France, 1960-1970, Larry Busbea, (The Mit Press: Cambridge) 2007.
- Housing Design. A Manual, Bernars Leupen, Harald Mooij, (Nai Publishers: Rotterdam) 2011.
- Floor Plan Manual. Housing, Friederike Schneider (Ed.), (Birkhäuser: Basel) 2004.
- Typology+. Innovative Residential Architecture, Peter Ebner, Eva Herrmann, Roman Holbacher, Markus Kuntscher, Urlike Wietzorre, (Birkhäuser: Basel) 2010.

The module of Architectural Design of the Restoration and Enhancement within the course will contribute to the treatment of theoretical topics, to the illustration of tools and methods related to the design and execution processes of the restoration through the presentation of models of behavior, demonstrated through real examples at the scales of the territory, the settlement, architecture and its components.
Within the framework of this path, teaching aims to achieve the following learning outcomes:
1) understanding of the production processes of the restoration and enhancement project.
2) the ability to trace, contextualize, analyze and critically interpret the role of direct historiographical sources (critical and targeted surveys) and indirect (bibliographic, iconographic, cartographic, archival documentary) for the purpose of the project and the implementation of the restoration..
3) the propensity to practice the definition of technical solutions for restoration that are technically effective, economically sustainable, philologically compatible.

Marconi P. Restauro dei monumenti. Cultura, progetti e cantieri 1967-2010. Roma: Gangemi; 2012
Pugliano A. Con il fine di Conservare. Fisionomia professionale e ambiti operativi degli addetti alla conservazione dei beni architettonici e ambientali. In R.P. MILONE E (a cura di), l'Esame di Stato (pp. 308-327). ROMA: Prospettive Edizioni; 2007
Pugliano A. Anatomia degli organismi edilizi tradizionali. In ZEVI L (a cura di), Manuale del Restauro Architettonico (pp. A1-A45). ROMA: Mancosu Editore. 2001
Pugliano A. L'organismo architettonico premoderno. Consuetudini costruttive e compagine materiale dell'edilizia storica di ambiente romano. In Giovanetti F (a cura di), Manuale del recupero del Comune di Roma. Seconda edizione ampliata (pp. 47-121). ROMA: DEI 1997.
De Felice G, Pugliano A. Il lessico costruttivo dell'edilizia storica. In Giuffrè A (a cura di), Sicurezza e conservazione dei centri storici. Il caso di Ortigia (pp. 69-99). Roma Bari: GLF Editori Laterza 1993.

The major aim of the course is to confront the students with a critical assessment of structural systems of historical buildings, comparing design projects with historic preservation handbooks.
In order to increase the knowledge of historical heritage, the students will therefore be asked to analyse structural and morfological systems. Lectures with the course of "Design and Restoration A" are planned.
Topics of the lectures:
- The practice of architecture and the art of construction. Handbooks and technical literature between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries by way of comparing construction practices with materials. Handbooks of “Architettura Pratica” and preservation handbooks.

- P. Marconi, F. Giovanetti, E. Pallottino [a cura], "Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma", DEI, Roma 1989
- F. Giovanetti [a cura], "Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma", II edizione ampliata, DEI, Roma 1997
- P. Marconi, "Materia e significato. La questione del restauro architettonico", Laterza, Bari 1999
- F.R. Stabile, M. Zampilli, C. Cortesi [a cura], "Centri storici minori. Progetti per il recupero della bellezza", Gangemi editore, Roma 2009
- P. Marconi, "Restauro dei monumenti – Cultura, progetti e cantieri 1967-2010", Gangemi, Roma 2012

The course deals with issues and exemplary and/or controversial cases of the international debate on the restoration of monuments and on the conservation of cultural heritage.
Criteria, traditions, methods and techniques, related to specific geographical areas, orient and consolidate different ways of operating in other latitudes, sometimes in analogy, sometimes in open contrast with the principles of the Italian restoration discipline.
The monographic lectures, alongside the reading of the case studies, are accompanied by a continuous comparison with the documents and the international restoration charters, which evolve in parallel with the widening and progress of the conceptions on the nature and the specificity of the "cultural heritages", differentiated both for the contexts and geographical areas in which they arise, both for the history, traditions and cultures that have accompanied them over the centuries.
The study of diversity, as well as cultural singularities - in the field of restoration - in other nations contributes to enrich the knowledge of the theme and broadens the reference horizons of those who will be called to intervene, overcoming ideological barriers and prejudices, with greater awareness and responsibility on the existing built.

Carlo Ceschi, Teoria e Storia del restauro; Bulzoni, Roma 1970.
Jukka Jokilehto, A History of Architectural Conservation, Butterworth Heinemann - ICCROM, Oxford 1999.
Maria Margarita Segarra Lagunes, Restauración. Método y proyectos, Editorial técnica Avicam, Granada 2018.
Maria Margarita Segarra Lagunes, Método y práctica de la restauración arquitectónica, Efesto editore, Roma 2018.

Talking about urban renewal is an opportunity to learn and enhance the wealth of households, quarters and cities that form the majority of urban contexts in which we live.
An historical centre, in particular, is a territorial context extremely delicate, with a distinct urban identity and a high historical value referable both to the urban structure and to the individual buildings, including those of significant value. Any planning action concerning an historical centre is therefore complex because "it is about, in the first place, to know it and recognize it, so as to understand its characteristics - spatial, documentary, functional - that identify it" (G.Piccinato, 2008).
Understand, in essence, the territorial role.
But also, and above all, it is important to understand the vision that the inhabitants and users have of the historical centre ("who owns the centre?").
The course aims at providing the elements of the discipline, methodology and technique to intervene in those urban areas, historical and not, identified since 1978 by the law 457, which introduced the instrument of the recovery plan. This also and especially in the light of the evolution that the instrument had over the years and the current urban dynamics, ever more interested in the recovery of the existing urban areas.
The course will be divided in the following four parts, strictly related:
1. recovery planning: the scientific background and evolution of the disciplinary debate
In this part the scientific context of urban renewal ("what we talk about?") in the field of the urban planning regulations will be defined and will run the history of the disciplinary debate that, since the Fifties, addressed urban contexts, and later even those degraded both in terms physical and social, will be studied.
2. legislation and planning instruments
This part will analyze the texts of laws affecting the intervention on historical contexts, and in general on the existing building and urban structures, and related planning instruments, from the Recovery Plan (Art. 27 of Law 457 of 1978), up to the integrated programs of the nineties.
3. techniques
The study of the techniques of interventions in historical contexts will make use of the analyses of recovery plans and detailed plans of town centres, checking out the objectives, contents, technical procedures, the procedural issues and, finally, the story of implementation.
4. a practical exercise
Simultaneously with the theoretical disciplinary component, the study of a portion of a historical urban context will be addressed to set up an integrated strategy of recovery and valorization, which will include the Recovery Plan, the Mobility Plan, the Public Works Program, the socio-economic feasibility study, and identify related urban policies and participatory planning mechanisms.

Mario Cerasoli, Gianluca Mattarocci (a cura di), Rigenerazione urbana e mercato immobiliare. RomaTrE-Press, Roma 2018

The aims of Urban Studies course are to provide students with the essential theoretical framework for a critical understanding of urban issues and to be able to compare these with the more large vision of the urban project. The structure of the course and the issues proposed will allow the student to put his university training experience in dialogue with the themes of architecture and those of urban studies by establishing interconnections to build a more global picture of urban skills.

References and bibliography are given during the course. As an example:
Massimo Cacciari, La città, Pazzini
Leonardo Benevolo, La cattura dell'infinito, Laterza
Giovanni Ferraro, Il libro dei luoghi, Jaka book
Roberto Esposito, Communitas, Einaudi
Michel Foucault, Spazi altri, i luoghi delle eterotopie (a cura di) S. Vaccaro, Mimesis
Francesco Remotti, Contro l'identità, Laterza

The aim of the course is the exploration and re-appropriation of the city through the arts. It will take place entirely in the urban space using walks, performative actions, installations. The Course teaches us to get lost, to recognize the arts of discovery, of the encounter with the Other. It proposes walking as a research method, with the intent to reactivate in the students and in the inhabitants their innate capacity for creative transformation of the space in which they live, to remind them that they have a body and the desires with which they can modify it.
In the first days of the course there will be an introductory phase on the relationship between arts and cities, between arts and nomadism, on the practices conducted by Francesco Careri together with Stalker in Rome in the last twenty years. Then the peripatetic phase will begin, through long, aimless walks, with the intention of consciously get lost in the city. At this stage there will be some rules to follow: we don’t walk on sidewalks or asphalt; we can never go back; we don’t believes in private property; but above all: who waste time gain space. We will try to stay behind the built city, along the margins and borders, to reconstruct a unitary thread to the fragments of separate cities in which we live. But we will proceed in a cross-eyed way, towards a goal and towards what diverts it from the goal, disposing itself to road accidents, to the possibility of stumbling and of making a mistake. We will try to take the city by surprise, indirectly, sideways, playful, non-functional, to stumble into unexplored territories where new questions arise. Students will be asked to try to look at reality "with their heads under their legs", to overturn their points of view, to produce places through their actions, to transform their own living spaces with material and immaterial interventions, to find new ways to tell them.

a lot of information about the contents and results of courses in recent years can be found in the blog: http://articiviche.blogspot.com/

basic Bibliography:

- FRANCESCO CARERI, WALKSCAPES. EL ANDAR COMO PRÀCTICA ESTÉTICA / WALKING AS AN AESTHETIC PRACTICE, EDITORIAL GUSTAVO GILI, BARCELLONA 2002, TRAD IT. WALKSCAPES. IL CAMMINARE COME PRATICA ESTETICA, EINAUDI, TORINO 2006.
- BRUCE CHATWIN, THE SONGLINES (1987), TRAD. IT. LE VIE DEI CANTI, ADELPHI, MILANO, 1988

See also:
- FRANCESCO CARERI, LORENZO ROMITO, CAMPUS ROM, ALTRIMEDIA EDIZIONI, MATERA 2017
- ANNA DETHERIDGE, SCULTORI DELLA SPERANZA. L'ARTE NEL CONTESTO DELLA GLOBALIZZAZIONE, EINAUDI 2012
- AA.VV., INTERNAZIONALE SITUAZIONISTA 1958-69, NAUTILUS/STAMPATRE, TORINO, 1994
- FRANCESCO CARERI, CONSTANT / NEW BABYLON, UNA CITTÀ NOMADE, TESTO & IMMAGINE, TORINO, 2001
- FRANCO LA CECLA., PERDERSI, L'UOMO SENZA AMBIENTE, LATERZA, BARI, 1988
- PETER LANG, A CURA DI., SUBURBAN DISCIPLINE, PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, NEW YORK, 1997
- ROSALIND KRAUSS, PASSAGES IN MODERN SCULPTURE, MIT PRESS, 1981, TR. IT. PASSAGGI, BRUNO MONDADORI, MILANO, 1998

Through a series of lectures, seminars, workshops and case studies, the course endeavours to impart a critical understanding of the economics governing urban development and the real estate market, enabling students to appreciate and assess the contexts within which a city economy operates.
Focusing on case studies will be the teaching core of the course and a rich basis for developing students’ problem solving and decision making skills will be provided.
In order to strengthen participants' analytical skills, the course also provides: a) training in the critical assessment and use of micro- and macro-economic data, b) the analysis of urban economic activity and the application of economic criteria to urban projects. The main learning goals are the following: a) to use simple empirical tools of economic analysis and evaluation, b) to articulate a critical analysis of competing viewpoints and cooperative assessments between the actors involved, and c) to integrate various analytic steps into some simple overall assessments of the relationship between markets and policy that relies on sound principles and is well argued. Mostly regarding the goal sub letter c), students will be expected to actively participate and make presentations.

L. Gaeta, Il mercato immobiliare. Beni, diritti, valori, Carocci, 2009.
Fausto Curti, Lo scambio leale. Negoziazione urbanistica e offerta privata di spazi e servizi pubblici, Officina, 2006.

The course program is composed of three sections.
1) History of archaeological restoration culture, with specific focus on Rome (Roman Forum, Palatine Hill, Imperial Fora). The lectures aim to highlight the history of changes and re-use which have led to the loss of the original architectural identity up to the time of its intentional “re-creation”, starting from the second half of the Eighteenth Century. This new culture and its different outcomes developed during the last two centuries will be analyzed: excavations, restorations, reconstructions, anastylosis and enhancement projects.
2) Lectures on the restoration culture relating to its interdisciplinary point of view.
3) Small group activities (critical analysis on design projects strictly related to cultural heritage).

Section 1
- I. Insolera, Roma moderna. Un secolo di storia urbanistica 1870-1970, Roma 1962.
- R. Krautheimer, Roma. Profilo di una città, 312-1308, Roma 1981 (1° ed. 1980).
- I. Insolera-F. Perego, Archeologia e città. Storia moderna dei Fori di Roma, Bari 1983.
- M. Jonsson, La cura dei monumenti alle origini. Restauro e scavo di monumenti antichi a Roma 1800-1830, Stockholm 1986.
- S. Settis, Continuità, distanza, conoscenza. Tre usi dell'antico, in S. Settis (a cura di), Memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana, vol. III, Dalla tradizione all'archeologia, Torino 1986, pp. 373-486.
- S. Casiello, Problemi di conservazione e restauro nei primi decenni dell’Ottocento, in Id. (a cura di), Restauro tra metamorfosi e teorie, Napoli 1992.
- E. Pallottino, Roma 1846-1878: restauro di monumenti antichi tra rappezzi mimetici e ricostruzioni semplificate, in Ricerche di Storia dell'arte, 52, 1994, pp.69-71.
- P. D'Orsi, Roma: Pantheon, Portico degli Dei Consenti, Colosseo. Tre monumenti antichi restaurati a metà Ottocento, in Ricerche di Storia dell'arte, 52, 1994, pp.72-77.
- E. Pallottino, Restauro e ricostruzione dell'antico, dopo le esperienze del Governatorato di Roma e i loro precedenti ottocenteschi, in L. Prisco (a cura), Architettura moderna a Roma e nel Lazio, 1920-1945. Conoscenza e tutela, Roma 1996, pp. 55-62.
- S. Casiello (ed.), Verso una storia del restauro. Dall'età classica al primo Ottocento, Firenze 2008.
- P. Porretta, Antonio Muñoz e via dei Fori Imperiali a Roma, in E. Pallottino (ed.), Architetti e archeologi costruttori d’identità, in Ricerche di Storia dell’arte, 95, 2008, pp. 30-43.

Sections 2 e 3
- A. Ricci, Attorno alla nuda pietra. Archeologia e città tra identità e progetto, Roma 2006.
- E. Pallottino (ed.), Architetti e archeologi costruttori d’identità, in Ricerche di Storia dell’arte, 95, 2008, pp. 30-43.
- D. Manacorda, R. Santangeli Valenzani, L. Franciosini, E. Pallottino, S. Picciola, A. Carlini, P. Porretta (eds.), Arch.it.arch, dialoghi di archeologia e architettura, seminari 2005|2006, Roma 2009.
- E. Pallottino (ed.), Roma, Torre dei Conti. Ricerca, formazione, progetto, in Ricerche di Storia dell'arte, n. 108, 2012.
- P. Porretta, L'invenzione moderna del paesaggio antico della Banditaccia. Raniero Mengarelli a Cerveteri, Roma 2019.

Slides will be available to all students.
Further bibliographical references will be suggested during the course.

Cultural Heritage and regionalist architecture
From Modernism to the revival of Medieval architecture: history, studies and projects. Gustavo Giovannoni: urban restoration and decentralization of the residential neighbourhoods. It is possible to compare Giovannoni’s thoughts and interventions in the architectural field to interpret various aspects of his ideology on the ideal purpose and physical structure of the city. The debate on the “ambientismo” – fuelled by architects and honorary fellows, led by Giovannoni and the Associazione Artistica fra i Cultori di Architettura – recognise the historical architecture, as well as the picturesque feeling inherent the historical urban pattern, as a possible model both to thin out the urban pattern for a healthiness reason and to decentralize new residential districts. Therefore, the “ambientista” approach is clearly influenced by the urban principles of Camillo Sitte, Charles Buls and Joseph Stübben and by the idea of garden city of Ebenezer Howard and Raymond Unwin. Hence, between the 1910s and the 1920s, the ambientismo became the core principle of the urban and architectural project, identifying and reinterpreting the artistic and environmental features typical of each country, while considering the instances of modern building. It is possible to find this cultural orientation in various projects in Rome, such as San Saba, Aniene’s garden city in Montesacro, Ostia Nuova, the garden neighbourhood of Garbatella; all these projects were planned following Giovannoni’s theories and taking care of the relationship between “Vecchie città ed edilizia nuova”.

- P. MARCONI, "Il restauro architettonico. Mentalità, ideologie, pratiche", in "Storia dell'architettura italiana. Il secondo Novecento", a cura di F. dal Co, Electa, Milano, 1997, pp. 368-391
- G. CIUCCI, G. MURATORE [a cura di], "Storia dell’architettura italiana - Il primo Novecento", Electa, Milano 2004, in particolare G. MURATORE, "Uno sperimentalismo eclettico", pp. 10-37; G. ZUCCONI, "Gli anni dieci tra riscoperte regionali e aperture internazionali", pp. 38-55; G. MURATORE, "Edilizia e architetti a Roma negli anni venti", pp. 74-99; S. PORETTI, "Modernismi e autarchia", pp. 442-476.
- P. MARCONI, "Il recupero della bellezza", Skira, Milano 2005, in particolare, "L’architettura regionalista e il restauro come replica", pp. 8-27.
- F.R. STABILE, in F.R. STABILE, M. ZAMPILLI, C. CORTESI [a cura di], "Centri storici minori. Progetti per il recupero della bellezza", Gangemi editore, Roma 2009.
- F.R. STABILE, "La Garbatella a Roma. Architettura e regionalismo", Editrice Librerie Dedalo, Roma 2012, pp. 47-66.
- G. BONACCORSO, F. MOSCHINI (a cura di), Gustavo Giovannoni e l’architetto integrale, Atti del convegno internazionale Accademia Nazionale di San Luca 25-27 novembre 2015, Roma 2019.

• Physical and mechanical properties of wood, defects and grading methods, anisotropy and wood-water relationships, durability, biodegradation and preservation. Inspection and diagnosis on existing buildings.
• Wood and wood products for structural use.
• Structural types. Multi-storey buildings with a timber structure, structural behavior and design criteria. Sustainability and short supply chain. Case studies of building construction.
• Design and verification (ULS and SLS) of structural elements and joints.
• Fire and earthquake resistance. Scientific research on wooden buildings: experimental tests and experiences carried out.
• Timber elements on masonry buildings: consolidation and structural retrofitting.

1. Linee guida per l’edilizia in legno in Toscana – AA.VV. Regione Toscana 2009.
2. Powerpoint slides of lectures
3. Book "Appunti per le Costruzioni in Legno: normativa, progettazione e buone pratiche di cantiere"
4. Desing manuals
5. Reference standards (NTC 2018 and Circolare, Eurocode 5, CNR-DT 206: 2018, scientific paper on the new version of Eurocode 8)

Thinking about heritage is thinking about time, identity, memory and storytelling.
Landscape coincides with these values, it can be considered as the connective tissue: a memories repository of the material and immaterial values.
In order to develop an experience of contemporary landscape and physical heritage we have to conduct a multidisciplinary analysis, both direct and indirect.
Landscape and its history can be investigated through the expressions of tangible and intangible culture, through the study of visible and invisible data.
Indirect and regressive analysis (archival studies, topography, geomorphology, historical and modern maps, iconography, etc.) will be integrated with the investigation on field, with the intention to recognize, distinguish, identify, and measure the place.
The different layers, which have constantly interacted through the historical development, will be identified, studied and described by students in different ways such as mapping, storytelling collection, archival research etc.
Diachronic analysis of the different layers will be essential to identify and distinguish shapes and permanent values compared to the structural changes introduced in the contemporary physical environment
From this analysis we will begin the representation and interpretation of the landscape aiming at critically examining and synthesizing archaeological and urban artefacts, matching them with other memories of human experience in the urban landscape.

L.Benevolo, (1977) Roma oggi, Roma-Bari
R.Funiciello, A.Praturlon, G.Giordano (2008): La geologia di Roma dal centro storico alla periferia. Memorie descrittive della carta geologica d’Italia, Firenze, S.EL.CA.
P.Handke, Canto della Durata, Einaudi Milano, 1995.
I.Insolera, (1965): Roma. Immagini e realtà dal X al XX secolo, Roma-Bari 1965 (Grandi opere. Le città nella storia d’Italia).
R.Lanciani, (1988): Forma Urbis Romae.
S.Muratori, R.Bollati, S.Bollati, G.Marinucci (1963): Studi per una operante storia urbana di Roma, Roma, Centro Studi di Storia Urbanistica, 1963.
L.Quaroni (1975), Immagine di Roma, Laterza
P.O.Rossi, (2009): Roma. Guida all’architettura moderna. 1909-2000, Roma-Bari.
S.Schama,(2004): Landscape and memory, Harper Perennial.

With a view on climate change but also on all other traces we leave behind on earth as humans, architecture plays a significant role. On the one hand, architecture and the construction sector account for 38% of the total global CO2 emissions and the extraction of raw materials changes entire landscapes for all time. On the other hand, architecture also determines how we behave on earth and is the interface between us and the natural world.
How does architecture contribute to a new age of climate consciousness?
In the future, more areas of everyday life could take place outdoors again; exposure to seasonal weather has the potential to create a new awareness of the environment and at the same time reduce the basic need for architecture. Our behaviour could adapt to the climatic conditions and lead to new types of urbanism in synergy with global and local natural processes.
For this “Learning from abroad” studio, we will leave the surface of the earth behind to create a new type of co-housing structure which is elevated from the ground as a new architectural model for a near future of material shortage and environmental consciousness. Each proposal will become a cell in the larger structure, while we experiment with lightweight materials in the spirit of Frei Otto, Yona Friedmann and Buckminster Fuller. As a purely physical experience, our studio will be material based, experimental and free. We will form groups of two who will be asked to develop own ideas on future structures through testing and prototyping. Throughout the semester, we will develop skills and knowledge in tensile membrane structures. Together, we create a project through direct communication, elaboration and joined forces. Just like with any experiment, the final result is undefined and open-ended.

Rose, S. (1969). Wizard the Dome: R. Buckmister Füller. Designer for the future. Brown&Company, Boston (USA).
Fiedman, Y.; Orazi, M. (2015). Yona Fiedman. The Diluition of Architecture. Park Books, Zürich (CH).
Vrachlioris, G.; Kleinnmanns, J.; Kunz, M.; Kunz, P. (2017). (edited by) Frei Otto: Thinking by Modeling. Spector Books, Leipzig (D).

The course of History of Architecture and Methods of Analysis aims at critically retracing the composition process - either ideological, methodical or procedural- at the basis of every architecture. Lessons in chronological sequence, from the Italian Quattrocento to the XX century, are dedicated to masterworks or lesser known architectures, discussing the sources required by selected "history making" processes.
This section of the course aims at presenting a series of different historical analysis and interpretations, considered of significant value with respect to the scientific background of the author, to her/his methods of investigations, to research goals, patronage and chronological context. Written sources, such as texts and visual representations, as well as built architectures and urban complexes, are discussed in a critical perspective. A special focus is dedicated to the use of "diagrams" in architectural representations.

Rafael Moneo, La solitudine degli edifici e altri scritti, Allemandi, Torino, 1999 (*).
Joan Ockman (ed.), Architecture, culture: 1943-1968, Rizzoli, New York, 1993.
John Summerson, Il linguaggio classico dell’Architettura, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino, 1970.
Manfredo Tafuri, Progetto e utopia, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1973.

The proposed training activity is divided into a common part, of an interdisciplinary cut, and a part of further study of a disciplinary cut, differentiated in the different Departments and courses of study, as described below.
The common part consists of 18 2-hour lessons on the 2030 Agenda (one general and introductory, plus one for each of the 17 Agenda objectives), supplemented by the study of the text of the 2030 Agenda, by the in-depth readings indicated by the speakers and tutoring of the teachers in charge of each Department.
The lessons, except for any exceptions, will be entrusted to an external and an internal speaker who discuss the topic of the lesson.
The specific part will consist of a guided study, differentiated in the different Departments and oriented to some of the topics of the 2030 Agenda; it will be disciplinary in nature, consistent with the courses of study of the students of the Departments involved and will be based on the specific SSDs of the teachers who manage the tutoring, the final test and the exam report.
The final exam can take different modalities (oral exam, written exam, term papers) and you can think about forms of active involvement of the students (interviews, questionnaires, videos, works, projects, ...), which can be connected to the final exam.
In addition to Prof. Tonelli, coordinator, the professors Marrone, Filpa, Ombuen will be collaborators for the course.

 Text of the 2030 agenda
 e-learnirg teaching module prepared by Asvis and related handouts
 Selection of readings recommended by the speakers of the seminar cycle, guided by the teachers in charge
 Bibliography on in-depth topics

The class aims at building awareness on the relationship between object oriented modeling and a tectonic approach to design. Students are exposed to te full range of digital innovation applied to architectural design, from simulation, to numeric fabrication, to operation, through the presentation of several examples of contemporary design, including a historical perspective on its evolution in the past 30 years. But all along the class students will also be constantly using BIM software directly, since the class thinks direct experience on software a crucial aspect of a full and sincere awareness on the real meaning of digital culture.

Stefano Converso, SHoP Architects. Collaborazioni costruttive in digitale,
Collana IT Revolution in Architettura, Edilstampa, Roma, 2008

Maurizio Gargano, Forma e materia. Ratiocinatio e Fabrica nell’architettura dell’età moderna,
Officina edizioni, Roma, 2007

This course covers a temporal space between the last decade of the XIX century and the end of the XX century and gets through the complexity of historical tangles, which carried out to the birth of the modern forms and their rise. It is considered as a wide-ranging space that comprises not only the works of the innovative architects, bound up with the avant-garde or with the great ideals (like the design of machinery or the organicism), but also the works sometimes revolutionary that refers to the vernacular tradition.
This course is divided into different lines: the great, general themes (the historical contest, the programmes, the ideas, Modern and Tradition); the great figures of architects; the philology and constructive analysis of works (both realized and only planned) and the historiographical interpretations.

Sigfried Giedion, Space,Time and Architecture, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,1954.
William J. R. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900, London: Phaidon Press,1996.
Elie G. Haddad, David Rifkind (ed.), A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture:1960-2010,Oxford: Routledge, 2014.

This course aims at providing a critical approach towards the “changing ideals” of contemporary architecture, starting from the opposing forces of the notions of classical and modern during the Age of Enlightenment. Through descriptions of different historical and geographical contexts, a selected series of masterworks from XIX to XX Century will be discussed in terms of form, structure, functions, specifically considering how they have contributed to past and contemporary architectural debate.

R. Middleton, D. Watkin, Neoclassical and Nineteenth Century Architecture , New York 1987
W. Curtis, Modern Architecture since 1900, London 1996
N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A Dictionary of Architecture, London 1975
W. Benjamin, L’opera d’arte nell’epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica, Torino 1966 (1936)
N. Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Movement, London 1936
M. Tafuri, Progetto e utopia, Roma-Bari 1973
P. Bürger, Theory of the Avant-Garde 1974
P.R. Banham, Megastructures. Urban futures for recent past, 1976
C. Rowe, Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays 1976
M. Tafuri, La sfera e il labirinto, Torino 1980
F. Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism , 1991
M. Baxandall, Patterns of Intention, 1985
J. Ackerman, Distance Points, Milano 2001 (1991)