DISEGNO DELL'ARCHITETTURA II E LABORATORIO DI DISEGNO DELL'ARCHITETTURA IIModule DISEGNO DELL'ARCHITETTURA II
Academic Year 2026/2027 - Teacher: MARIATERESA GALIZIAExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to provide the methodological and practical tools for interpreting, surveying and representing architecture,
understood in its broadest sense. Through a programme that combines theoretical study with practical exercises, students will acquire the skills necessary to analyse, graphically depict and communicate existing historic architecture.
The knowledge acquired during the course will be applied in the Architectural Drawing Workshop II, which involves the surveying of
historic buildings using both traditional (direct surveying) and digital methods.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
· Recognise and understand, through structured surveying, the physical and spatial characteristics of an architectural, urban and environmental context, taking into account both its natural and man-made components. structured surveying, the physical and spatial characteristics of an architectural, urban and environmental context, taking into account both its natural and man-made components.
· Apply their knowledge and understanding through independent documentary research, using bibliographic and archival sources to situate the work within its historical, socio-economic and territorial context.
- Manage integrated surveying methodologies, translating metric and geometric data into graphical outputs at the various levels of detail required by the discipline. metric and geometric data into graphical outputs at the various levels of detail required by the discipline.
· Independent judgement: To develop a thoughtful approach to design and restoration, based on a critical analysis of architecture and its transformations over time, and through the production of technical drawings
Communication skills: students will acquire the ability to convey what they have learnt by drafting technical reports and, whilst working in groups with colleagues and through oral presentations, by critically analysing architecture and its transformations over time and by producing technical drawings
The course content is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, in particular
Goals: 4. Quality education; 9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure; 11. Sustainable cities and communities; 12. Responsible consumption and production; 15. Life on Land
Course Structure
Required Prerequisites
Students must have passed the Disegno dell'architettura 1 e Laboratorio di Disegno dell'architettura examinations.
It is also recommended that students attend the History of Architecture 1 course.
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
Part One: Drawing as a Language and Formal Analysis
The first phase of the course – comprising theoretical lectures and practical exercises – explores the educational value of drawing as a means of expression, composition and communication.
- From idea to design: Analysis of the creative process through sketching and the graphic codes of architecture.
- Descriptive geometry and codification: Study of perspective (central and accidental) and the theory of shadows.
- Morphological and distributional elements: Representation of vertical circulation elements (double-flight staircases and spiral staircases).
- Stylistic language: Study of the architectural order as a tool for interpreting, understanding and graphically rendering the stylistic and formal components of a building.
·- The geometry underlying architecture: geometric matrices, metric and proportional analyses, and harmonic relationships.
Part Two: Surveying as a Tool for Historical and Critical Understanding
The second phase – based on theoretical lectures, seminars and on-site practical sessions – is aimed at gaining an in-depth understanding of the built architectural heritage. Surveying is understood as a tool for revealing the geometric-dimensional, morphological-spatial and stylistic-compositional characteristics of the building, situated within its social, environmental and cultural context. The topics covered include:
Integrated surveying methodologies: Practical learning of direct, instrumental and photogrammetric surveying techniques for the observation and interpretation of the existing built environment.
· Historical and documentary research: Integration of metric data with bibliographic and archival research, which is essential for identifying the phases of evolution, transformation and change that architecture has undergone over time.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Il Disegno come strumento di lettura, di analisi e di comunicazione. | Dispense su Teams; Dispense su Teams; Purini F., Una lezione sul disegno. Gangemi, Roma 1996. |
| 2 | Il Disegno iconico-espressivo | Dispense su Teams; |
| 3 | Il Disegno di progetto, come strumento di analisi, di verifica, di prefigurazione della realtà e di comunicazione, dall’idea alla realtà. Il disegno dei maestri. | Dispense su STUDIUM; Roberto de Rubertis, Il disegno dell’Architettura, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma 1994 |
| 4 | Il disegno a mano libera e il disegno dal vero | Colistra D., Il disegno a mano libera per la conoscenza e per il progetto, Aracne Editrice, Roma - Ita, 2012, ISBN: 978-88-548-5218-1 Di Guardo D., Il disegno a mano libera come primo atto della composizione architettonica, Aracne Editrice, Roma 2008 P |
| 5 | Convenzioni e normative grafiche. Norme unificate del Disegno dell’Architettura. Le scale metriche di rappresentazione. | Dispense su Team;U.N.I., Norme per il disegno tecnico. Edilizi De Rubertis R., Il Disegno dell'Architettura, N.I.S., Roma 1994; Docci M., Teoria e pratica del disegno, Ed. Laterza, Bari 1996 |
| 6 | Strutture di collegamento: le scale, classificazione e tipologia. | Dispense su Team; AA. VV., Il manuale dell'architetto, ed. CNR, Roma 1962 (edizioni successive); AA. VV., Elementi costruttivi nell’edilizia - Morfologia e disegno, ed. C.U.E.N.; Andreozzi L., Palumbo G.,Restuccia F., Taibi G., I modelli grafici ... |
| 7 | Proiezioni centrali: Prospettiva a quadro verticale, prospettiva a quadro orizzontale (aerea e iposcopica), prospettiva a quadro inclinato | Dispense su Team; Docci M., Migliari R., Scienza della rappresentazione. Fondamenti e applicazioni della geometria descrittiva, Ed. NIS, Urbino 1992; Sgrosso A., La rappresentazione geometrica dell’architettura,Torino,1996 |
| 8 | Teoria delle ombre: le ombre nel metodo di Monge, in assonometria | Dispense su Team; A. Sgrosso, La rappresentazione geometrica dell’architettura,Torino,1996 |
| 9 | L’evoluzione della forma architettonica secondo la Triade Vitruviana - L’ordine architettonico: modulo, proporzionamento, schematizzazione. Le modanature: costruzioni geometriche | Dispense su Team; Dispense su Team; M. Docci, D. Maestri, Manuale di rilevamento architettonico e urbano, Nuova edizione ampliata, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009 Riccardo Migliari, Il disegno degli ordini e il rilievo dell’architettura classica: Cinque Pez |
| 10 | La geometria sottesa all’architettura: le matrici geometriche, le analisi metriche e proporzionali, i rapporti armonici. | Dotto E., Il disegno degli ovali armonici, Catania 2002 Dotto E., Il tracciamento delle curve spiraliformi, Ariccia 2016 Quaroni L., Progettare un edificio, Roma 1996 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The examination is individual and may be taken ONLY after the completion and submission of the ‘ruler and set square’ drawings and the CAD survey project documents. Interim deadlines will be set for the submission of these documents.
The examination consists of an oral interview. During the interview, the student will be asked to solve and/or explain, using appropriate technical terminology and the graphic language of drawing (freehand), certain theoretical or practical aspects relating to the lectures and the drawings produced during the Drawing II course. The interview will also include a discussion of the survey drawings and the theoretical concepts underpinning the practical work carried out during the workshop.
The assessment will take into account the student’s ability to use surveying methods appropriate to the project’s objectives; their proficiency in correctly producing a survey or design drawing to the appropriate scales; and their ability to read and interpret the graphical representation of surfaces in space.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Accidental perspective
UNI standard and codified language
Scales of representation and schematisation
Connecting elements: spiral staircases
Underlying geometry: the golden ratio
Vitruvian triad