Architecture and Architectural Composition III and LAB

Module LABORATORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION III

 With a view to completing the course of the degree course, the topics of architecture competitions (editing and participation), information sources (network, publicity and events such as exhibitions, conferences, etc.) and the world of contemporary work will be addressed. The students will be called to write the aforementioned essays, through group exercises in which they will participate in the construction of the program in a logic of inclusive teaching. In the final part of the course students will be asked to carry out a project on an urban scale with a multi-scale approach. The proposed methodology will particularly emphasize the expressive aspects of architectural and morphological language, focusing on contemporary themes of inclusivity, environmental sustainability, and social sustainability. Both during the exercises and throughout the design process, sustainability profiles will also be addressed in relation to climate change.

The program includes theoretical lessons on the evolution of architectural language and in particular on the current profiles of architecture. At the same time monographic exercises will be carried out on the current themes of smart cities, technology parks and expo dubai 2020 lasting 2/3 weeks each. More specifically, students will be involved in the construction of the program through exercises. These last ones will be preceded by specific introductory lessons and by the definition of a methodology for carrying them out. The last part of the course is dedicated to the preparation of a complex architecture project on an area of ​​Catania on the urban scale within an overall view of the city. A multiscalar approach will be required which, starting from the masterplan, will deepen all the project scales also through virtual representation. 

If the teaching is conducted in a mixed or distance mode, the necessary variations may be introduced compared to what was previously stated, in order to comply with the planned program as reported in the syllabus.

It is essential to attend the theoretical lessons that are functional to carrying out the exercises. It is also essential to follow the lessons on the evolution of language for the development of the annual paper and the sharing of the course objectives.

It is essential to attend the theoretical lessons that are functional to carrying out the exercises. It is also essential to follow the lessons on the evolution of language for the development of the annual paper and the sharing of the course objectives.

The course aims to provide the tools for understanding the disciplinary debate and contemporary architectural production useful to outline the disciplinary status of reference. Therefore the contents of the course will cover some introductory lessons on terminology, on the definitions of architecture and on the complex relationships between art and architecture, between philosophical thought and architecture and more generally on the influence of other cultural meanings on architecture. In the perspective mentioned above to reconstruct the debate, the theoretical lessons will focus on the modern path of architecture starting from the Enlightenment and up to our regions highlight all the significant passages of the relationship between society and the expressive language of architecture up to the architectural currents of the 30s. years, from deconstructivism to minumalism from the language of ecology to that of smart cities. The theoretical treatment of the program, which has as its primary theme the architectural project will be deepened through the exercises, the moment in which the student will face real contexts and problems. The projects will cover complex urban topics and areas for the simultaneous presence of multiple themes, from architecture to the landscape to that of public space and mobility, from infrastructure to cultural facilities, from new technologies to sustainability.

Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel, La città di domani, come le reti stanno cambiando il futuro, Passaggi Einaudi, 2017

Dell'Osso Riccardo, Il percorso dell’architettura moderna, Maggioli, Rimini 2012;

Dell'Osso Riccardo, Il linguaggio dell’architettura contemporanea, Maggioli, Rimini 2012;

Dell'Osso Riccardo e Giancarlo Tancredi. NEXT MIlano Urban Regeneratio. Maggioli. Rimini.2023;

Dell'Osso Riccardo, Roncaglia 12_The architecture of contemporary offices in the milanese context, Biblion Edizioni, Milano 2024;

Valentina Gianfrate, Danila Longo, Urban micro-design. Tecnologie integrate, adattabilità e qualità degli spazi pubblici, Franco Angeli, 2017

Dell'Osso Riccardo, Spazi pubblici contemporanei, Maggioli, Rimini 2014;

Dell'Osso Riccardo, Architettura costruttivista, Maggioli, Rimini 2020;

Dell'Osso Riccardo, Teoria, progetto e architettura, Maggioli, Rimini 2020;

Dell'Osso Riccardo, Energy park, Maggioli, Rimini 2016;

Dell'Osso Riccardo, Expo da Londra 1851 a Shanghai 2010 verso Milano 2015, Maggioli, Rimini 2008;

Carlo Ratti, Smart city smart citizen, Egea 2013

Dell’Osso R. (a cura di), Brindisi città d’acqua, Maggioli, Rimini 2008;

During the course, continuous assessments of learning will be conducted during the presentations by students of the monographic and project exercises in class, which will last 2/3 weeks in order to suggest integrations and individual deepening.

At the end of the course, the exams according to the schedule published on the department's website will focus on theoretical lectures, course bibliography, exercise themes, and the annual theme project, which includes the analytical part, the drafting of the master plan, plans, elevations, sections, and construction details at appropriate scales. 

The project must also be represented with videos and renders.

The transition from classical to modern in architecture.

The institution of the EXPO: history, evolution, editions, and significant pavilions.

The influence of other arts on architecture in the early twentieth century.

The roots of modern architecture.

The Enlightenment architects.

Constructivism.

Modern architects.

Theoretical thinking in architecture.

Deconstructivist architecture.

Minimalism.

The language of sustainability and ecology.

The language of smart cities and technology parks.