TEORIE E PRATICHE DELLA PROGETTAZIONE

Module TEORIA E PROGETTO DEL PAESAGGIO

The course aims to provide the conceptual and operational tools to introduce students to landscape design. The objective is to make students understand its complexity, orienting them towards a design approach aimed at deciphering and controlling the relationships, both material and immaterial, between man and nature in space and time. Students will have to learn how to observe and interpret the characteristics of the landscape, in order to be able to shape new configurations capable of improving the frameworks of life by establishing dialogues between the components, with the freedom to make continuous changes of scale, favouring the integration between the reflections matured at different observation distances.
The skills acquired at the end of the course will be
- ability to critically interpret the main contemporary projects of open spaces, parks and gardens, built on basic knowledge of the historical evolution of landscape architecture;
- ability to read and analyse the landscape system in its material and intangible complexity as well as recognising useful elements for design purposes
- comprehension of the salient aspects of the landscape architecture design, ability to govern its initial phases (analysis, concept, master plan guidelines) and to elaborate unconventional graphic renderings (collage, maquette, etc.) appropriate to the representation techniques proper to the discipline.

The teaching is divided into three parts, conducted in an integrated manner for the two modules. Theoretical lessons and in-depth studies take place in the classroom or library, as do round-table discussions on assigned readings and practical activities related to design exercises. To complete the teaching path, there will be field trips and guided tours to sites of particular landscape interest and subject to in-depth study, as well as site visits as part of the design exercises. 

Specifically, the three parts are:

• frontal lessons
  
• readings and round table discussions; educational visits; field trips
  
• Design exercises
  

A strong knowledge of the history of architecture and having actively attended  (carrying out the project) the Architecture and Architectural Composition Course and Workshop I is required.

Class attendance is mandatory. In order to sit the final examination, it is necessary to have attended 70% (50% for working students) of the lecture hours.

The contents of the course, integrated with those of the complementary module of Theories and Practices of the Architectural Project, start from a conceptual framework on the theme of landscape in which the boundaries and overlaps of the disciplines involved are established, to arrive at a definition of the main theoretical and operational references of the landscape project through the reading and critical analysis of exemplary works. 
The theoretical lessons unfold along a conceptual path that links the key concepts of "landscape", "garden" and "public park", to finally focus on the monographic theme.

The specific theme of the design exercise is “The Garden of the Anthropocene.” In particular, this year will explore the theme of the forest as a paradigm of a new relationship between humans and nature based on symbiotic eco-social relationships between different beings that interrelate and support each other in more-than-human communities. The guided immersive-sensitive walk-through will be the working method for understanding disturbed places that are to be subjected to new care actions, which may include the creation of shelters, observatories, watchtowers, and small responsible interventions capable of reactivating listening to the place and responding to its fragility.

The exercise will take the form of an intensive workshop.

ATRIPALDI A. M. (a cura di), Il paesaggio: teoria pratica e progetto. Esperienze francesi contemporanee. Gangemi Editore Roma 2007.
ATRIPALDI A. M., CALVAGNA S. (a cura di), Le forme del paesaggio, dall’Etna agli Iblei. Anabiblo Roma 2012.
CALVAGNA S. , Oltre l’asse. La dimensione paesaggistica del progetto urbano tra la Défense e la Senna. Anabiblo Roma 2012.
CLEMENT G., Breve storia del giardino. Quodlibet Macerata 2012.
CLEMENT G., Manifesto del terzo paesaggio, Quodlibet Macerata 2004.
CORTESI I., Il parco pubblico, paesaggi 1985-2000, Federico Motta Editore Milano 2000.
GRIMAL P., L'arte dei giardini. Una breve storia, Donzelli Editore, Roma 2000.
PANZINI F., Progettare la natura. Architettura del paesaggio e dei giardini dalle origini all’epoca contemporanea, Zanichelli Bologna 2005.
ROGER A. , Breve trattato sul paesaggio. Sellerio Editore Palermo 2009.
Lotus n. 87 e 150
Lotus Navigator n. 2 e 5

Additional and specific bibliographical references, digital materials and online resources will be provided during the lectures and classroom project work.

Discussion of the work produced during the exercises and debate on the theoretical topics discussed in class.