Class Urban Design I

Understanding and analyzing data from other disciplines as a fundamental part of city and landscape study;

Recognition of urban intervention as a complex and interdisciplinary process;

Understanding of urban design as interpretation of the city and landscape where architecture is formed and developed.

1. Elements of Urban Analysis:

1.1. Growth and transformation phenomena: modes of growth; scale of phenomena; juxtaposition and conflicts; regulatory elements; notions of limit; structure changes; densifications;

2. Strokes and installments:

2.1. Traditional geography and functionalist approach;

2.2. Territorialized approach to urban space;

2.3. Center and outskirts, city and surroundings;

3. Typologies:

3.1. Classification problems;

3.2. Analytical typology and generative typology;

3.3. Of the type consecrated to the standard plant;

4. Building typology / urban morphology:

4.1. The Italian School and Methodological typological analysis.

5. Urban landscape and picturesque analysis:

5.1. Sequential analysis. Lynch and Cullen.

6. The practice of urban space:

6.1. Social practice and space practice;

7. Urban Structures:

7.1. The built space;

7.3. Urban structures.

8. Urban Architecture, Aldo Rossi, Leon Krier and the New Urbanism Charter

1. Establishment of an object/territory of analysis.
2. Critical application of the analytical model.
3.  Production of the work in group by the students.
4. Summary, discussion and debate.
5. Development based on previously identified and debated urban facts.
6. Presentation and discussion.
7. Evaluation: group work - 80%;P
8. Participation, attendance and interest - 20%.

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