B3350 - Iconic and Figurative Characters of the Landscape

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to introduce the student to the critical analysis of the iconic and figurative components that define the character of landscape architecture.

The course is proposed as a moment of critical and operational synthesis on the knowledge necessary for the development of an architectural project, capable of dealing with the formal, iconic and functional complexity of the territory.

At the end of the course the student knows the basic tools for the iconic and figurative reading of the landscape in order to control the insertion of the project into the context in a dialectical and critical way.

Course contents

The "Architecture, Museum, Image" graduate laboratory (C. I. 16 CFU, 192 hours) consists of: A) the characterizing teaching of Architectural and Urban Composition (8 CFU, 96 hours); B) a teaching of Theories and techniques of architectural composition (4 CFU, 48 hours); C) a teaching of Forms and techniques of architectural structures (2 CFU, 24 hours); D) a teaching of Iconic and figurative characters of landscape architecture (2 CFU, 24 hours).

Course program Iconic and figurative characters of landscape architecture (2 CFU, 24 hours) proposes a series of lessons aimed at clarifying the character of the landscape according to a dual perspective - iconic and figurative - as a synthesis between perceived and usable reality through aesthetic contemplation and socio-political space for which the technical-design intervention is intended.

The characteristic physiognomy of the landscape constitutes a litmus test capable of revealing both the permanence and the changes that characterize the complex identity of the territories.

The iconic and figurative characters of landscape architecture define and manifest the aesthetic and necessary relationships that man has established with the territory through his artifices. Indeed, the character of landscape architecture constitutes an alternative channel for investigating and rethinking the links between design and territory, between culture and nature.

The aim of the course is to introduce the student to the critical analysis of the landscape and of the iconic and figurative elements that constitute it in relation to the design intervention.

Readings/Bibliography

 Jellicoe. L’architettura del paesaggio, Edizioni di Comunità, Milano, 1969. [I Ed. Londra 1960]

- Annalisa Maniglio Calcagno. Architettura del Paesaggio. Evoluzione storica, Franco Angeli, Milano 2006. [I Ed. Bologna 1983]

- L’architettura dei giardini d’occidente. Dal rinascimento al novecento. A cura di Monique Mosser e Georges Teyssot, Electa, Milano 1990.

- Lotus internazionale n. 30. Parchi urbani, Milano 1981/I.

- Giulio G. Rizzo: Il giardino privato di Roberto Burle Marx: Il Sìtio. Sessant'anni dalla fondazione. Cent'anni dalla nascita di Roberto Burle Marx, Roma, Gangemi Editore 2009.

- Carlo Tosco. Petrarca: paesaggi, città, architettura, Quodlibet, Macerata 2011.

- Clément G., Manifesto del Terzo Paesaggio, Quolibet, 2014

- Marco Trisciuoglio. L’architetto del paesaggio. Archeologia di un’idea, casa editrice Leo S. Olschki, Firenze 2018

Further and more specific bibliographical references will be provided during the course. Please refer also to the bibliography indicated for the course of "Architectural Composition IV" (A - B).

Teaching methods

The lab activity will combine lectures and analytical-critical reading exercises on study cases.

Assessment methods

The "Architecture, Museum, Image" graduate laboratory (C. I. 16 CFU, 192 hours) consists of: A) the characterizing teaching of Architectural and Urban Composition (8 CFU, 96 hours); B) a teaching of Theories and techniques of architectural composition (4 CFU, 48 hours); C) a teaching of Forms and techniques of architectural structures (2 CFU, 24 hours); D) a course in Landscape Aesthetics and Thought Figures (2 CFU, 24 hours).

The suitability test of the "Architecture, Museum, Image" degree laboratory includes verification of learning of the contents of all the courses that comprise it and takes place in a single exam.

Teaching tools

Frontal lessons through the projection of slides, audio and / or video reproductions. The teaching material presented in class will be made available to the student in electronic format via a digital platform, or delivered directly to the classroom, according to the methods that will be indicated at the beginning of the laboratory.

The laboratory has its own space for classroom exercises. Teaching support: model laboratory, PC, digital video projector, audiovisual tools and products, printers and plotters.

Office hours

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