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Syllabus and Schedule
Syllabus and Schedule
(CAMPUS PIACENZA)
LAUREA MAGISTRALE IN SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN
MONOGRAPHIC COURSE:
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE IN THE CONTEMPORARY AGE
2017-2018 SYLLABUS
Objectives.
- Use the big city as the node that connects contemporary architecture and landscape.
- Convey a complex vision of history, avoiding simplifications and lineal readings.
- Insert the contemporary architecture and landscape in its social, political, cultural and
productive context.
- Introduce the student in the most advance topics of the contemporary theory of architecture,
city and landscape.
- Introduce the student in the research techniques on architecture.
- Use innovative learning systems (Flipped and Blended Learning).
Outcomes.
- Ability for architectural critic.
- Ability to work in groups as well as with personal autonomy.
- Ability to manage in public debates.
- Ability in research techniques.
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3.- LECTURES.
B2.- Megalopolitan landscapes. The garden city criticism: Doxiadis, McHarg. A different
approach, the vernacular: Rudofsky, Turner, Alexander.
B3.- London. Suburban London: the New Towns of the Greater London Plan. Central London:
the failure of the Slum Clearance programs. Architecture: from Brutalism to technological
utopias.
B4.- Los Angeles. The roots of the suburban model: from trams to cars. The post-war period:
the construction of the first American city. The architecture of Suburbia: from mail-order
buildings to Case Study Houses.
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4.- DIDACTIC FORMATS.
Lectures will relate to the content of the course and will be given by the teacher. There are also four
scheduled occasional lectures that could be given by students, professors or invited guests.
Seminars will be devoted to study the concept of Creative City. The students will work in groups. In
total there will be 12 groups, that will be divided in three sets of 4 groups, each one working in a
different classroom. The groups will work in pairs.
We will use the Flipped and Blended Learning system.
1.- One week before each seminar: The professor will upload on the BEEP web site of
the course a 7-10 minutes long video about a question related to the topic of the
Creative City. At the end of it, the professor will propose to the groups a homework to
be presented the day of the seminar. It will be about the implementation of the
question of the video to the case of Piacenza.
2.- The day of the seminar: the groups will present and defend their proposals during
15 minutes, using the PowerPoint program or similar. They will do it in couples. After
each 2 presentations there will be a 45 minutes long debate in which the other 2
groups will act as an evaluation commission.
5.- REQUIREMENTS.
- Attend the classes (minimum 75%).
- Participate in the seminars group presentations.
- Participate in the seminars debates.
- Do the written tests (related to the videos and lessons content).
- Do the research paper and video.
6.- EVALUATION.
Grades.
The final grade will result of the proportional addition of four partial grades:
- 25% corresponding to 6 short tests about the videos and the lessons content.
- 25% corresponding to the 5 seminars group presentations.
- 25% corresponding to the participation in the seminars debates.
- 25% corresponding to the research paper.
In order to pass the course, the four partial grades have to have been evaluated. In case anyone would
have not, the student will have to submit the corresponding task at the end of the term (in the day of
the exam). In case no one of them had been evaluated, he/she will have to do, at the end of the term (in
the day of the exam), a written exam about the lectures of the course (this will also be the case of the
non-assisting students).
If the student wishes to improve his/her final grade, he/she will have to do this same written exam at
the end of the term and about the contents of the course lectures. The grade of this exam will substitute
the previous one.
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Research paper.
The aim of this task is introducing the students in the techniques of research in architecture, learning
how to do a paper to be published in an international journal.
The topic will be: Tactical Piacenza, that is, the implementation in Piacenza of the concepts of the
Creative City. Each group will reorganize the 5 proposals developed during the seminars presentation
and give it the format of a research paper, that is, they cannot be expressed as if they were an urban or
architectural project (with plans and drawings), but through written guidelines, and with the help of
sketches or visual references.
1.- A two minutes long video where the proposals are recreated.
Title
Abstract (max. 500 words)
6 keywords
Introduction of the topic.
Objectives.
Methodology.
Results: strategies proposed.
Conclusions
Bibliography.
The progress of the research work will be reviewed in two tutorials: November 10th, and November 24th
2017
The deadline for the submission of the paper will be: December 3rd, 2017.
The videos will be presented on a final review that will take place on December 15th, 2017
7.- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Carta, Maurizio (2007), Creative City.
Florida, Richard (2005), Cities and the Creative Class.
Landry, Charles (2008), The Creative City.
Lerner, Jaime (2014), Urban acupuncture.
Lydon, Mike (2012), Tactical Urbanism 2.
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8.-SCHEDULE.