Contemporary Architectural Design Theory
The aim of the course is to provide the student with a critical awareness of the main themes of contemporary architectural research, with particular attention to the theoretical, critical and methodological issues of the architectural design. Design, from the idea to the construction, as a synthesis of multiple knowledges, cannot disregard its theoretical foundations that are necessary to make clear the intentionality of its proposals. Moving from the tradition of disciplinary knowledge, the course deals with themes and forms of architectural theory, proposing comparisons between the most significant contemporary theoretical positions, by deepening concepts, paradigms, tools. Coherently with the objectives of the Study Course, the teaching assumes as background the relation between architecture and the city, whose discussion has characterized the Italian theoretical tradition and is today of utmost importance in the context of the modifications of contemporary settlements.