D.1 KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING The training objective of the course is to provide students with the ability to use theories, principles and techniques of architectural and urban composition functional to the interdisciplinary and transcalar development of the project. The design experience of the course is coordinated with the general objectives of the Integrated Design Laboratory and those specific to the other 3 courses. This process of integration of knowledge to face the complexity of the architecture-city relationship translates into a common goal of knowledge: “making room”. This principle takes on shades of continuous research that poses the urban question as a problem of fundamental importance for the architectural project. For this reason, transtypological research confirms itself as the main vector of theoretical and practical knowledge of the relationship between the artefact and the set of artefacts (the sum of the parts is greater than the unit) and of the relationship between the built space and the empty space. , so as to overshadow the simple application of the concept of measurement, in the urban scale. In addition to understanding the dialectic between the physical dimension and the phenomenal dimension, typical of the complexity of the architectural and urban composition, the student will be stimulated to become aware of the personal expressive aptitude, and therefore to also respond to questions of language, within a common objective given the premises of the course: the compositional treatment of all the artifacts remains in a discreet and noiseless context where the decisive and sure sign does not allow formalistic trappings and where complex issues arise that will allow us to refer to Architecture as a Place , a place of hope as well as research. D.2 APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING With respect to the notions provided by the course and the operational contents that will be developed by the teacher, the student will have to demonstrate the ability of applied understanding on the following issues: 1. Observation and understanding of the urban phenomenon; 2. Scope of relationships and interference between architecture and urban complex; 3. Ability to traverse and use the different scales of the project; 4. Ability to articulate the architectural project with other thematic areas; 5. Control of the perceptual-aesthetic dimension and urban insertion in relation to construction materials and technologies. D.3 MAKING JUDGEMENTS One of the main objectives of the course concerns the development of the student's personal arguments on the compositional choices and the design solutions adopted through an exercise that is articulated between free experimentation, dialectics and comparison, standardization and self-verification and in particular: 1. observation; 2. conception and interpretation; 3 sizing and modeling; 4. technical-regulatory checks and self-checks; 5 development of a grammar of the architectural project. D.4 COMMUNICATION SKILLS As Costantino Dardi wrote, architecture should not be represented, but it should be presented. The training objectives will be completed from exercise to "project communication" both as a technical-expressive ability typical of architectural design, and as a conscious and own language, experimenting and integrating different media, media and communication codes. D.5 LEARNING SKILLS At the end of the course, the student will be asked to critically illustrate the design process developed and the theoretical reasons that founded it to give account of the different dimensions of the project and the reasons for coherence and relationship with the other disciplines of the Laboratory.

The necessary prerequisites are those foreseen by the Integrated Design Laboratory, that is, having attended the preparatory Laboratories and having completed all the prerequisites as foreseen by the regulations of the Degree Program

The course of Architectural and Urban Design 5 is an integral part of the Integrated Architecture and Building Design Laboratory, the theoretical contents and above all the design exercise is unique and coordinated with the other three courses of the Laboratory. [...] I certainly don't think I have Balzac's narrative qualities, but the topic I am about to address would require them, because it is the last romantic story of the Italian "domaine bâtí". A story - mind you - of conjectures, more than of established truths, but which - in my opinion - concerns one of the two singular magical moments of Italian architecture of the entire twentieth century [...] thus Francesco Tentori opens the introduction of his "Learn from Venice", and so I begin the premise of this course, with Tentori and his text that traces / reconstructs those years (1956-1964 and 1968-1972) of which he was also the direct protagonist, who from Samonà the Aymonino Architecture Group saw, today we can say it, the birth of this discipline, the “architectural and urban composition”, but above all the birth of a new way of looking at the city through architecture, but also vice versa. Starting again from the themes, tools and events of the "urban composition", the morpho-typological relationship, morphemes and morphotypes, passing from the architecture of the city to the concept of the urban scene, to arrive at that of figural coherence, and from that of urban facts to that of the "empty construction" (urban) up to the building-city, to trace an educational path able to offer solid cultural references, consolidated operational tools, but also opportunities for reflection and experimentation on the architectural project today, projected however in the complexity of the urban dimension. In this regard, an "experimental short-circuit" is proposed between the approach of the founding fathers (at the time innovative) of architectural and urban composition in Italy with the borderline experiments of some (apparently) atypical and distant figures such as Wes Jones, James Wines and Lebbeus Woods. This specific theoretical-operational path will be reused (put back into circulation) as a "reservoir of contents" to feed, in the design exercise, the student's responses to the most current and not yet codified requests posed by the contemporary city. Contemporary city understood in all its forms and manifestations and above all in all its “complexities and contradictions”. Each city, through its shape, tells us about the mechanisms of spatial appropriation, the systems of relationships and the aspirations of a specific era: reading the morphology of places allows us to grasp their transformations, alterations and discontinuities, before prefiguring, through the project, a subsequent change. Over the course of history the idea of the city changes and with it the elements with which transformations are carried out also change. The central issue of our work is knowing how to recognize the different plots, read the differences, determine the variations in order to hypothesize new morphologies capable of being a guiding tool for the project and readings oriented to the modification of individual architectures. The course is divided into an experimental path between theory and design and between architecture and city, addressing issues that are now binding for Architectural and Urban Design such as regeneration, reuse, smart growth, infill development, slum upgrading, mixed use, agriurbanization, "second nature", land consumption, resilience, urban forestry, but without forgetting the starting point (see above) and the basic issues that animate this discipline: the art of build the city.

General Bibliography: C. Aymonino et al. Gruppo Architettura, Per una ricerca di progettazione 3: anno accademico 1970-1971. Il ruolo dell’abitazione nella formazione e nello sviluppo della città moderna e contemporanea, Venezia, Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, 1971 R. Banham, Los Angeles. L’architettura di quattro ecologie, Genova, Costa&Nolan, 1983 (edizione originale: 1971) L. Benevolo, La cattura dell’infinito, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1991 A. Cantafora, Quindici stanze per una casa, Torino, Einaudi, 1988 P.L. Grandinetti, A. Dal Fabbro, R. Cantarelli, Gianugo Polesello. Un maestro del novecento. La composizione in architettura, Siracusa, LetteraVentidue, 2019 V. Gregotti, Il territorio dell’architettura, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1993 (edizione originale: 1966) W. Jones, Instrumental form: design for words, buildings, machines, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1998 R. Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, S, M, L, XL, New York, Monicelli Press, 1995 F. Bilò (a cura di), R. Koolhaas. Antologia di testi su Bigness: progetto e complessità artificiale, Roma, Kappa, 2004 R. Koolhaas, Delirius New York: un manifesto retroattivo per Manhattan, Milano, Electa, 2001 (edizione originale: 1978) G. Mastrigli, R. Koolhaas. Junkspace: per un ripensamento radicale dello spazio urbano, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2006 M. Mucci, Lebbeus Woods: Experimental Architecture. Tra immaginazione figurative e decostruttivismo linguistico, Siracusa, LetteraVentidue, 2022 A. Rossi, L’architettura della città, Milano, il Saggiatore, 2018 pag. 169 (edizione originale: 1966) F. Purini, Discorso sull’architettura. Cinque itinerari nell’arte del costruire, Venezia, Marsilio, 2022 F. Tentori, Imparare da Venezia, Roma, Officina, 1994 C. Toraldo di Francia, SITE architecture 1971-1988, Roma, Officina, 1989 R. Venturi, Complessità e contraddizioni nell’architettura, Bari, Dedalo Edizioni, 1991 (edizione originale: 1977) P. Virilio, Lo spazio critico, Bari, Dedalo Edizioni, 1998 The specific bibliography will be illustrated during the lessons

The Architectural and Urban Design 5 is part of the Integrated Architecture and Building Design Laboratory and is closely coordinated with the teaching activities of the other 3 courses and will be divided into: 1. theoretical lessons ex chair 2. lessons on case studies 3. collective seminars 4. preparatory exercises 5. reviews and discussion with individual working groups 6. inspections in the study areas 6. seminars with external teachers and professionals 7. workshops 8. study trip

The Architectural and Urban Design 5 is within the Integrated Architecture and Building Design Laboratory The teaching activity and also the case study (exam project) of the course are coordinated with the other courses within the Integrated Design Laboratory for information and communications relating to the Architectural and UrbanDesign write to: prof. Adriano Venudo avenudo@units.it

The exam falls within the activities of the Integrated Design Laboratory and will therefore be unified with the other courses. It will take place through the presentation of the graphic and written drawings produced by each group during the workshop and a simultaneous individual interview on the theoretical-disciplinary themes relating to the project, treated during the lessons and deepened with the reading of some volumes of the general bibliography and of the one suggested from time to time in class. The exam for the Architectural and Urban Composition 5 course is an integral part of the Laboratory exam. The vote is expressed in thirtieths. The questions are open-ended. The general criterion for obtaining sufficiency is based on Liebig's minimum theory, i.e. not on the amount of knowledge level of all the topics (topics, tools, theories) covered by the course, but on the level of knowledge of the poorest and how this influences others, limiting their theoretical-design application. The specific criterion for obtaining sufficiency concerns the presence or absence of coherence between the design choices developed in the exam project and the theoretical ones discussed and covered by the course. To obtain the maximum score, the student will have to demonstrate, in addition to the coherence between the design choices and the theoretical ones (therefore the knowledge of theories, techniques, tools and topics covered during the course), critical ability, his own architectural language, and self-criticism in exhibition of the project.

The course has both a theoretical and a technical nature, therefore the themes are of a cultural nature, and therefore are fundamental for the training of an architect aware of the social, political and also environmental responsibilities of those who are preparing to make transformations in the built environment and in the places of people's life. Acquired knowledge and skills can contribute to the goal of sustainable cities and communities, in particular to the inclusive and sustainable environmental, landscape and urban riqualification, to the promotion of cultural heritage.