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The Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation) is organized in a single programme, that results in the award of a Master of Science (Laura Magistrale); there are two curricula, that have the same contents, and differ in the language they are taught in: one in Italian, one in English.
The programme combines mandatory and elective units, and is assessed through individual documents, writing up of reports, group projects and presentations.
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REGULATIONS FOR THE MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
ARCHITECTURE (CONSERVATION)
CLASS: LM-4
1. The Course’s Learning Objectives and Description of the Programme Structure
These Regulations define the contents of the Academic System and specify the organizational aspects of the Course, which pertains to the Class LM4 of the University Masters Degrees in Architecture and Structural Engineering-Architecture (DM 16 March 2007).
A) Learning Objectives
The Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation) represents the second step of the “ 3 + 2” path offered by Sapienza’s Faculty of Architecture. It leads to the formation of a professional architect, who can plan, coordinate and execute works that modify or conserve the physical, natural and anthropic environment, mastering the planning instruments of architecture and engineering, and those related to the project’s architectural feasibility. Furthermore, he or she will have the skills needed to plan and supervise the various phases of construction, as well as those of conservation, restoration and re-development of historical architecture and common buildings, respecting their historical and environmental qualities. These prerogatives will be accompanied and strengthened by a deep awareness of the implications (historical-critical, compositional, morphological, structural, technical, urban, normative, economic-administrative and functional) of such operations.
The Masters Degree is concerned with the design of new projects, paying particular attention to the context and the impact on the architectural and environmental heritage.
Graduates will elaborate projects and coordinate specialists and professionals in the fields of contemporary design and architectural conservation, of buildings’ restoration, of environmental re-development and protection and, more in general, in the area of historically and technically aware interventions on pre-existing structures.
The Course is two-years long. It seeks to refine the skills developed in the previous Undergraduate Degree, and in particular:
a) the historical-critical analysis of architecture, understood in its broadest sense (from the single building to landscape and environment);
b) the ability to plan and execute, both with reference to modern architectural production and to the conservation and restoration of pre-existing structures;
c) specific scientific knowledge, acquired critically.
Graduates will therefore possess a solid preparation, which will allow them to:
- know in depth the history of architecture, construction industry, urban design, architectural conservation and of other activities through which the environment is transformed, which are related to the professions in the fields of architecture and of structural-architectural engineering, as defined by the directive 85/384/CEE;
- know in depth the instruments and forms of representation;
- know in depth the theoretical-scientific (as well as methodological-operational) aspects of mathematics and of other core sciences, and to employ such knowledge to interpret and describe complex issues which might require an interdisciplinary approach;
- know in depth theoretical-scientific and methodological-operational aspects of architecture and construction industry, urban design and architectural conservation, and to be able to employ this knowledge to identify, formulate and solve in an innovative way complex problems, which might require an interdisciplinary approach;
- possess knowledge in the field of the organization of firms and companies, and of the profession’s ethics and deontology;
- be fluent, in written and oral communication, in at least another EU language other than in Italian, including the profession’s specialized lexicon;
A specific learning objective of the Masters Degree, which satisfies the learning objectives of the LM 4 class, is a particular attention to the modalities of intervention on the pre-existing architectural and environmental heritage, and to the high-quality design of new buildings, with special attention devoted to the relationship with pre-existing context and the historical city.
B) Outline of the Education Offer
The two-year course unfolds through activities which are articulated and interrelated between characterizing, related and integrative subjects. The first group will focus on the ability to read and interpret problems related to architecture and urban design and, in parallel, to problems related to the conservation and restoration of the existing building heritage. An appropriate preparation will be provided, in particular, in the subjects of architectural design, of methods of the history of architecture, of survey, of the project of conservation and restoration, of technical construction, of architecture technology, of technical physics, and of management of re-development operations and of building restoration, in the city and in historical centres.
The second group aims at provide further practical knowledge in the fields of diagnostics, of the knowledge of (also traditional) materials, of conservation techniques as well as of the history of architecture and of the science of constructions.
Student will have the possibility to customise their formation, through elective credits and the final dissertation,
The Study Course Regulations define, within their legal limits, the amount of total time available for the student to study or for other formative, individual activities.
C) Professional Skills
The main career opportunities related to the Masters Degrees of this class are:
- activities in which graduates (fully aware of the project’s economic and structural feasibility) can plan operations of construction, transformation, modification or conservation of the physical environment and of landscape, employing the instruments of architecture, of structural-architectural engineering, of urban design and architectural conservation; this will be done while being fully aware of the aesthetic, distributive, functional, structural, technical-structural, organizational, economic and environmental implications, paying critical attention to the cultural transformations and to the needs of contemporary society;
-activities in which graduates plan and lead the realisation of works in the fields of architecture, of structural-architectural engineering, of urban design and architectural conservation, and, in general, of urban and natural environment, coordinating if necessary other graduates and workers.
Graduates can work in a private practice, as well as play a high-responsibility role in institutions and private and public companies (institutions, public and private firms, private practices and design businesses) operating in the fields of construction, transformation and conservation of single pieces of architecture, of the city and of landscape.
In order to familiarise the student with the job market, the University organises external activities such as internships and stages.
The class’s curriculum conforms to the directive 85/384/CEE, and it includes, among its formative activities, practical activities and laboratories for no less than a total of thirty credits.
The achievement of the compulsory formative activities, illustrated in the chart of the Architecture Sciences EU Degree, is a mandatory requirement to access any Masters Degree in the sector of Architecture and Structural-Architectural Engineering.
List of the Disciplinary-Scientific Sectors of the Architecture Sciences Degree, class L-17
Compulsory requirements in the chart below, equal to 108 ECTS (see the norms of the Degrees in the class L17, as per DM 16 marzo 2007).
Disciplinary Sectors SSD required ECTS
Mathematic-related subjects for Architecture
(INF/01 - IT
ING-INF/05 – Information Elaboration Systems
MAT/03 - Geometry
MAT/05 – Mathematical analysis
MAT/06 – Probability and Statistics Mathematics
MAT/07 – Mathematical Physics
MAT/08 – Numerical analysis
MAT/09 – Operational Research) 8
Physical-Technical and Implant-related Subjects for Architecture
(FIS/01 – Experimental Physics
ING-IND/10 – Technical Industrial Physics
ING-IND/11 – Environmental Technical Physics) 8
History-related subjects for Architecture
(ICAR/18 – History of Architecture) 16
Representation of architecture and environment
(ICAR/06 – Topography and Cartography
ICAR/17 - Drawing) 12
Architectural and Urban Design
(ICAR/14 – Architectural and Urban Composition) 24
Theories and Techniques for Architectural Conservation
(ICAR/19 - Conservation) 4
Structural Analysis and Design for Architecture
(ICAR/07 - Geotechnics
ICAR/08 – Construction Sciences
ICAR/09 – Construction Techniques) 8
Urban Design and Territory Planning
(ICAR/20 –Techniques and Urban Design
ICAR/21 – Urban Design) 12
Technology-related subjects for Architecture and Construction
(ICAR/10 – Technical architecture
ICAR/11 - Construction
ICAR/12 – Technology of Architecture) 12
Evaluation-related subjects for Architecture and Urban Design
(ICAR/22 - Valuation) 4
D) Career Prospects
The Masters Degree prepares architects who can enter in dialogue with a variety of professional figures operating today in the fields of construction, urban design, environmental and cultural heritage. At the same time, they will be able to manage the execution, coordination and planning direction specific to their profession.
Graduates will work in a professional area concerned with planning and construction, as well as conservation, re-development and restoration of the building and urban heritage.
Graduates usually work in:
- private practices, companies and firms concerned with planning: for architectural design, urban design, conservation, for the direction of the construction of new buildings and of construction sites for the survey, investigation and diagnostics on the conditions of the existing settlement heritage;
- construction firms: for the planning, survey, technical investigation and direction of new buildings’ construction sites and of conservation;
- territory-management bodies (ministries, regional authorities, economic bodies, normative bodies): for the planning, investigation and survey of settlement structures, with reference to general planning or executive actions (detailed plans, urban restoration plans and sustainable development plans, etc), and for the technical-administrative management of the works;
- regional authorities for cultural and environmental heritage, authorities for architectural and landscape heritage, archaeological authorities: for the historical study, the critical survey, investigations and diagnostics on the architectural and environmental heritage, and for the technical-administrative management, including the direction of works;
- institutions, companies and firms working in the sector of control of environmental impact, also through the employment of systems of remote monitoring, geographical information systems (GIS) and of the main monitoring networks.
E) Norms related to admission
In order to access this Masters Degree, it is necessary to possess an Undergraduate Degree in a Course of the classes L17, L 23 (or in the class 4 ex D.M. 509/1999) with an admission test at a national level, also in compliance with the ‘3+2’ path recognized in the EU. Furthermore, the student must possess the compulsory requirements, that is, the minimum number of ECTSs of the SSDs for every disciplinary area, as defined in the chart related to the Degree Class L-17 c L-17 ex DM 270 in the ex class 4 (current L-17).
"To access the Masters Degree, the student must:
-possess a Degree in the class L-17 or L-23 or L-7 ex DM. 270 (or in the class 4 or 8 ex D.M. 509/1999);
-have completed the required formative activities, corresponding to the number of 108 ECTSs, described in the chart related to the Degree in Architecture Sciences L-17;
- with reference to the minimum requirements for the Degree class L-17, the student must possess at least 108 ECTSs n the following scientific-disciplinary sectors: MAT/05 Mathematical Analysis, ICAR/08 Construction Sciences, ICAR/09 Construction Techniques; ING-IND/11 Environmental Technical Physics; ICAR/12 Technology of Architecture; ICAR/18 History of Architecture, ICAR/21 Urban Design; ICAR/14 Architectural and Urban Composition, ICAR/17 Drawing; ICAR/19 Conservation, ICAR/22 Valuation.
Furthermore, it is required that the student has a good command, in written and oral communication, of at least another EU language other than Italian. To enrol in a curriculum in English, it is not necessary to know Italian. In order to enrol, the student must pass a mandatory admission test to a Degree/a Single-Cycle Degree, explicitly directed to “the formation of architect”, as regulated at National level by the Ministry.
The assessment of the minimum requirements to access the Masters Degree consists of a selection procedure, with modalities defined in the Faculty’s specific yearly Call for Application (bando). Any necessary ECTSs integrations must be acquired before the exam of individual preparation. The modalities of such exam are established in the Study Course Regulations.
PARTE ONE
AIMS AND BODIES
Art. 1 – Aims
1. The Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation) EU (henceforth “the Masters Degree” or “Study Course”) pertains to class LM-4 with the application of the DM 22 October 2004, n. 270 (already 4/S Class of the Degrees in Architecture Sciences and Structural Engineering, as according to the DM 4 August 2000 and the following DM 28 November 2000). The formative and cultural project at the heart of the Masters Degree is based upon the integration of humanistic, technical and artistic knowledge, in order to prepare a designer who can master the cognitive, creative and executive processes of architecture.
2. The Masters Degree will take place in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Rome (henceforth, “the Faculty”) in the area of the Academic Area ‘Architecture and Landscape Sciences’.
3. The Degree Course refers to the following Departments: History, Design and Conservation (reference department, Del. G. F. 16/01/2013), “Architecture and Design”, “Design, Technology of Architecture, Territory and Environment”, “Structural and Geotechnical Engineering”, “History, Design and Conservation of Architecture”, with the contribution of other departments to complete the Education Offer.
4. In accordance with the Sapienza’s Statute and the Architecture Sciences Area Regulations, these Regulations define the organisation of the Study Course in the aspects not regulated by the previously mentioned norms.
5. The Academic System, with the learning objectives and the general framework of the formative activities, is approved by the Faculty Committee and, afterwards, by the Academic Senate and by the National University Council.
Art. 2 – Bodies of the Masters Degree
1. The Degree’s Bodies are:
- The Study Course Council;
- The Study Course President;
- The Study Course Coordinating Committee;
- The Study Course Teaching Committee;
- The Study Course Quality Control Committee;
- potential extraordinary committees, such as, those concerned with tutoring and support, with internships and stages’ management, etc.
2. The Study Course Council is made up of a delegation of students equivalent to the 15% of lecturers, of all the lecturers teaching the Study Course, and of the staff with the same status, as according to the D.P.R. 382/80 and to the Law 341/90, working as substitute lecturers within the Study Course, and by those who work through a teaching contract.
The Study Course Council has a decision-making power for the tasks related to the Study Course. Temporary lecturers, who undertake formation activities in courses or academic units, participate in the Council without the right to vote.
3. The Study Course President is elected by the members of the Study Course Council, as according to the art. 9. c.1 of the Academic Area Regulations.
The President summons the meetings of the Study Course’s Teaching Committee and/or of the Study Course Council, on an Agenda related to the Study Course. The President refers to the Academic Area President, to the Academic Area Coordinating Committee and to the Academic Area Committee. He or she is in office for three years, with the possibility of just one consecutive renewal. The President can use specific Committees.
4. The Coordinating Committee is made up of six members, among which three are by right and three are elected. The three members by right are: the President, the Manager of the Coordinating Committee and the Manager of the active work groups (Commissions or Committees), nominated by the President among the tenured lecturers of the Council. The three elected members are elected, upon proposal of the President, among the tenured lectures to which a unit in the Degree Course is appointed. The President chooses the Secretary in the Degree Course Council, among the youngest Associated lecturer or tenured Researcher and, where the same in seniority, the youngest in age among the members of the Committee.
5. The Study Course President and the Committee members are elected, with secret scrutiny, among the tenured lecturers who make up the Council, by the lecturers with the right to vote. The election is approved by the Faculty Committee. The President and the members of the Committee are in office for no more than three years, and can be re-elected for no more than one consecutive time. The election of the President is by absolute majority at the first convocation, by relative majority in the following convocations. The members of the Committee are elected by majority. Elections are announced by the oldest Full lecturer and, when the same in rank, by the oldest in age (Dean), thirty days before the expiry of the mandate. Elections are valid if there is the participation of the absolute majority of those with the right to vote.
6. The President’s duties include:
a) to summon the Council, having established the Agenda, to lead and moderate the discussion, and guarantee the respect of the Regulations;
b) to summon the Coordinating Committee;
c) to supervise and coordinate the other activities of the Study Course. In particular, the President proposes – in agreement with the referred Department and the Department(s) involved and the Academic Area of Architecture Sciences and Landscape – the appointment of the teaching of the individual units;
d) to attend to the execution of the decisions, to monitor that what has been decided by the Study Course Council is respected, to write reports and circulate them to the other related academic bodies;
e) In case of absence or impossibility, the President is substituted by the Dean. If the hindrance lasts for more than six months, new elections take place.
7. The Councils ensure the quality of the formative activities, make proposals about the Academic System and, on a yearly basis, they identify the lecturers to whom to appoint the single units of the Study Course, taking into account the requirements for the sustainability of the Education Offer, in agreement with the Academic Area.
8. For the election of the Study Course President, the following members of the Council have a right to vote: all the lecturers, stabilised lecturers, researchers, staff with the same status as according the current legislation, the delegation of students enrolled in the Study Course, as well as the delegation of the technical-administrative staff and of collaborators and experts.
9. For all the other matters of competence of the Study Course Council, the following have a right to vote: all the lecturers, stabilised lecturers, researchers, staff with the same status as according the current legislation, and the delegation of students enrolled in the Study Course.
The following can participate to the Study Course Council’s debate, without a right to vote: lecturers with teaching contracts linked to the Study Course.
10. For the Study Course Council sessions to be valid, it is necessary that the majority of those with the right to vote are present. To determine the majority, those who justified their absence are not taken into account, while fuori ruolo lecturers are considered. No session is valid unless the President (or the Dean in his/her place) is present.
11. The Coordinating Committee helps the President in all the operations of: analysis and monitoring of teaching; analysis of the students’ paperwork, included that related to the validation of ECTSs and other formative activities; arrangement of various cultural and academic organisations, to be turned into proposals that will undergo first the approval of the Study Course Council, and then of the Faculty.
12. Furthermore, it initiates procedures related to the commas c) d) e) of the point 6. In particular, it will establish the modalities and criteria related to teaching, to the validation of formative activities and internships; execute decisions, propose modifications to the Manifesto, to the Academic System or to the Regulations, where needed, to be subjected to the approval of the Council; manage the Study Course website; propose and arrange seminars and other cultural activities.
13. The Coordinating Committee will also help the President, in particular, in proposing modifications to these Regulations, for the approval of the Study Course.
14. The work Group, potentially activated to organise the Study Course’s Internships and Stages, promotes the link between formation and public and private job market, arranging the modalities of internships and stages. The work Group for the Study Course’s Internships and Stages is made up of three tenured or non-tenured lectures who participate to the Study Course Council, nominated by all the members of the Study Course Council; its office lasts three years and, in case of renounce or end of contract, there is a new election.
15. The work Group, potentially activated for the Study Course’s Services of Support and Tutoring, arranges and circulates information about the Course programme, the student services, promoting the students’ active participation to academic activities; it furthermore defines the criteria and modalities of Tutoring. The Group is made up of three lecturers of the Study Course Council, nominated by all the members of the Study Course Council; its office lasts three years and, in case of renounce or end of contract, there is a new election. The lecturers of the work Group can be helped in the activities of Tutoring by qualified collaborators.
Art. 3 Excellence Pathway
The Academic Area Committee of Architecture Sciences and Landscape creates an Excellence Pathway for the Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation) LM4, with the aim of enhancing the formation of those exemplary students who are interested in a specific interdisciplinary or in-depth approach to one of the subjects of the Degree in Architecture (Conservation).
The pathway offers additional formative activities, such as in-depth or interdisciplinary studies, seminars and internships, according to a plan customised by each student, within the units of the Degree class.
The student who can access the Excellence Pathway is assigned to a lecturer or tutor (the tutor, if not the lecturer of a unit, will be nominated by the President CAD) who supervises him or her, and collaborates to the organisation of activities agreed with the student, for a maximum of 100 hours every year, with the writing of a final report.
To apply to an Excellence Pathway, the student presents a request to the Academic Area Committee, after the publication of a Call for Application, and having concluded the first year of Course. The requirements are:
• to possess, by the 31st of October, all the ECTSs of the first year;
• to possess a weighted average of exam grades not inferior to 27/30.
To carry on the Excellence Pathway, the student must acquire all the ECTSs of the year s/he is attending by the 31st of October, with a weighted average not inferior to 27/30. These requirements are verified at the end of each academic year by the Academic Area Committee, on the basis of the report of the related lecturer.
When graduating, the student who has successfully completed an Excellence Pathway will receive a certificate from the Faculty Presidency, which will be recorded on the student’s curriculum, with the modalities established for other kind of certificates. In addition to this certificate, the University awards the student with a prize, equivalent to the amount of fees paid in the last year of the Degree.
The rules and modalities for the application to the Excellence Pathway can be found on the website of the Study Course, where there is also the Call for Application and a facsimile of the application form.
Art. 4 Specific competences of the Study Course Council
1. The Study Course Council, with the help of specific bodies (art. 2 of these Regulations), works on proposals to be subjected to the approval of the Academic Area, of the Department of reference and of associated Departments and of the Faculty, on the following subjects:
a) the teaching programmes (respecting the progression requirements established in the second part of these Regulations), prepared by the Teaching Committee and by the Faculty’s Education Offer; b) the experimentation of new teaching modalities, within the limits of the current legislation, and proposal of types of other formative activities and internships, to which to associate credits;
c) the experimentation of modalities to organize teaching activities, aiming at innovation and qualitative improvement;
d) the specific Regulations of the Degree Course;
e) the yearly Manifesto of the Degree Course;
f) the report on the teaching activity of the Degree Course, with the evaluation of the results of the teaching activity, of the organization and functioning of the teaching services;
Furthermore, it presents proposals and opinions concerning:
• the activation of units established in the Academic System;
• distribution of teaching appointments, in agreement with lecturers, assistants and researchers;
• appointments or substitute appointments to fill vacancies, and the nomination of experts to whom award contracts.
• improvement, enhancement and activation of teaching services;
• statuary modifications to the Degree Course Regulations.
2. With the help of specific bodies that monitor and coordinate teaching (art. 2 of these Regulations), the Degree Course Council prepares and decides:
a) the Regulations specific to the Degree Course, which constitute the second part of these Regulations, respecting the teaching freedom, within the norms of the Statute, of the University Teaching Regulations, of the Faculty Regulations and these Regulations;
b) the coordination of the programmes of the courses, the articulation of their contents, with particular reference to the learning objectives, to the articulation of the teaching activity and the arrangement of the exams;
c) the monitoring of the Course’s programmes and of the procedures agreed in the process of maintenance and optimisation of Quality;
d) the preparation and yearly distribution, by the start of the new academic year, of the bilingual guide of the Degree Course, with the current Academic System, the teaching Regulations and the Manifesto’s content, as well as the programmes and the curricula of the lecturers, the cultural activities, the formative activities and those related to the internships and the stages;
e) the preparation and distribution (also via the Degree Course website) of information related to the formative activity, to the organisational procedures and to the arrangement of the classes’ timetable, the examinations dates, as well as lecturers’ office hours;
f) the assessment and approval of students’ individual study plans, of dissertation requests and student-related paperwork;
g) on matters regarding the validation and recognition, prepared by the Study Course Teaching Committee, of exams and ECTSs acquired by students in other Study Courses or Faculties, in Italy and abroad, or related to certified formative activities, as according to the modalities established in these Regulations (see Part Two) .
3. The Study Course Council fulfils the procedures concerning the Degree Course in all its manifestations, marked as mandatory and urgent as established by the University Regulations, by National legislation or by potential requests, modifications and integration which might intervene on a National or University level.
Art. 5 Operating modalities of the Degree Course Council
1. The Degree Course Council is summoned ordinarily every three months and, extra-ordinarily, whenever it is needed. It can be summoned upon motivated request by at least one fifth of the members. The request must be put forward with a written notice at least eight days before the session, with the exception of proved urgency, through e-mail or fax.
2. Attendance is recorded at the beginning of each session, distinctly between those who have the right to vote, and other members;
3. During the session of the Degree Course Council, the President opens the discussion on the themes of the agenda and on decision proposals, or leaves a delegate to do it in his place. The Secretary notes the order of those who ask to speak and, according to this order, the President allows each to speak. The President can propose the decision to stop the requests to speak, establish a time limit for each contribution on the same theme, and prevent further discussions on an already settled theme. The President can ask the Council to invert the agenda or to add particularly urgent, not originally scheduled themes (the latter proposal can also be formulated by ten members, but has to be approved by the Degree Course Council).
4. Proposals concerning the Regulations, the manner of discussion, the day’s agenda and the priority of a vote, have the priority and suspend the discussion on another subject. Afterwards, only one speaker in favour and only one against can speak.
5. The members that take part to the discussion can present written modifications to the decisions’ proposals, and explain them. However, it is not possible to propose modifications, under any form, to decisions already approved by the Degree Course Council.
6. Decisions are taken if the majority of voters is reached; in case of tie, the vote of the President decides. No one can vote about issues which concern them personally, or concern relatives until the fourth degree.
7. Vote takes place by raising the hand. If the President believes the result to be unclear, it is possible to proceed to roll call vote.
8. It is possible to proceed to roll call vote or to secret scrutiny in the cases established by the law or the Regulations. It is also possible upon request of the President or at least ten members.
9. Each session’s report is submitted to the office of the Degree Course Council, at least five days before the approval session and, however, max. two months after the date to which it refers. Potential corrections to the report must be presented in written form to the President, and have priority of discussion over other issues in the agenda.
PART TWO
SPECIFIC NORMS
Art. 1 - Programmes
1. The Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation) is organized in a single programme, that results in the award of a Master of Science (Laura Magistrale); there are two curricula, that have the same contents, and differ in the language they are taught in: one in Italian, one in English.
The Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation) (AC/AR) is the natural second step of the Undergraduate Degree in Sciences of Architecture and of the City; articulated as according to the DM 509/99, it has been recognized by the EU in 2007. The DM 270/2004 established the maximum number of examinations and the minimum number of ECTSs for core, characterizing, related and integrative activities. Thus, it led to the necessity of regulating the Academic System with particular reference to some scientific-disciplinary sectors, without however altering the essential structure of the Course. This satisfies the learning objectives of the LM-4 class, with particular attention to the modalities of intervention on the existing architectural and environmental heritage, and to the high-quality planning of new projects.
With reference to its name, the Degree Course has been recognized by the EU (MIUR communication, prot. N. 1647 of 12 July 2007) with the name “Architecture (Conservation)”, explicitly requested with the brackets by the European Committee.
2. 1 ECTS corresponds to 25 hours of the student’s total work, including activities in class and individual studying, divided equally.
3.The programme establishes a limited number of ECTSs (8), which can be acquired through elective units offered by the Course, by the Faculty or other Faculties of the University. The study plan, with the choice of elective units, must be approved by the President, in order to guarantee a congruent evaluation with the Programme with the Degree Course Teaching Committee.
Art. 2 – List of Units
1. The formative activities offered by the Degree Course in Architecture (Conservation), the curricula, the list of units for each course year, their arrangement in integrative units, the ECTSs assigned to each and the learning objectives of each unit are described in the charts in the Attachment to these Regulations.
2. The formative activities actually activated and any potential update to the Attachment, are notified through:
• the Ministry’s Education Offer database;
• the Study Manifesto of the Faculty of Architecture (administrative office of the Course);
• the Faculty’s website;
• the Degree’s website, on the Sapienza portal.
Art. 3 – ECTSs and Progression Requirements
1. There is the following Progression Requirement:
in order to take the Design Studio 2 exam, the student must have passed the Design Studio 1 exam.
Art. 4 –
REGULATIONS FOR THE MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
ARCHITECTURE (CONSERVATION)
CLASS: LM-4
1. The Course’s Learning Objectives and Description of the Programme Structure
These Regulations define the contents of the Academic System and specify the organizational aspects of the Course, which pertains to the Class LM4 of the University Masters Degrees in Architecture and Structural Engineering-Architecture (DM 16 March 2007).
A) Learning Objectives
The Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation) represents the second step of the “ 3 + 2” path offered by Sapienza’s Faculty of Architecture. It leads to the formation of a professional architect, who can plan, coordinate and execute works that modify or conserve the physical, natural and anthropic environment, mastering the planning instruments of architecture and engineering, and those related to the project’s architectural feasibility. Furthermore, he or she will have the skills needed to plan and supervise the various phases of construction, as well as those of conservation, restoration and re-development of historical architecture and common buildings, respecting their historical and environmental qualities. These prerogatives will be accompanied and strengthened by a deep awareness of the implications (historical-critical, compositional, morphological, structural, technical, urban, normative, economic-administrative and functional) of such operations.
The Masters Degree is concerned with the design of new projects, paying particular attention to the context and the impact on the architectural and environmental heritage.
Graduates will elaborate projects and coordinate specialists and professionals in the fields of contemporary design and architectural conservation, of buildings’ restoration, of environmental re-development and protection and, more in general, in the area of historically and technically aware interventions on pre-existing structures.
The Course is two-years long. It seeks to refine the skills developed in the previous Undergraduate Degree, and in particular:
a) the historical-critical analysis of architecture, understood in its broadest sense (from the single building to landscape and environment);
b) the ability to plan and execute, both with reference to modern architectural production and to the conservation and restoration of pre-existing structures;
c) specific scientific knowledge, acquired critically.
Graduates will therefore possess a solid preparation, which will allow them to:
- know in depth the history of architecture, construction industry, urban design, architectural conservation and of other activities through which the environment is transformed, which are related to the professions in the fields of architecture and of structural-architectural engineering, as defined by the directive 85/384/CEE;
- know in depth the instruments and forms of representation;
- know in depth the theoretical-scientific (as well as methodological-operational) aspects of mathematics and of other core sciences, and to employ such knowledge to interpret and describe complex issues which might require an interdisciplinary approach;
- know in depth theoretical-scientific and methodological-operational aspects of architecture and construction industry, urban design and architectural conservation, and to be able to employ this knowledge to identify, formulate and solve in an innovative way complex problems, which might require an interdisciplinary approach;
- possess knowledge in the field of the organization of firms and companies, and of the profession’s ethics and deontology;
- be fluent, in written and oral communication, in at least another EU language other than in Italian, including the profession’s specialized lexicon;
A specific learning objective of the Masters Degree, which satisfies the learning objectives of the LM 4 class, is a particular attention to the modalities of intervention on the pre-existing architectural and environmental heritage, and to the high-quality design of new buildings, with special attention devoted to the relationship with pre-existing context and the historical city.
B) Outline of the Education Offer
The two-year course unfolds through activities which are articulated and interrelated between characterizing, related and integrative subjects. The first group will focus on the ability to read and interpret problems related to architecture and urban design and, in parallel, to problems related to the conservation and restoration of the existing building heritage. An appropriate preparation will be provided, in particular, in the subjects of architectural design, of methods of the history of architecture, of survey, of the project of conservation and restoration, of technical construction, of architecture technology, of technical physics, and of management of re-development operations and of building restoration, in the city and in historical centres.
The second group aims at provide further practical knowledge in the fields of diagnostics, of the knowledge of (also traditional) materials, of conservation techniques as well as of the history of architecture and of the science of constructions.
Student will have the possibility to customise their formation, through elective credits and the final dissertation,
The Study Course Regulations define, within their legal limits, the amount of total time available for the student to study or for other formative, individual activities.
C) Professional Skills
The main career opportunities related to the Masters Degrees of this class are:
- activities in which graduates (fully aware of the project’s economic and structural feasibility) can plan operations of construction, transformation, modification or conservation of the physical environment and of landscape, employing the instruments of architecture, of structural-architectural engineering, of urban design and architectural conservation; this will be done while being fully aware of the aesthetic, distributive, functional, structural, technical-structural, organizational, economic and environmental implications, paying critical attention to the cultural transformations and to the needs of contemporary society;
-activities in which graduates plan and lead the realisation of works in the fields of architecture, of structural-architectural engineering, of urban design and architectural conservation, and, in general, of urban and natural environment, coordinating if necessary other graduates and workers.
Graduates can work in a private practice, as well as play a high-responsibility role in institutions and private and public companies (institutions, public and private firms, private practices and design businesses) operating in the fields of construction, transformation and conservation of single pieces of architecture, of the city and of landscape.
In order to familiarise the student with the job market, the University organises external activities such as internships and stages.
The class’s curriculum conforms to the directive 85/384/CEE, and it includes, among its formative activities, practical activities and laboratories for no less than a total of thirty credits.
The achievement of the compulsory formative activities, illustrated in the chart of the Architecture Sciences EU Degree, is a mandatory requirement to access any Masters Degree in the sector of Architecture and Structural-Architectural Engineering.
List of the Disciplinary-Scientific Sectors of the Architecture Sciences Degree, class L-17
Compulsory requirements in the chart below, equal to 108 ECTS (see the norms of the Degrees in the class L17, as per DM 16 marzo 2007).
Disciplinary Sectors SSD required ECTS
Mathematic-related subjects for Architecture
(INF/01 - IT
ING-INF/05 – Information Elaboration Systems
MAT/03 - Geometry
MAT/05 – Mathematical analysis
MAT/06 – Probability and Statistics Mathematics
MAT/07 – Mathematical Physics
MAT/08 – Numerical analysis
MAT/09 – Operational Research) 8
Physical-Technical and Implant-related Subjects for Architecture
(FIS/01 – Experimental Physics
ING-IND/10 – Technical Industrial Physics
ING-IND/11 – Environmental Technical Physics) 8
History-related subjects for Architecture
(ICAR/18 – History of Architecture) 16
Representation of architecture and environment
(ICAR/06 – Topography and Cartography
ICAR/17 - Drawing) 12
Architectural and Urban Design
(ICAR/14 – Architectural and Urban Composition) 24
Theories and Techniques for Architectural Conservation
(ICAR/19 - Conservation) 4
Structural Analysis and Design for Architecture
(ICAR/07 - Geotechnics
ICAR/08 – Construction Sciences
ICAR/09 – Construction Techniques) 8
Urban Design and Territory Planning
(ICAR/20 –Techniques and Urban Design
ICAR/21 – Urban Design) 12
Technology-related subjects for Architecture and Construction
(ICAR/10 – Technical architecture
ICAR/11 - Construction
ICAR/12 – Technology of Architecture) 12
Evaluation-related subjects for Architecture and Urban Design
(ICAR/22 - Valuation) 4
D) Career Prospects
The Masters Degree prepares architects who can enter in dialogue with a variety of professional figures operating today in the fields of construction, urban design, environmental and cultural heritage. At the same time, they will be able to manage the execution, coordination and planning direction specific to their profession.
Graduates will work in a professional area concerned with planning and construction, as well as conservation, re-development and restoration of the building and urban heritage.
Graduates usually work in:
- private practices, companies and firms concerned with planning: for architectural design, urban design, conservation, for the direction of the construction of new buildings and of construction sites for the survey, investigation and diagnostics on the conditions of the existing settlement heritage;
- construction firms: for the planning, survey, technical investigation and direction of new buildings’ construction sites and of conservation;
- territory-management bodies (ministries, regional authorities, economic bodies, normative bodies): for the planning, investigation and survey of settlement structures, with reference to general planning or executive actions (detailed plans, urban restoration plans and sustainable development plans, etc), and for the technical-administrative management of the works;
- regional authorities for cultural and environmental heritage, authorities for architectural and landscape heritage, archaeological authorities: for the historical study, the critical survey, investigations and diagnostics on the architectural and environmental heritage, and for the technical-administrative management, including the direction of works;
- institutions, companies and firms working in the sector of control of environmental impact, also through the employment of systems of remote monitoring, geographical information systems (GIS) and of the main monitoring networks.
E) Norms related to admission
In order to access this Masters Degree, it is necessary to possess an Undergraduate Degree in a Course of the classes L17, L 23 (or in the class 4 ex D.M. 509/1999) with an admission test at a national level, also in compliance with the ‘3+2’ path recognized in the EU. Furthermore, the student must possess the compulsory requirements, that is, the minimum number of ECTSs of the SSDs for every disciplinary area, as defined in the chart related to the Degree Class L-17 c L-17 ex DM 270 in the ex class 4 (current L-17).
"To access the Masters Degree, the student must:
-possess a Degree in the class L-17 or L-23 or L-7 ex DM. 270 (or in the class 4 or 8 ex D.M. 509/1999);
-have completed the required formative activities, corresponding to the number of 108 ECTSs, described in the chart related to the Degree in Architecture Sciences L-17;
- with reference to the minimum requirements for the Degree class L-17, the student must possess at least 108 ECTSs n the following scientific-disciplinary sectors: MAT/05 Mathematical Analysis, ICAR/08 Construction Sciences, ICAR/09 Construction Techniques; ING-IND/11 Environmental Technical Physics; ICAR/12 Technology of Architecture; ICAR/18 History of Architecture, ICAR/21 Urban Design; ICAR/14 Architectural and Urban Composition, ICAR/17 Drawing; ICAR/19 Conservation, ICAR/22 Valuation.
Furthermore, it is required that the student has a good command, in written and oral communication, of at least another EU language other than Italian. To enrol in a curriculum in English, it is not necessary to know Italian. In order to enrol, the student must pass a mandatory admission test to a Degree/a Single-Cycle Degree, explicitly directed to “the formation of architect”, as regulated at National level by the Ministry.
The assessment of the minimum requirements to access the Masters Degree consists of a selection procedure, with modalities defined in the Faculty’s specific yearly Call for Application (bando). Any necessary ECTSs integrations must be acquired before the exam of individual preparation. The modalities of such exam are established in the Study Course Regulations.
PARTE ONE
AIMS AND BODIES
Art. 1 – Aims
1. The Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation) EU (henceforth “the Masters Degree” or “Study Course”) pertains to class LM-4 with the application of the DM 22 October 2004, n. 270 (already 4/S Class of the Degrees in Architecture Sciences and Structural Engineering, as according to the DM 4 August 2000 and the following DM 28 November 2000). The formative and cultural project at the heart of the Masters Degree is based upon the integration of humanistic, technical and artistic knowledge, in order to prepare a designer who can master the cognitive, creative and executive processes of architecture.
2. The Masters Degree will take place in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Rome (henceforth, “the Faculty”) in the area of the Academic Area ‘Architecture and Landscape Sciences’.
3. The Degree Course refers to the following Departments: History, Design and Conservation (reference department, Del. G. F. 16/01/2013), “Architecture and Design”, “Design, Technology of Architecture, Territory and Environment”, “Structural and Geotechnical Engineering”, “History, Design and Conservation of Architecture”, with the contribution of other departments to complete the Education Offer.
4. In accordance with the Sapienza’s Statute and the Architecture Sciences Area Regulations, these Regulations define the organisation of the Study Course in the aspects not regulated by the previously mentioned norms.
5. The Academic System, with the learning objectives and the general framework of the formative activities, is approved by the Faculty Committee and, afterwards, by the Academic Senate and by the National University Council.
Art. 2 – Bodies of the Masters Degree
1. The Degree’s Bodies are:
- The Study Course Council;
- The Study Course President;
- The Study Course Coordinating Committee;
- The Study Course Teaching Committee;
- The Study Course Quality Control Committee;
- potential extraordinary committees, such as, those concerned with tutoring and support, with internships and stages’ management, etc.
2. The Study Course Council is made up of a delegation of students equivalent to the 15% of lecturers, of all the lecturers teaching the Study Course, and of the staff with the same status, as according to the D.P.R. 382/80 and to the Law 341/90, working as substitute lecturers within the Study Course, and by those who work through a teaching contract.
The Study Course Council has a decision-making power for the tasks related to the Study Course. Temporary lecturers, who undertake formation activities in courses or academic units, participate in the Council without the right to vote.
3. The Study Course President is elected by the members of the Study Course Council, as according to the art. 9. c.1 of the Academic Area Regulations.
The President summons the meetings of the Study Course’s Teaching Committee and/or of the Study Course Council, on an Agenda related to the Study Course. The President refers to the Academic Area President, to the Academic Area Coordinating Committee and to the Academic Area Committee. He or she is in office for three years, with the possibility of just one consecutive renewal. The President can use specific Committees.
4. The Coordinating Committee is made up of six members, among which three are by right and three are elected. The three members by right are: the President, the Manager of the Coordinating Committee and the Manager of the active work groups (Commissions or Committees), nominated by the President among the tenured lecturers of the Council. The three elected members are elected, upon proposal of the President, among the tenured lectures to which a unit in the Degree Course is appointed. The President chooses the Secretary in the Degree Course Council, among the youngest Associated lecturer or tenured Researcher and, where the same in seniority, the youngest in age among the members of the Committee.
5. The Study Course President and the Committee members are elected, with secret scrutiny, among the tenured lecturers who make up the Council, by the lecturers with the right to vote. The election is approved by the Faculty Committee. The President and the members of the Committee are in office for no more than three years, and can be re-elected for no more than one consecutive time. The election of the President is by absolute majority at the first convocation, by relative majority in the following convocations. The members of the Committee are elected by majority. Elections are announced by the oldest Full lecturer and, when the same in rank, by the oldest in age (Dean), thirty days before the expiry of the mandate. Elections are valid if there is the participation of the absolute majority of those with the right to vote.
6. The President’s duties include:
a) to summon the Council, having established the Agenda, to lead and moderate the discussion, and guarantee the respect of the Regulations;
b) to summon the Coordinating Committee;
c) to supervise and coordinate the other activities of the Study Course. In particular, the President proposes – in agreement with the referred Department and the Department(s) involved and the Academic Area of Architecture Sciences and Landscape – the appointment of the teaching of the individual units;
d) to attend to the execution of the decisions, to monitor that what has been decided by the Study Course Council is respected, to write reports and circulate them to the other related academic bodies;
e) In case of absence or impossibility, the President is substituted by the Dean. If the hindrance lasts for more than six months, new elections take place.
7. The Councils ensure the quality of the formative activities, make proposals about the Academic System and, on a yearly basis, they identify the lecturers to whom to appoint the single units of the Study Course, taking into account the requirements for the sustainability of the Education Offer, in agreement with the Academic Area.
8. For the election of the Study Course President, the following members of the Council have a right to vote: all the lecturers, stabilised lecturers, researchers, staff with the same status as according the current legislation, the delegation of students enrolled in the Study Course, as well as the delegation of the technical-administrative staff and of collaborators and experts.
9. For all the other matters of competence of the Study Course Council, the following have a right to vote: all the lecturers, stabilised lecturers, researchers, staff with the same status as according the current legislation, and the delegation of students enrolled in the Study Course.
The following can participate to the Study Course Council’s debate, without a right to vote: lecturers with teaching contracts linked to the Study Course.
10. For the Study Course Council sessions to be valid, it is necessary that the majority of those with the right to vote are present. To determine the majority, those who justified their absence are not taken into account, while fuori ruolo lecturers are considered. No session is valid unless the President (or the Dean in his/her place) is present.
11. The Coordinating Committee helps the President in all the operations of: analysis and monitoring of teaching; analysis of the students’ paperwork, included that related to the validation of ECTSs and other formative activities; arrangement of various cultural and academic organisations, to be turned into proposals that will undergo first the approval of the Study Course Council, and then of the Faculty.
12. Furthermore, it initiates procedures related to the commas c) d) e) of the point 6. In particular, it will establish the modalities and criteria related to teaching, to the validation of formative activities and internships; execute decisions, propose modifications to the Manifesto, to the Academic System or to the Regulations, where needed, to be subjected to the approval of the Council; manage the Study Course website; propose and arrange seminars and other cultural activities.
13. The Coordinating Committee will also help the President, in particular, in proposing modifications to these Regulations, for the approval of the Study Course.
14. The work Group, potentially activated to organise the Study Course’s Internships and Stages, promotes the link between formation and public and private job market, arranging the modalities of internships and stages. The work Group for the Study Course’s Internships and Stages is made up of three tenured or non-tenured lectures who participate to the Study Course Council, nominated by all the members of the Study Course Council; its office lasts three years and, in case of renounce or end of contract, there is a new election.
15. The work Group, potentially activated for the Study Course’s Services of Support and Tutoring, arranges and circulates information about the Course programme, the student services, promoting the students’ active participation to academic activities; it furthermore defines the criteria and modalities of Tutoring. The Group is made up of three lecturers of the Study Course Council, nominated by all the members of the Study Course Council; its office lasts three years and, in case of renounce or end of contract, there is a new election. The lecturers of the work Group can be helped in the activities of Tutoring by qualified collaborators.
Art. 3 Excellence Pathway
The Academic Area Committee of Architecture Sciences and Landscape creates an Excellence Pathway for the Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation) LM4, with the aim of enhancing the formation of those exemplary students who are interested in a specific interdisciplinary or in-depth approach to one of the subjects of the Degree in Architecture (Conservation).
The pathway offers additional formative activities, such as in-depth or interdisciplinary studies, seminars and internships, according to a plan customised by each student, within the units of the Degree class.
The student who can access the Excellence Pathway is assigned to a lecturer or tutor (the tutor, if not the lecturer of a unit, will be nominated by the President CAD) who supervises him or her, and collaborates to the organisation of activities agreed with the student, for a maximum of 100 hours every year, with the writing of a final report.
To apply to an Excellence Pathway, the student presents a request to the Academic Area Committee, after the publication of a Call for Application, and having concluded the first year of Course. The requirements are:
• to possess, by the 31st of October, all the ECTSs of the first year;
• to possess a weighted average of exam grades not inferior to 27/30.
To carry on the Excellence Pathway, the student must acquire all the ECTSs of the year s/he is attending by the 31st of October, with a weighted average not inferior to 27/30. These requirements are verified at the end of each academic year by the Academic Area Committee, on the basis of the report of the related lecturer.
When graduating, the student who has successfully completed an Excellence Pathway will receive a certificate from the Faculty Presidency, which will be recorded on the student’s curriculum, with the modalities established for other kind of certificates. In addition to this certificate, the University awards the student with a prize, equivalent to the amount of fees paid in the last year of the Degree.
The rules and modalities for the application to the Excellence Pathway can be found on the website of the Study Course, where there is also the Call for Application and a facsimile of the application form.
Art. 4 Specific competences of the Study Course Council
1. The Study Course Council, with the help of specific bodies (art. 2 of these Regulations), works on proposals to be subjected to the approval of the Academic Area, of the Department of reference and of associated Departments and of the Faculty, on the following subjects:
a) the teaching programmes (respecting the progression requirements established in the second part of these Regulations), prepared by the Teaching Committee and by the Faculty’s Education Offer; b) the experimentation of new teaching modalities, within the limits of the current legislation, and proposal of types of other formative activities and internships, to which to associate credits;
c) the experimentation of modalities to organize teaching activities, aiming at innovation and qualitative improvement;
d) the specific Regulations of the Degree Course;
e) the yearly Manifesto of the Degree Course;
f) the report on the teaching activity of the Degree Course, with the evaluation of the results of the teaching activity, of the organization and functioning of the teaching services;
Furthermore, it presents proposals and opinions concerning:
• the activation of units established in the Academic System;
• distribution of teaching appointments, in agreement with lecturers, assistants and researchers;
• appointments or substitute appointments to fill vacancies, and the nomination of experts to whom award contracts.
• improvement, enhancement and activation of teaching services;
• statuary modifications to the Degree Course Regulations.
2. With the help of specific bodies that monitor and coordinate teaching (art. 2 of these Regulations), the Degree Course Council prepares and decides:
a) the Regulations specific to the Degree Course, which constitute the second part of these Regulations, respecting the teaching freedom, within the norms of the Statute, of the University Teaching Regulations, of the Faculty Regulations and these Regulations;
b) the coordination of the programmes of the courses, the articulation of their contents, with particular reference to the learning objectives, to the articulation of the teaching activity and the arrangement of the exams;
c) the monitoring of the Course’s programmes and of the procedures agreed in the process of maintenance and optimisation of Quality;
d) the preparation and yearly distribution, by the start of the new academic year, of the bilingual guide of the Degree Course, with the current Academic System, the teaching Regulations and the Manifesto’s content, as well as the programmes and the curricula of the lecturers, the cultural activities, the formative activities and those related to the internships and the stages;
e) the preparation and distribution (also via the Degree Course website) of information related to the formative activity, to the organisational procedures and to the arrangement of the classes’ timetable, the examinations dates, as well as lecturers’ office hours;
f) the assessment and approval of students’ individual study plans, of dissertation requests and student-related paperwork;
g) on matters regarding the validation and recognition, prepared by the Study Course Teaching Committee, of exams and ECTSs acquired by students in other Study Courses or Faculties, in Italy and abroad, or related to certified formative activities, as according to the modalities established in these Regulations (see Part Two) .
3. The Study Course Council fulfils the procedures concerning the Degree Course in all its manifestations, marked as mandatory and urgent as established by the University Regulations, by National legislation or by potential requests, modifications and integration which might intervene on a National or University level.
Art. 5 Operating modalities of the Degree Course Council
1. The Degree Course Council is summoned ordinarily every three months and, extra-ordinarily, whenever it is needed. It can be summoned upon motivated request by at least one fifth of the members. The request must be put forward with a written notice at least eight days before the session, with the exception of proved urgency, through e-mail or fax.
2. Attendance is recorded at the beginning of each session, distinctly between those who have the right to vote, and other members;
3. During the session of the Degree Course Council, the President opens the discussion on the themes of the agenda and on decision proposals, or leaves a delegate to do it in his place. The Secretary notes the order of those who ask to speak and, according to this order, the President allows each to speak. The President can propose the decision to stop the requests to speak, establish a time limit for each contribution on the same theme, and prevent further discussions on an already settled theme. The President can ask the Council to invert the agenda or to add particularly urgent, not originally scheduled themes (the latter proposal can also be formulated by ten members, but has to be approved by the Degree Course Council).
4. Proposals concerning the Regulations, the manner of discussion, the day’s agenda and the priority of a vote, have the priority and suspend the discussion on another subject. Afterwards, only one speaker in favour and only one against can speak.
5. The members that take part to the discussion can present written modifications to the decisions’ proposals, and explain them. However, it is not possible to propose modifications, under any form, to decisions already approved by the Degree Course Council.
6. Decisions are taken if the majority of voters is reached; in case of tie, the vote of the President decides. No one can vote about issues which concern them personally, or concern relatives until the fourth degree.
7. Vote takes place by raising the hand. If the President believes the result to be unclear, it is possible to proceed to roll call vote.
8. It is possible to proceed to roll call vote or to secret scrutiny in the cases established by the law or the Regulations. It is also possible upon request of the President or at least ten members.
9. Each session’s report is submitted to the office of the Degree Course Council, at least five days before the approval session and, however, max. two months after the date to which it refers. Potential corrections to the report must be presented in written form to the President, and have priority of discussion over other issues in the agenda.
PART TWO
SPECIFIC NORMS
Art. 1 - Programmes
1. The Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation) is organized in a single programme, that results in the award of a Master of Science (Laura Magistrale); there are two curricula, that have the same contents, and differ in the language they are taught in: one in Italian, one in English.
The Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation) (AC/AR) is the natural second step of the Undergraduate Degree in Sciences of Architecture and of the City; articulated as according to the DM 509/99, it has been recognized by the EU in 2007. The DM 270/2004 established the maximum number of examinations and the minimum number of ECTSs for core, characterizing, related and integrative activities. Thus, it led to the necessity of regulating the Academic System with particular reference to some scientific-disciplinary sectors, without however altering the essential structure of the Course. This satisfies the learning objectives of the LM-4 class, with particular attention to the modalities of intervention on the existing architectural and environmental heritage, and to the high-quality planning of new projects.
With reference to its name, the Degree Course has been recognized by the EU (MIUR communication, prot. N. 1647 of 12 July 2007) with the name “Architecture (Conservation)”, explicitly requested with the brackets by the European Committee.
2. 1 ECTS corresponds to 25 hours of the student’s total work, including activities in class and individual studying, divided equally.
3.The programme establishes a limited number of ECTSs (8), which can be acquired through elective units offered by the Course, by the Faculty or other Faculties of the University. The study plan, with the choice of elective units, must be approved by the President, in order to guarantee a congruent evaluation with the Programme with the Degree Course Teaching Committee.
Art. 2 – List of Units
1. The formative activities offered by the Degree Course in Architecture (Conservation), the curricula, the list of units for each course year, their arrangement in integrative units, the ECTSs assigned to each and the learning objectives of each unit are described in the charts in the Attachment to these Regulations.
2. The formative activities actually activated and any potential update to the Attachment, are notified through:
• the Ministry’s Education Offer database;
• the Study Manifesto of the Faculty of Architecture (administrative office of the Course);
• the Faculty’s website;
• the Degree’s website, on the Sapienza portal.
Art. 3 – ECTSs and Progression Requirements
1. There is the following Progression Requirement:
in order to take the Design Studio 2 exam, the student must have passed the Design Studio 1 exam.
Art. 4 – Choice exam
1. Within the units activated at Sapienza, students can choose activities for a total of 8 educational credits.
2. Students can choose between units from other Degree and Masters Degree Courses, activated in the Faculty, which present declaratories different from the mandatory units of the Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation). Students can also choose units of different Degrees and Masters Degrees of the University.
3. In alternative to this, the student can choose one of the Core elective Units (C), activated in the Masters Degree Course of Architecture (Conservation); in this case, the missing ECTSs can be obtained through the laboratory related to the chosen unit (however, ECTSs must be achieved for other formative activities).
4. If the student chooses elective units not activated in the Faculty, the Teaching Committee (or the President) will assess their coherence to the programme.
Art. 5 - Transfer from a different degree course
1. Access to the Masters Degree is restricted to a limited number of students, based on a national quota.
2. In order to enrol, therefore, students must pass an admission test, following the modalities and schedules established by current legislation, unless an admission test for the same Degree Class has been passed for the previous Degree Course.
Art. 6 – Teaching and assessment methods
1. Teaching is conventional in nature, and will unfold through lectures, laboratories, specialized seminars and midterm examinations. Formative activities unfold through single-subject units, integrated courses (made up of units from one or more scientific-disciplinary sectors), and laboratories.
2. The teaching of units is organized in two semesters.
3. The Masters Degree, within the two curricula, organises the distribution of more parallel units for each formative activity established in the Programme according to the number of students, in order to guarantee more efficiency. In particular, the maximum number of students for the laboratories is around 80, because of the laboratories’ practical and planning nature.
4. The exam (or proficiency test) verifies the achievement of each unit’s learning objectives, as according to the Manifesto.
5. With reference to the teaching laboratories and the units with integrated and coordinated units, which must be attended as a unified unit, each lecturer responsible for a course and unit participates in the collective assessment of the student’s advancement, following procedures established by the lecturers themselves. The assessment, which consists of the synthesis of the evaluations of each lecturer, will take the form of a single unified exam.
6. The examinations can be articulated in more than one moment of assessment or partial judgments.
7. The Examination Committees are nominated by the Head of Faculty, and must be made up of at least three members, of which at least one tenured. Experts in the subject can be part of the Committee upon motivated proposal of the unit director, approved by the Faculty Board. The office lasts one academic year.
8. The Committees have thirty points available to assess the student’s advancement. To pass the exam, the student must obtain at least eighteen points. Honours can be awarded with the unanimous approval of the present examiners.
9. All formative activities (courses, laboratories and integrative courses) have a final vote, with the exception of the proficiency test in foreign language and other formative activities as according to the art. 10 comma 5 lett. D ex DM 270/04.
Art. 7- Other formative activities
1. For students enrolled in the first year, from the academic year 2009-10, the rules to acquire the 2 ECTSs related to other formative activities are established with reference to the Education Offer below (choosing one between a, b, c):
a. internship activated in the Faculty;
b. practical specializations of the Faculty;
c. workshop, seminars, institutional courses (obtaining ECTSs either structured by the Faculty or certified by Institutions and Italian and foreign Universities, which might require validation).
2. For the validation of ECTSs, the following will be accepted: certifications of IT skills, of a second language, of participation to stages or internships, or other formative activities described in detail and supported by certifications which prove a minimum work of 50 hours.
Art. 8 – Final test
1. The dissertation is an original piece of work, completed individually on scientific and cultural themes agreed with the supervisor and related, for contents and methods, to the Degree Course.
2. The dissertation can be part of a larger work carried out in group and presented by more students graduating together, as long as the individual elaboration represents a significant, autonomous and discernible part, so that an independent assessment is possible.
3. The dissertation must be supervised by one or more lecturers, if the work is interdisciplinary or is concerned with more than one theme.
4. The collaboration of external experts as co-supervisors is allowed.
5. The dissertation can also arise out of and develop in the area of the activities of one of the units of the second year. 12 ECTSs will be awarded for the completion of the dissertation.
6. For issues related to the modalities of admission and to the composition of the Graduation Committee, see the Faculty Regulations.
Art. 9 – Rules for the progression to following years
1. Students can enrol in the second year after having acquired at least the attendance signatures to Design Studio 1.
Art. 10 – Attendance
1. Attendance is considered as necessary for a successful development of the curriculum; it is therefore strongly recommended, but it is mandatory only for the Laboratories. Each Laboratory director will verify the students’ active attendance. Students must obtain the active attendance certificate in order to take the exam.
2. As established in the University Regulations, part-time students’ attendance can be limited to a total of 45 ECTSs, that is to 30 ECTSs per year, according to type of part-time contract chosen by the student, as long as the reduced study-plan has been previously approved by the Study Course Council and with the same duties described in the previous comma.
Art. 11 – Validation of ECTSs acquired in other Faculties or Universities
1. Concerning the validation of exams passed in other Degree Courses in the Faculty of Architecture, within previous Academic Systems, in relation to the transfer to the Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation)– Academic System ex DM 270/04 – the Teaching Committee elaborates the conversion modalities for individual units, subjecting them to the approval of the Study Course Council and of the Study Course Teaching Committee, before the opening date of applications.
2. The forms with the approved equivalences, needed to request the recognition of passed exams, will be available on the Faculty’s website.
3. The modalities for the recognition of ECTSs acquired in other Universities are established by the Teaching Committee and refer to what is established in the University Teaching Regulations and in the current legislation.
4. We will seek to ensure that the maximum number possible of ECTSs are recognized, through a careful evaluation of the previous study plan.
Art. 12 – Integrative exams
1. The Study Course Teaching Committee can require the student to take integrative tests for exams he or she has already passed, when these have been passed more than six years ago and their cultural content is considered now as outdated.
Art. 13 – Support and Tutoring
1. Tutoring aims at supporting and helping students throughout their studies, making them actively participate in the formative process, removing the obstacles to a productive attendance to classes, also through activities related to the individual’s needs and preferences.
2. Tutoring activities are carried out by lecturers, according to the modalities established in the Study Course Council, ensuring the continuity, during the whole formative process, of the relationship between lecturer and student.
Art. 13 – Teaching staff
1. The list of lecturers, including their qualification and scientific-disciplinary sector, can be found in the Attachment to these Regulations.
2. Tenured lecturers cover the units related to the scientific-disciplinary sector they pertain to, within the limit of the minimum number of credits established in the art.1, comma 9, of the DD.MM, 16 March 2007.
Art. 14 – Validity of these Regulations
1. These Regulations apply to all the students enrolled to the Masters Degree Course, from the academic year 2013-14, and will be valid until the emanation of new Regulations.
2. Any issues related to the Regulations’ interpretation or application, due to the succession of Regulations in time, will be examined by the Study Course Council.
3. For anything not established in these Regulations that is concerned with academic activity, not exclusive to the University’s competence, see the Academic Area Regulations.
Art. 15 – Temporary norms
1. These Regulations can be extended to all the current students enrolled in the academic year 2017-18, regardless of their year of enrolment.
2. The possibility to keep the number of ECTSs acquired until the academic year 2015-16 will be guaranteed to all current in corso students, to which these Regulations apply, according to modalities established by the Study Course Teaching Committee and approved by the Faculty Teaching Committee and by the Faculty Board.
3. The students who, in the first year of application of these Regulations, will be fuori corso, can enrol to the last year of Course according to the new Academic System, no more as fuori corso. The possibility to keep the number of ECTSs acquired until the academic year 2015-16 will be guaranteed.
1. Within the units activated at Sapienza, students can choose activities for a total of 8 ECTSs.
2. Students can choose between units from other Degree and Masters Degree Courses, activated in the Faculty, which present declaratories different from the mandatory units of the Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation). Students can also choose units of different Degrees and Masters Degrees of the University.
3. In alternative to this, the student can choose one of the Core elective Units (C), activated in the Masters Degree Course of Architecture (Conservation); in this case, the missing ECTSs can be obtained through the laboratory related to the chosen unit (however, ECTSs must be achieved for other formative activities).
4. If the student chooses elective units not activated in the Faculty, the Teaching Committee (or the President) will assess their coherence to the programme.
Art. 5 - Transfer from a different degree course
1. Access to the Masters Degree is restricted to a limited number of students, based on a national quota.
2. In order to enrol, therefore, students must pass an admission test, following the modalities and schedules established by current legislation, unless an admission test for the same Degree Class has been passed for the previous Degree Course.
Art. 6 – Teaching and assessment methods
1. Teaching is conventional in nature, and will unfold through lectures, laboratories, specialized seminars and midterm examinations. Formative activities unfold through single-subject units, integrated courses (made up of units from one or more scientific-disciplinary sectors), and laboratories.
2. The teaching of units is organized in two semesters.
3. The Masters Degree, within the two curricula, organises the distribution of more parallel units for each formative activity established in the Programme according to the number of students, in order to guarantee more efficiency. In particular, the maximum number of students for the laboratories is around 80, because of the laboratories’ practical and planning nature.
4. The exam (or proficiency test) verifies the achievement of each unit’s learning objectives, as according to the Manifesto.
5. With reference to the teaching laboratories and the units with integrated and coordinated units, which must be attended as a unified unit, each lecturer responsible for a course and unit participates in the collective assessment of the student’s advancement, following procedures established by the lecturers themselves. The assessment, which consists of the synthesis of the evaluations of each lecturer, will take the form of a single unified exam.
6. The examinations can be articulated in more than one moment of assessment or partial judgments.
7. The Examination Committees are nominated by the Head of Faculty, and must be made up of at least three members, of which at least one tenured. Experts in the subject can be part of the Committee upon motivated proposal of the unit director, approved by the Faculty Board. The office lasts one academic year.
8. The Committees have thirty points available to assess the student’s advancement. To pass the exam, the student must obtain at least eighteen points. Honours can be awarded with the unanimous approval of the present examiners.
9. All formative activities (courses, laboratories and integrative courses) have a final vote, with the exception of the proficiency test in foreign language and other formative activities as according to the art. 10 comma 5 lett. D ex DM 270/04.
Art. 7- Other formative activities
1. For students enrolled in the first year, from the academic year 2009-10, the rules to acquire the 2 ECTSs related to other formative activities are established with reference to the Education Offer below (choosing one between a, b, c):
a. internship activated in the Faculty;
b. practical specializations of the Faculty;
c. workshop, seminars, institutional courses (obtaining ECTSs either structured by the Faculty or certified by Institutions and Italian and foreign Universities, which might require validation).
2. For the validation of ECTSs, the following will be accepted: certifications of IT skills, of a second language, of participation to stages or internships, or other formative activities described in detail and supported by certifications which prove a minimum work of 50 hours.
Art. 8 – Final test
1. The dissertation is an original piece of work, completed individually on scientific and cultural themes agreed with the supervisor and related, for contents and methods, to the Degree Course.
2. The dissertation can be part of a larger work carried out in group and presented by more students graduating together, as long as the individual elaboration represents a significant, autonomous and discernible part, so that an independent assessment is possible.
3. The dissertation must be supervised by one or more lecturers, if the work is interdisciplinary or is concerned with more than one theme.
4. The collaboration of external experts as co-supervisors is allowed.
5. The dissertation can also arise out of and develop in the area of the activities of one of the units of the second year. 12 ECTSs will be awarded for the completion of the dissertation.
6. For issues related to the modalities of admission and to the composition of the Graduation Committee, see the Faculty Regulations.
Art. 9 – Rules for the progression to following years
1. Students can enrol in the second year after having acquired at least the attendance signatures to Design Studio 1.
Art. 10 – Attendance
1. Attendance is considered as necessary for a successful development of the curriculum; it is therefore strongly recommended, but it is mandatory only for the Laboratories. Each Laboratory director will verify the students’ active attendance. Students must obtain the active attendance certificate in order to take the exam.
2. As established in the University Regulations, part-time students’ attendance can be limited to a total of 45 ECTSs, that is to 30 ECTSs per year, according to type of part-time contract chosen by the student, as long as the reduced study-plan has been previously approved by the Study Course Council and with the same duties described in the previous comma.
Art. 11 – Validation of ECTSs acquired in other Faculties or Universities
1. Concerning the validation of exams passed in other Degree Courses in the Faculty of Architecture, within previous Academic Systems, in relation to the transfer to the Masters Degree in Architecture (Conservation)– Academic System ex DM 270/04 – the Teaching Committee elaborates the conversion modalities for individual units, subjecting them to the approval of the Study Course Council and of the Study Course Teaching Committee, before the opening date of applications.
2. The forms with the approved equivalences, needed to request the recognition of passed exams, will be available on the Faculty’s website.
3. The modalities for the recognition of ECTSs acquired in other Universities are established by the Teaching Committee and refer to what is established in the University Teaching Regulations and in the current legislation.
4. We will seek to ensure that the maximum number possible of ECTSs are recognized, through a careful evaluation of the previous study plan.
Art. 12 – Integrative exams
1. The Study Course Teaching Committee can require the student to take integrative tests for exams he or she has already passed, when these have been passed more than six years ago and their cultural content is considered now as outdated.
Art. 13 – Support and Tutoring
1. Tutoring aims at supporting and helping students throughout their studies, making them actively participate in the formative process, removing the obstacles to a productive attendance to classes, also through activities related to the individual’s needs and preferences.
2. Tutoring activities are carried out by lecturers, according to the modalities established in the Study Course Council, ensuring the continuity, during the whole formative process, of the relationship between lecturer and student.
Art. 13 – Teaching staff
1. The list of lecturers, including their qualification and scientific-disciplinary sector, can be found in the Attachment to these Regulations.
2. Tenured lecturers cover the units related to the scientific-disciplinary sector they pertain to, within the limit of the minimum number of credits established in the art.1, comma 9, of the DD.MM, 16 March 2007.
Art. 14 – Validity of these Regulations
1. These Regulations apply to all the students enrolled to the Masters Degree Course, from the academic year 2013-14, and will be valid until the emanation of new Regulations.
2. Any issues related to the Regulations’ interpretation or application, due to the succession of Regulations in time, will be examined by the Study Course Council.
3. For anything not established in these Regulations that is concerned with academic activity, not exclusive to the University’s competence, see the Academic Area Regulations.
Art. 15 – Temporary norms
1. These Regulations can be extended to all the current students enrolled in the academic year 2017-18, regardless of their year of enrolment.
2. The possibility to keep the number of ECTSs acquired until the academic year 2015-16 will be guaranteed to all current in corso students, to which these Regulations apply, according to modalities established by the Study Course Teaching Committee and approved by the Faculty Teaching Committee and by the Faculty Board.
3. The students who, in the first year of application of these Regulations, will be fuori corso, can enrol to the last year of Course according to the new Academic System, no more as fuori corso. The possibility to keep the number of ECTSs acquired until the academic year 2015-16 will be guaranteed.
Le attività previste nel corso dei due anni sono articolate ed interrelate fra le discipline caratterizzanti e le affini ed integrative. Le prime saranno incentrate sulla capacità di lettura e interpretazione dei problemi attinenti all'architettura, all'urbanistica e soprattutto alle problematiche di conservazione e di restauro del patrimonio edilizio esistente. Un'adeguata preparazione è prevista, in specie, nelle discipline della progettazione architettonica (primo e secondo anno), dei metodi della storia dell'architettura (primo anno), del rilievo (primo anno), del progetto di restauro (secondo anno), della tecnica delle costruzioni (primo anno), della tecnologia dell'architettura (primo anno), della fisica tecnica (primo anno) e della gestione degli interventi di riqualificazione e di recupero edilizio e urbano e nei centri storici (secondo anno). Per le discipline affini si punta sull'acquisizione di ulteriori conoscenze applicative nel campo della diagnostica e degli aspetti tecnici del restauro (primo anno). Lo studente avrà la possibilità, tramite i crediti opzionali e la tesi di laurea, di personalizzare la propria formazione. Il Regolamento didattico del corso di studio definirà, nel rispetto dei limiti normativi, la quota dell'impegno orario complessivo a disposizione dello studente per lo studio personale o per altre attività formative di tipo individuale.
