Architectural Sciences

Educational objectives

The DESIGN STUDIO I is based on two courses: ELEMENTS FOR INTERPRETING THE URBAN LANDSCAPE (1st semester) and ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING 1 (2nd semester). Design studios are organized in "modules" subdivided in credits and intermediated tests, but the final exam is unique such as the final grade and will be referred to the entire design studio.

Design studios introduce students to specific design topics – yearly selected – interchanging speculative process of inquiry with practical experimentation. They involve knowledge acquisition and the development of drawing, conceptual, analytical and critique skills at the different scales of architecture, progressively integrating considerations related to the site, the precedents and to engineering, materials, social and economical issues.
At the end of design studios, the students which will have both attended classes and passed the final examination will have experienced a comprehensive design exercise manly focused on a specific design theme or a combination of topics and acquired methodologies replicable for other design assignments autonomously conducted. Although the specific references, literature and precedents (past and contemporary) provided by the teaching leaders and staff will be basically addressing the design theme yearly selected as well as as advanced information regarding its typological, morphological and functional characteristics, the design studios is a renewed opportunity to expand the intellectual commitment towards the works of masters of architecture and leading contemporary architects. Furthermore, as in every design exercise, students will test their advancement in 2D, 3D drawing and presentation skills. The final tables requested will include their design elaborations and will summarize the outcomes of the knowledge transferred and acquired.

The enhancement of students' knowledge and skills during tutorials, lecture-style classes, ex-tempore, assignments will provide them with a self-assessed awareness and budding critical tools to manage further design exercises.

Assessment of students’ knowledge and learning skills will be carried out primarily by means of ex-tempore, mid-term submissions and assignments both managed through on-site surveys and class-seminars.

Educational objectives

The aim of the course is to provide students with the main concepts about the architectural achievements between the end of the 18th century and the end of the 20th century. Exhaustive analysis of urban planning, formal, technical and constructive issues, as well as assessments of contemporary social, political and economic conditions will give the students the necessary instruments to place their architectural knowledge in a conscious historical perspective.

At the end of this course, students who will have both attended classes and passed the final examination, will master the general outlines of the architectural history, including the most significant buildings and the principal architects of the relevant historical period for this course.
Students will manage the specific technical lexicon with a view to correctly describe historical buildings, not only in respect of their general characteristics, but also regarding their constructive, distributive and decorative elements, as well as their historical and physical context. In this framework, students will also have to be able to make drawings.
Taking as a basis the bibliography of reference for the present course and the materials provided to them during classes, students will be able to autonomously study subject matters of relevance and produce summary works (short papers, PowerPoint presentations) accordingly.

Knowledge and skills that will be acquired by students both during lecture-style classes, and by means of workshop, graphic and theoretical exercise, in mid-term test and in-depth study will make them capable to autonomously assess all the buildings of the historical period of relevance for the purposes of this course with a particular care for their main characteristics and design problematics.

Assessment of students’ knowledge and learning skills will be carried out primarily by means of exam tests.

Educational objectives

With the dual purpose of rigorously developing abstraction skills and of providing basic tools that are fundamental for various science exams, the course envisages the study of the following subjects. In the algebra-geometry area: linear algebra: study of linear systems and properties of matrices; vector spaces; basic operations on vectors, with their applications; plane and space analytic geometry: study of planes and lines. In Analysis: differential and integral calculus for functions of a real variable: continuous functions, derivative functions, qualitative properties and significant theorems, definite and indefinite integrals.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide students the ability to imagine and to control the space through the graphic representation, meaning for it the transposition on the two-dimensional plane (drawing sheet) of the three-dimensional reality. The observation in real life of an architectural form, its discretization and its projection on the picture plane are the fundamental principles of scientific representation both graphic and digital.

At the end of the course the student will know the principles and theories at the base of the graphic representation methods by means of which he will be able to control and represent the different phases of the design process: from the initial sketches, to the drafting of the documents for the metrical control (plants, elevations and sections) up to the perceptual control of the form (perspectives and axonometric views). Furthermore, the knowledge of the geometric foundations of representation is essential to the formation of a critical and autonomous capacity necessary to face the problems related to the representation and control of an architectural space.
The skills acquired will accompany the student in subsequent studies and may therefore be able to communicate, even with the correct graphic conventions applied to the various scales, the form of both an object already created and an object designed by him.

Educational objectives

The aim of the course is to give the students the opportunity to improve their international communicative skills through the course of English and the practical exercises held by a linguistic expert, focused on the technical terminology. Assessment of students’ knowledge and learning skills will be carried out by means of qualifying test.

Students who passed the qualifying test have a good level of oral and written expression and comprehension. They can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions concerning Architecture. They manage the disciplinary terminology and can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity describing: type of structures, parts of a building, landscape, materials, elements of construction, drawings, historical elements. They can autonomously produce clear text on a wide range of architectural subjects and explain a viewpoint on a design (main characteristics, advantages and design problems).

Educational objectives

The DESIGN STUDIO I is based on two courses: ELEMENTS FOR INTERPRETING THE URBAN LANDSCAPE (1st semester) and ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING 1 (2nd semester). Design studios are organized in "modules" subdivided in credits and intermediated tests, but the final exam is unique such as the final grade and will be referred to the entire design studio.

Design studios introduce students to specific design topics – yearly selected – interchanging speculative process of inquiry with practical experimentation. They involve knowledge acquisition and the development of drawing, conceptual, analytical and critique skills at the different scales of architecture, progressively integrating considerations related to the site, the precedents and to engineering, materials, social and economical issues.
At the end of design studios, the students which will have both attended classes and passed the final examination will have experienced a comprehensive design exercise manly focused on a specific design theme or a combination of topics and acquired methodologies replicable for other design assignments autonomously conducted. Although the specific references, literature and precedents (past and contemporary) provided by the teaching leaders and staff will be basically addressing the design theme yearly selected as well as as advanced information regarding its typological, morphological and functional characteristics, the design studios is a renewed opportunity to expand the intellectual commitment towards the works of masters of architecture and leading contemporary architects. Furthermore, as in every design exercise, students will test their advancement in 2D, 3D drawing and presentation skills. The final tables requested will include their design elaborations and will summarize the outcomes of the knowledge transferred and acquired.

The enhancement of students' knowledge and skills during tutorials, lecture-style classes, ex-tempore, assignments will provide them with a self-assessed awareness and budding critical tools to manage further design exercises.

Assessment of students’ knowledge and learning skills will be carried out primarily by means of ex-tempore, mid-term submissions and assignments both managed through on-site surveys and class-seminars.

Educational objectives

Objective of the course is to lead student, through theoretical bases of materials, elements and construction technologies of architecture, to acquire knowledge of tools for recognising, classifying and managing main qualitative characteristics regarding quality, dimensions, assembly and compatibility of materials and components. At the end of the course, students will have to demonstrate that they have developed the ability to recognize and evaluate specific qualities of materials and construction elements that characterize systems, techniques and construction procedures in relation to contexts of different complexity, referring to peculiar case studies.

Knowledge and understanding
At the end of course, student has learned knowledge and understanding, as well as skills that allow supporting, from a theoretical-methodological point of view, technological and construction knowledge. Students have to acquire an adequate and specific knowledge of materials, systems and techniques used to work on built environment. Assessment of knowledge will be carried out through in progress case studies analyses and final examination test.

Applying knowledge and understanding
Student has to demonstrate mastery of an integrated approach to finalise knowledge learned, to solve complex problems related to design process, technical information management and ability to choose materials, systems and components.
In particular, student is able to assess integrated and multi-scale interventions, using methods, techniques and tools learned.
These skills will be verified through activities aimed at developing capacity for individual and group approach to application and professional problems.

Making judgements
Student has to demonstrate ability to learn, evaluate and revise knowledge and experiences in order to form an independent and original judgment. In particular, student should be adopting skills in autonomous selection of detailing innovative, compatible and sustainable solutions.
Achievement of these critical and autonomous judgement skills will be learned during experimental activities through simulations in different case studies.

Communication skills
Students will have to demonstrate the ability in technical communication of theoretical, methodological and process competence, using advanced and multimedia tools for technical information management and verbal and written infographic language.
Achievement of these skills will be learned during experimental activities, which ensure full control of specific expressive and illustrative skills.

Learning skills
Students have to demonstrate a full capacity for autonomous knowledge process, which will allow them to update and increase skills in the approach to environmental technological design.
Acquisition of these skills will take place through specific theoretical contributions given during the course, aimed at broadening framework of skills to access innovative methodologies, tools and applications and through constant participation in experimental activities, dialectical field of knowledge learned assessment. Assessment of learning skills will take place, above all, in exam test finalised to highlight autonomy in knowledge-learned management.

Educational objectives

The course provides a framework for urban planning in its theoretical foundations and as an articulated corpus of approaches, tools, and practices, providing essential legislative references within a general framework.

The roots of modern urban planning are presented in historical perspective, along with its principal modes of action over time. The history of urban planning is connected to the history of the city, showing reciprocal influences and impacts. The course introduces the main urban theories to help understand how the primary object of urban planning changes according to different interpretations; at the same time, urban themes are framed and linked to environmental, ecological, and landscape issues, which are essential for understanding the complex and systemic nature of the urban planning approach. The course touches upon the many different subjects involved in urban and territorial transformation: institutions, technicians and professionals, civil society, and individuals; it explores how growing social pluralism represents a challenge for urban planning, which must be able to direct and manage multiple instances and actions of even opposing nature, and how, for its legitimation, it must always be able to account for choices, justified in the name of public or collective interest.

By the end of the course, students will have acquired operational and critical skills to address complex urban planning issues, aware of the system of rules and procedures to follow and reference, the current tools available, capable of identifying the most appropriate scale for specific problems, and also of reasoning at different scales. Some transversal competencies will also be enhanced, related to critical abilities and judgment on the effects of transformation choices, to the abilities to communicate what has been learned, and to the capacity to continue studying autonomously.

Educational objectives

Knowledge and comprehension:
Scope of the course is providing knowledge about the physics that applies to buildings and their systems and interactions between man, building and ambient. The course aims at providing comprehension about heat transfer, fundamentals of energy and thermodynamics, methods for quantifying light and colours, methods for quantifying sound and noise.
Skills in applying knowledge and comprehension:
At the end of the course the student will be able to calculate heat transfer through building envelope in standard cases (e.g. Thermal transmittance) and in peculiar configurations. He will be able to calculate lighting designing artificial lighting systems. He will be able to understand the meaning of data sheets of building materials and components regarding heat transfer and noise. Moreover, he will be able to understand data sheets of lighting devices.
Ability to study further autonomously during life:
The arguments in the course are presented explaining the physical laws from whom the calculation methods come from, providing the skill to further study the subjects autonomously, according to the needs that will come out in subsequent studies and in work.

Educational objectives

The course is divided into two specific sections: Antiquity, from Hellenic to Roman, Tardoantica and Paleocristiana architecture; the Middle-Ages, from Carolingia to Tardogotica architecture. The aims of the course are to provide a general background by analysing the most important works and their contexts, and, at the same time, to offer the students the necessary instruments and analytical methods necessary for the study and knowledge of the chosen topics.

At the end of this course, students who will have both attended classes and passed the final examination, will master the general outlines of the architectural history, including the most significant buildings of the period. Students will manage the specific technical lexicon with a view to correctly describe historical buildings, not only in respect of their general characteristics, but also regarding their constructive, distributive and decorative elements. Taking as a basis the bibliography of reference for the present course and the materials provided to them during classes, students will be able to autonomously study subject matters of relevance.

Knowledge and skills that will be acquired by students both during lecture-style classes and by means of in-depth study will make them capable to autonomously assess all the buildings of the historical period of relevance for the purposes of this course.

Assessment of students’ knowledge and learning skills will be carried out primarily by means of exam tests.

Educational objectives

The course aims at supplying the principles of mechanics and structural modelling, aimed at studying the structural behaviour of the current buildings, with particular emphasis on structures of historical or monumental interest. Structures perceived as systems of rigid bodies are taken into account, addressing the analysis of the structural elements that form parts of more complex architectures. In order to present the problems of design and structural verification, the main concepts related to systems of rigid and deformable beams are also introduced.
The students will acquire: ability to choose the most appropriate theoretical models to address the analysis of real structures; ability to perform numerical analyses on basic structural problems, to interpret data and draw conclusions; understanding the main structural analysis techniques and their limits; skills needed to undertake further advanced courses on structural engineering.

Educational objectives

The course aims at teaching skills in understanding three dimensional forms and spaces in relation to specific geometrical aspects, which allow a correct graphic representation on plane, and to acquire the understanding of the relation between drawing and reality. The study of lines, of surfaces and their properties, together with other topics of descriptive geometry, contributes to the formation of a critical ability to control the constructed and designed architectural form. Learning the digital methods of representation is aimed at acquiring an adequate awareness of the use of the IT tools with which the architect works today. In this way the student will have the necessary autonomy to be able to examine and solve the problems of representation and communication of the architectural form, typical of the different design phases. At the end of the course the student will be able to undertake the following studies applying the acquired knowledge with a high degree of autonomy.

Educational objectives

The purpose of including two elective courses in the curriculum is to allow students to integrate their skills through the study of related disciplines.
The knowledge acquired, the student's autonomy in study and judgment, and the student's ability to express themselves will be assessed using the methods specific to the chosen disciplinary field.

Educational objectives

The Design studio II is based on two modules: BASED CHARACTERISTICS OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT and ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING , both in the 2nd semester.
Design studios are organized in "modules" subdivided in credits and intermediated tests, but the final exam is unique such as the final grade and will be referred to the entire design studio.

Design studios introduce students to specific design topics – yearly selected – interchanging speculative process of inquiry with practical experimentation. They involve knowledge acquisition and the development of drawing, conceptual, analytical and critique skills at the different scales of architecture, progressively integrating considerations related to the site, the precedents and to engineering, materials, social and economical issues.
At the end of design studios, the students which will have both attended classes and passed the final examination will have experienced a comprehensive design exercise manly focused on a specific design theme or a combination of topics and acquired methodologies replicable for other design assignments autonomously conducted. Although the specific references, literature and precedents (past and contemporary) provided by the teaching leaders and staff will be basically addressing the design theme yearly selected as well as as advanced information regarding its typological, morphological and functional characteristics, the design studios is a renewed opportunity to expand the intellectual commitment towards the works of masters of architecture and leading contemporary architects. Furthermore, as in every design exercise, students will test their advancement in 2D, 3D drawing and presentation skills. The final tables requested will include their design elaborations and will summarize the outcomes of the knowledge transferred and acquired.

The enhancement of students' knowledge and skills during tutorials, lecture-style classes, ex-tempore, assignments will provide them with a self-assessed awareness and budding critical tools to manage further design exercises.
Assessment of students’ knowledge and learning skills will be carried out primarily by means of ex-tempore, mid-term submissions and assignments both managed through on-site surveys, elearning platforms and class-seminars.

Educational objectives

The aim of the course is to provide future architects with the methodological and operational tools, normative and procedural references that will enable them to properly address and solve the problems of estimation that will arise during their professional activity. In particular, the course will provide the knowledge needed to estimate market value and costs, as well as the economic and financial evaluation of urban and territorial interventions and the selection of the best project solution in the field of requalification and valorisation of public and private assets. Students will be able to interact in complex multi-actor contexts, with institutional interlocutors and representatives of the economic and social world, urban planning, civil engineering and the economy, in order to obtain economic and financial benefits in the public and private sectors.

Educational objectives

The student will attain a fair knowledge of linear algebra, differential and integral calculus for functions of several real variables and differential equations. In this way he will achieve both the basic mathematical tools used in Strength of the materials and introductory notions to be used in more advanced and specific topics

Educational objectives

The purpose of including two elective courses in the curriculum is to allow students to integrate their skills through the study of related disciplines.
The knowledge acquired, the student's autonomy in study and judgment, and the student's ability to express themselves will be assessed using the methods specific to the chosen disciplinary field.

Educational objectives

The aim of the internship is to give the student the opportunity to come into contact with the professional environment to facilitate future employment opportunities.

Educational objectives

The course aims to illustrate the history of architecture and urban areas in Italy between the 15th and 18th Centuries by presenting a critical and scientific approach to theoretical and practical work of the main protagonists, providing an in-depth analysis of the most significant architectural expression. Particular attention will be paid to the major artistic and cultural centres, taking the widest historical context and patronage.

At the end of this course, students who will have both attended classes and passed the final examination, will master the general outlines of the architectural history, including the most significant buildings and the principal architects of the relevant historical period for this course. Students will manage the specific technical lexicon with a view to correctly describe historical buildings, not only in respect of their general characteristics, but also regarding their constructive, distributive and decorative elements, as well as their historical and physical context. In this framework, students will also have to be able to make drawings.

Taking as a basis the bibliography of reference for the present course and the materials provided to them during classes, students will be able to autonomously study subject matters of relevance and produce summary works accordingly.

Knowledge and skills that will be acquired by students both during lecture-style classes and by means of graphical exercises and in-depth study will make them capable to autonomously assess all the buildings of the historical period of relevance for the purposes of this course with a particular care for their main characteristics and design problematics.

Assessment of students’ knowledge and learning skills will be carried out primarily by means of exam tests.

Educational objectives

The course has the double aim of giving the tools for structural design and of encouraging abstract reasoning, which plays a decisive role in every composition process. The topics addressed are: kinematics and statics of elastic solids and structures; investigation on materials; theory of structures; elements of stability. Special attention is given to fundamental laws of mechanics and their historical evolution. The practical knowledge is developed through the solution of simple analysis and design problems. At the end of the course the student shall has an understanding of structural forms and functions, the ability to design simple structures, the capacity to critically interpret the results of computer aided computations. The focus of the course is on: theory of elastic beam and system of beams (statically determinate and indeterminate); Cauchy’s continuum; problem of Saint Venant.

Educational objectives

The DESIGN STUDIO III is articulated in two complementary modules or teaching slots, both in the 1st semester: ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING III (ICAR 14) and INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE (ICAR 16).
Design studios are organized in modules subdivided in credits and intermediated tests, but the final exam is unique such as the final grade and will be referred to the entire design studio.

Design studios introduce students to specific design topics – yearly selected – interchanging speculative process of inquiry with practical experimentation. They involve knowledge acquisition and the development of drawing, conceptual, analytical and critique skills at the different scales of architecture, progressively integrating considerations related to the site, the precedents and to engineering, materials, social and economical issues.
At the end of design studios, the students which will have both attended classes and passed the final examination will have experienced a comprehensive design exercise manly focused on a specific design theme or a combination of topics and acquired methodologies replicable for other design assignments autonomously conducted. Although the specific references, literature and precedents (past and contemporary) provided by the teaching leaders and staff will be basically addressing the design theme yearly selected as well as as advanced information regarding its typological, morphological and functional characteristics, the design studios is a renewed opportunity to expand the intellectual commitment towards the works of masters of architecture and leading contemporary architects. Furthermore, as in every design exercise, students will test their advancement in 2D, 3D drawing and presentation skills. The final tables requested will include their design elaborations and will summarize the outcomes of the knowledge transferred and acquired.

The enhancement of students' knowledge and skills during tutorials, lecture-style classes, ex-tempore, assignments will provide them with a self-assessed awareness and budding critical tools to manage further design exercises.
Assessment of students’ knowledge and learning skills will be carried out primarily by means of ex-tempore, mid-term submissions and assignments both managed through on-site surveys, elearning platforms and class-seminars.

Educational objectives

The aim of the course is to guarantee competences in the visual and graphic analysis of monuments and in their historical-critical study, with particular attention to the constructive elements. The analysis of the constructive aspects of historical buildings is connected to the expressive components of architectural language and concerns specific aspects such as structures, metrology, proportional research and geometric layouts. A part of the course is reserved to the analysis of the different theoretical positions towards the pre-existences, articulated over time, carried out above all in relation to the concept of 'restoration' (and also ‘maintenance’, ‘conservation’, ‘recovery’, ‘restoration’), seen in a historical perspective and up to its current development. During the seminar activities, reviewing the project drawings, the student will have to explain the different phases of analysis of the monument and of the proposal elaboration, so as to refine the communication skills related to the specific aspects of architecture in general and of conservation in particular. At the end of the course the student will have acquired skills useful for the preparation of appropriate conservation proposals, also thanks to the preparation of graphics and design projects that allow to retrace critically what has been acquired in the various courses and to apply it in his own conservation proposal of a historic/artistic building. This experience allows the student to develop transversal skills and to learn how to elaborate, independently, what he has learned, enhancing the ability to continue the study of conservation and of the constructive characteristics of architecture in an independent way.

Educational objectives

The aim of the Course is to strengthen the knowledge already acquired in the previous Course of Fundamentals OF URBAN PLANNING/ TOWN PLANNING LEGISLATION AND TERRITORIAL GOVERNEMENT in order to fully develop the ability to define a landscape and territorial project at large area scale. Specific attention will be given to the deepening of the analytical dimensions and intervention tools related to the most relevant environmental and landscape challenges. Therefore, in the first part of the course, adequate tools for tackling this level of knowledge (also through the case-studies and projects of existing territories) will be provided. In the second part, students will do design practice by using the acquired knowledge for designing and developing a territorial or landscape project. At the end of the Course, students will be able to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired according to some practical skills related to the design and transformation at the territory and landscape scale. Moreover, within this Course, some cross-cutting skills will be enhanced through activities connecting the different cultural or scientific areas, such as: - critical and judgemental skills about plans and projects of intervention at the territorial and landscape scale, in relation to requested written and/or oral observations and comments; - capacity to communicate projects and proposals of intervention for specific territorial and environmental contexts; - ability to complete the study in an autonomous way during one's professional life, by experimenting different strategies of territorial and landscape planning.

Educational objectives

Specific objective of course is to provide methodologies and critical tools necessary for understanding issues of Architecture Technology with particular reference to building feasibility, so that there is a consistent operational continuity between decision-making phase of design choices and building "technical realization" phase. Difficulties of obtaining and managing complete informations on technologies, that are continuously placed on the market, the difficulty of knowing in depth the conditions that constrain and determine the way of carrying out building works, often hinder a systemic vision of relationships that exist between materials and construction technologies. In the light of these assumptions, the course aims to focus attention on issues to ensure processing of technological culture, oriented towards skills in reading, controlling and managing tools oriented to design technological choices and to provide a correct approach within decision-making process.

Educational objectives

The final text is an individual exam and consists of the preparation, editing and presentation of an original assignment.
The theme of the assignment is agreed upon with the thesis advisor and shall be coherent, for contents and methods, to the general objectives of the Degree Course: it can be a experimental or theoretical design project or a critical re-edition of the curriculum (curricular thesis, portfolio).

The scope of the final thesis exam is that the student demonstrates the acquisition during the three-year course improvement and autonomy in learning and in developing critical skills, such as and the ability to manage an effective communication of the theoretical, methodological, technical and design knowledge acquired during the education process.