UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA
“LA SAPIENZA”. FACOLTÀ DI ARCHITETTURA

COURSE IN 

URBAN MORPHOLOGY

A.Y. 2018/2019

prof. Giuseppe Strappa

arch. Anna Rita Donatella Amato

arch. Vincenzo Buongiorno

arch. Marta Crognale

arch. Cristian Sammarco

AIMS

The
course aims to teach a method of reading the built landscape through the
characters common to buildings and urban fabrics.Despite their
great variety and complexity, in such characters some common and continuous
formative principles can be recognized inside homogeneous areas. The
fundamental notions of organism and process will be used to read the built
landscape. The term "reading" does not indicate the simple and
neutral recording of phenomena, but requires the active contribution of the
reader, creating a synthesis of the will of the subject and the attitude of
'object.

The main
purpose of the typological study proposed by the course is precisely the
identification of the qualitative differences contained in the characters of
the built reality, the recognition of the process of their formation and
transformation, their internal dialectic of extensive exchanges and
integrations.

COURSE STRUCTURE

Each lesson
will be divided into two different parts:

1. the first aims to provide the student, through
   the morphological / processural method of Muratorian derivation, with the
   tools to recognize in the built reality the complex permanence of the
   notions of organism and process in the crisis circumstances induced by the
   contemporary condition;
2. the second will consist of a series of
   independent lectures given by external professors, or conferences of
   international experts in the Main Hall, on complementary subjects. The
   purpose of these lectures is to give a general idea of the contemporary
   studies on urban form through the knowledge of methods different from
   those followed by the course.

"Morphological walks" close to the Faculty of Architecture
will be organized in small groups to examine the fabrics and buildings under
study

PRACTICAL EXERCISES

The goals of the course will be pursued, as well as
through theoretical lectures, also through some practical exercises of redesigning that the student will have
to carry out with the assistance of the teachers.

The exercises can be carried out in groups up to a
maximum of three students.

EXAMINATION