Design Workshop Naples: Archaeological Sites and Urban Context

Recommended Prerequisites

Education of bachelor level in the areas of Architecture or Archaelogy.

Teaching Methods

The workshop will include diverse activities: theoretical communications, surveys and practical work hours. The workshop activities are interdisciplinary and include a direct comparison with the Archaeological Superintendence of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Learning Outcomes

The workshop is a time of consolidation and control of theoretical contents acquired during the first semester, the achievement of new capacities closely related to the action on the field, the development of a methodology that you can find in the subsequent laboratory activities and in the development of themes of the thesis research. The objective of the workshop is, therefore, to develop new design skills through theoretical, experimental activities and direct field visit, in close relation to the continuous excavation, restoration, upgrading landscaping, urban integration, accessibility improvement.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The workshop focuses on the topic of ''Archaeological Survey and Architectural Program for the city of Pompeii "and it develops through the following design themes:

a) relations of the archeological city with the outside (to the north with the agricultural landscape, to the south with residual public spaces, to the west with infrastructure, to the east with the consolidated city);

b) internal relations within the archaeological city (excavations in progress and planned, completed or implemented restorations, consolidation activities and landscape restoration; interventions for improving accessibility and usability);

c) the specific relations with the archaeological ruin (interventions on artifact made in their physical dimension and meaning, to be valorized).

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 30.0%
Project: 70.0%

Bibliography

Linazasoro  Jose-Ignacio, La memoria dell’ordine. I paradossi dell’architettura moderna, LetteraVentidue, 2015.

Barbanera M. (a cura di), Relitti riletti, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2011.

Linazasoro  Jose-Ignacio, Rovine, In Ricomporre la rovina, 17, Edited by Andrea Ugolini, Florence: Alinea, 2010.

R. Francovich e D. Manacorda (a cura di), Dizionario di archeologia. Temi, concetti e metodi, Roma-Bari, Editori Laterza, 2009.

Ricci Andreina, Attorno alla nuda pietra, Rome: Donzelli Editore, 2006.

Franco C., Massarente A., Trisciuoglio M. (a cura di), L’antico e il nuovo. Il rapporto tra città antica e architettura contemporanea, UTET Libreria, Torino 2002.

Manieri Elia M., Topos e progetto. Temi di archeologia urbana a Roma, Gangemi Editore, Roma 1998.