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2007 > 2008
The Faculty of Architecture

Dean: Giacomo Borruso giacomo.borruso@arch.units.it Contact details: Via SantAnastasio 12, 34127 Trieste, Italy. Tel.: +39 040 558 2753 / 2782 fax: +39 040 558 2754 Office hours: Monday and Thursday from 15.00 to 16.00 Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 9.00 to 10.30. Telephoning times: Monday to Friday from 11.00 to 13.00 Student administration secretary: piazzale Europa 1, 34127 Trieste - tel.: +39 040 558 3228 architettura.Students@amm.units.it Web site: www.units.it/architet/ Free-phone number: 800 236916
> Degree programmes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------First level degree (three years) Specialisation degree
Architecture The Science of Architecture
faculty of architecture
Master
I level Project Management Expert in the management of projects in the construction sector. Sustainable transport, Geographic information, Logistics and Economic integration in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Yacht and cruise vessel design.
> Teaching Staff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Benussi Fausto Borruso Giacomo Di Biagi Paola Fasoli Vilma Fraziano Giovanni Garofolo Ilaria Prestamburgo Sonia
Emeritus Professor
Roberto Costa
Boccazzi Barbara Cantatore Giovanni Gattesco Natalino Marras Giovanni Pratali Maffei Sergio Torbianelli Vittorio Alberto
Associate Professors
Full Professors
Researchers
Corbellini Giovanni Guaragna Gianfranco Marchigiani Elena Marin Alessandra Sdegno Alberto
> Joint Didactic Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Teaching Staff

Corbellini Giovanni, Guaragna Gianfranco, Prestamburgo Sonia
Furlan Fabrizio, Pirani Aglaia, Tosatto Alessandro
External Members
Cherin Diego
> Student Procedures Commission ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Teaching Staff

Borruso Giacomo, Cantatore Giovanni, Corbellini Giovanni
Bertazzolo Diego, Sasco Andrea
External Member
Zampollo Marina
Students
Students
> Student Representatives ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bertazzolo Diego, Furlan Fabrizio, Pirani Aglaia, Sasco Andrea, Tosatto Alessandro
> Tutors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Biondi Sandra, Giachin Marina, MalabottaJan, Ruzzier Elisa www.units.it/architet/facolta/tutorindex.htm architutor@units.it
International mobility delegate

Garofolo Ilaria www.univ.trieste.it/~architet/Students/indexerasmus.htm erasmus@arch.units.it
Teaching staff
Corbellini Giovanni, Garofolo Ilaria, Torbianelli Vittorio Alberto
Students
Furlan Fabrizio
> International Relations Commission - Erasmus/Socrates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Guidance Commission ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Commission guidance delegate

Torbianelli Vittorio Alberto
Teaching staff
Marras Giovanni, Torbianelli Vittorio Alberto
Students
Tosatto Alessandro
Teaching staff
Guaragna Gianfranco, Marras Giovanni, Pratali Maffei Sergio
> Training Commission -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Curriculum for the Science of Architecture degree (three year) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class 4 Science of Architecture and Architectural/Building Engineering Faculty: Architecture Location: Trieste Web site: www.univ.trieste.it/architet
Specific didactic aims

The three year degree course in The Science of Architecture creates a professional figure that, in line with the educational aims of the class, must: - have an adequate knowledge of architectural composition, architectural building history, the tools and the procedures for representation, the methodological-functional aspects of mathematics and the other core sciences and be able to use this knowledge to interpret and describe architectural, urban planning and building problems; -have adequate knowledge of the methodological-functional aspects relative to the characterising fields of the course followed and to be able to identify, formulate and resolve architectural, urban planning and building problems using up-to-date methods, techniques and tools. - have adequate knowledge of the aspects regarding technical and economic feasibility, cost calculation and the process of production and creation of constructions and urban planning activities; - to be able to use the techniques and tools of construction planning - to be able to communicate effectively, both in writing and speech,
in at least one European Union language other than Italian. The curriculum foresees the attainment of credits through the attendance and passing of exams relating to mono-disciplinary, compulsory and optional courses, and relating to workshop disciplines: Year I: Architectural planning workshop I Year II: Architectural planning workshop II Architectural construction workshop I Urban planning workshop I Economics workshop Year III: Architectural planning workshop III Architectural construction workshop II Urban planning workshop II Restoration workshop Teaching activities are carried out over two semesters per year. Time for personal study or other educational activity of an individual nature is equal to at least 50% of the total hourly commitment, with the possibility of a lower percentage for individual educational activities with high experimental or practical contents.
The course will end with a discussion of a project or of an in-depth-study, referring to the various workshops or with a thesis, that could have original and/or experimental character.
Characteristics of the final examination
Professional aims
The course is orientated towards the education of a professional figure capable of: - knowing and understanding architectural works both in their logical-formal, componential, expressive, typological-distributive, structural, constructive, technological aspects and in their relationships with the historical, physical and environmental context. - knowing and understanding the physical-spatial and organisational characters of an environmental context, in its natural and anthropic components and in relation with historical changes, and with the socio-economic and territorial context to which it belongs and to achieve this through the analysis of the geo-morphological, vegetation, and settlement characteristics - knowing and understanding a building, in relation to its origins and successive historical changes and to the settlement context to which it belongs, and to achieve this through the analysis of the characteristics of the materials that it is made of and the condition of the statics of the structures.
Foreseen work environments for graduates

The educational activities that characterise the course aim at the acquisition of specific competences that will allow the carrying out of activities connected with: - architectural and urban planning in various environments and levels of application. - the analysis/assessment, interpretation/representation, planning/management of the changes of areas of prevailing natural valence and the management of the technical-administrative and productive processes connected to it. - the definition, propaedeutical to the project, of the activities ai-
med at halting the processes of degeneration and disorder of built objects and environmental contexts, the elimination of contamination and their causes, as well as the technical direction of the technical-administrative and the productive processes connected to it. Graduates in The Science of Architecture will be able to practise their abilities at public corporations, public and private companies, engineering companies, sector industries and construction companies, also as freelance professionals and consulting activities.
Required knowledge for access art.6 D.M. 509/99

(for which there is an examination) Students that intend to join the degree course must have acquired: - the tool of logic and an essential historical and cultural awareness - the ability to determine data from a problem and use it to reach a solution; - the ability to understand speech and to summarise a written text; - the ability to use the tools of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry; - the ability to interpret simple designs and to represent a threedimensional shape.
Current curricula 2007- 2008*

TEACHING I year Architectural planning workshop I Architectural composition 1 Typological and morphological character of architecture Drawing Representation techniques 1 Basic Scientific Workshop I Fundamental Mathematics 1 Fundamental Mathematics 2 General Physics 1 Fundamental computer scienc Automated design History of architecture 1 History of art Advanced modelling seminar English Planning Workshop Total I year II year Basic Scientific Workshop II Descriptive geometry General physics 2 CREDITS 17 6 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 6 4 3 3 2 55
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Economics Workshop Foundations of economics and valuation Design economics Architectural planning workshop II Architectural composition 2 Architectural design theories and techniques 1 Representation techniques 2 Seminars Construction techniques 1 Statics Architectural construction workshop I Architectural technique Architectural surveying Science and technology of materials Urban planning workshop I Urban planning 1 Fundamental Urban planning Urban planning theory 1 History of Architecture 2 Total II year III year Architectural planning workshop III Architectural composition 3 Distribution characteristics of buildings Interior design Seminars
8 4 4 13 4 3 4 2 4 4
10 4 3 3 6 64 12 4 3 3 2
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Architectural construction workshop II Construction techniques 2 Physics techniques Building scheduling and costs Urban planning workshop II Urban planning 2 Urban planning techniques Restoration workshop Architectural restoration Restoration theory and history Consolidation of historic buildings Theory and history of industrial design Student optional courses Final exam Total III year
11 4 4 3 7 4 3 12 6 3 3 4 9 6 61
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> Architectural specialisation degree -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class 4/S - Science of Architecture and Architectural/Building Engineering Location: Trieste Course web site: www.univ.trieste.it/architet
Specific didactic aims

Graduates must: - know architectural composition and planning, urban planning techniques and planning, the aspects regarding the construction and economic feasibility of works and projects; - be able to determine the role of the different disciplines in the transformation of sites, cities, territories, considering, via the knowledge of history and planning theory, the civil function of architecture, the permanence and temporality of the construction, as well as the rhetorical and expressive forms connected to it.
Characteristics of the final examination

The course will end with a discussion of a project in the final summary workshop, according to the aims herein indicated, or a technical-experimental thesis connected to topics of particular importance to the discipline.
Foreseen work environments for graduates

The degree aims to educate architects capable of creating architectural works appropriate in terms of composition, construction, typology-distribution, technology and form. Through a critical atten-
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tion of the needs expressed by the company to contemporaneously be capable of acting on, interpreting and adequately modifying the historical, physical and environmental context. The task of the graduate is to prepare architectural designs, or urban and territorial works; direct the planning of them and coordinate their execution, and, where necessary, other specialists and workers.
Current curricula 2007- 2008*

TEACHING I year Architectural planning workshop IV Architectural planning Theory and techniques of architectural design 2 Landscape architecture Architectural construction workshop III Large structure architecture Steel construction theory and project Structural problems with historic buildings Structure project Urban planning workshop III Urban planning 3 Analysis of the city and territory Environmental economics and valuation Economics of the city and territory workshop Urban and metropolitan transport Urban economy Transport economic CREDITS 18 8 6 4 16 4 4 4 4 12 4 4 4 12 4 4 4
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History of the city and territory Total I year II year Architectural planning workshop V Architectural composition and planning Architecture of large structure and large infrastructure systems Territorial planning Representation techniques 3 Aesthetics Student options Final summary workshop Design training (internship) Final examination Total II year
4 62 24 8 6 6 4 4 6 7 8 9 58
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> Teaching description of Science of Architecture degree ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Architectural Planning Workshop I

Credits CFU: 17 Year: I Duration: year Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 170 hours (50 hours lectures, 120 workshop) Number of hours per week: first semester 2 hours (one day a week), second semester 10 hours (over two days) Course type: project work and theory Examination method: Possible additional activities: Beyond the 2 weeks of project work foreseen during the course for year I and the various lectures and conferences to which from time to time the students are students are invited to participate in, there is also foreseen a study-trip abroad, organised by the architectural planning workshop 1, but also open to students from other years. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The teaching aims to guide the students in the acquisition of some categories of observation and description of architectural built objects through the experience of the most elementary tools that from their creation carry out construction. After bringing together all the parts that make up the relationships between the various components of the architectural project discipline, the students will be expected to go over the poetic vision of a future world traceable in the writings and in the works of the experts studied in the course typological and morphological cha-
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racters of architecture. In close collaboration with the Drawing and Representation techniques teaching staff, via the direct experience of an architectural text chosen from those offered, the students will be expected to recognise the technical-normative elements, the composition and figurative elements, the architectural character in reference to the complex identity of the place and personalities that the architecture was destined for. The student will therefore be called individually to describe and formulate an architectural idea that is materialised in the project. In this stage of experimentation Drawing and Representation Techniques will run along side architectural composition at the control of the project-process (from the plan to the construction of the space) and at the configuration/representation of the architectural project in different scales (from the whole to details). Contents: In the workshop the theme of the project is seen as the pretext to thoroughly surveying the constituent principles of the architectural form, the rules and the necessary reasons for its definition, and to attempt a consideration on the living sense of construction and dwelling in the present era. In the lessons, via comparative reading of antique, modern and contemporary works, the main ideas of construction and the ways of architectural composition will be critically presented. From the themes covered in the lessons, project-work, practice on plans, sections, and models will have the aim of familiarising the students to the most used elements in the processes of creation and planning of architectural built elements. The development of an architectural project in relationship with a theme and a defined place will be the object of an experiment that will see the student individually engaged in the application of analysis techniques of architectural form and ways of composition.
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Architectural composition 1 Credits CFU: 6 Year: I Duration: year Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Typological and morphological character of architecture Credits CFU: 3 Year: I Duration: year Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Drawing Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: annual Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours lectures 10 hours seminars Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: Theory and applied course Examination method: Graphical test, oral discussion Possible additional activities: workshop Aims, contents and didactic methodology: This course examines the rigorous construction of architectural drawing through the tools of descriptive geometry, in order to obtain the main projections used in the architectural representation, such as orthogonal, isometric and perspective projections. These tools have evolved within a historical and theoretical context of architectural drawing, and inform strategies at the basis of the conception of the architectural form. Students will learn to draw architectural subjects using traditional media, such as pencils on various kinds of paper, refining them with shade and shadowing techniques (sciagraphy). The appropriateness and meaning of the drawing construction and its articulation will be examined through a series of investigations. Seminars and workshops will be devoted to the realization of hand-drawn sketches, learning the technique also with reference to the sketching practices of ancient and modern architects, thus constituting a branch of the history of representation.
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Rapresentation techniques 1 Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: total 40 hours (12 hours lectures, 28 hours project workshop) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: module planning workshop 1 Examination method: discussion of project work done in planning workshop, with particular reference to the representation techniques. Possible additional activities: intensive seminar in the first semester of the workshop: workshop on conceptual model of a studied project Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The aim of the module is to supply parallel tools for the techniques of codified representation, the subject of the Planning module, as a transmission technique of composite themes and choices. Through an analysis of the various means of project communication (prefiguration, presentation, transfiguration of the physical situation) the architectural sense is confirmed as a representation of a system of values. Monographic lessons propose the reading of Le Corbusiers work as a symbolic representation of themes moved from poetic language to the composite-architectonic one. The other lessons look at the techniques and the role of some plastic and bi-dimensional architecture figuration tools. The intensive seminar aims at the elaboration of a conceptual model of a project studied as a parallel interpretive text on which to build the project hypothesis. The construction of analogous bi-dimensional work (interpretive boards) and three-dimensional work (conceptual model), are fore-
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seen for the project solution stage.
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Basic Scientific Workshop I

Fundamental Mathematics 1 Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: semester (first) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours lectures 10 hours practice work Number of hours per week: 4 hours lectures, 1 hour practice work Course type: theory Examination method: written, sometimes oral examination Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The contents of the course are those standard for mathematical analysis ( theory of sets, applications, functions (rational, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic), limits, derivatives, the main theorems on differentiability, study of functions). Attention is given to examples and exercises due to the exam method (almost always written). The time given to practice work has the dual aim of filling any gaps from the high school education (second level inequation) and also to explore the practice area still further.
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Fundamental Mathematics 2 Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: second semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours lectures Number of hours per week: 4 hours lectures Course type: theory Examination method: oral Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The aim of the course is to continue the themes of analysis dealt with in the first semester (indefinite, definite and generalised integrals) followed with linear algebra (vector spaces, vector properties and inequality, linear dependence, bases, linear forms (line and plane), system resolution of n equations with n unknown elements). The second part of the course is dedicated to the study of functions with two variables (quadratic forms, partial and directional derivatives, maximum and minimum research (free and bound), gradient) and to curves parametric and polar coordinate (with an in-depth look at golden ration).
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General Physics 1 Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours lectures 14 hours practice work in class Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory Examination method: written Possible additional activities: in class practical demonstrations Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Aims of the course: to supply a cultural and applicable development using physics as a paradigm of scientific activity and showing how creativity and logic both contribute to the creation and development of scientific thought. Contents: introduction to physics, elements of Newtonian mechanics, concept of energy and its transport, sound waves and acoustics Tools: The history of Physics and the great scientists The connection between Physics and Architecture The manual approach in first person for the solving of problems that introduce key concepts Class demonstrations and experiments Multimedia presentations with space for simulation and calculation
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Fundamental computer science

Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Automated design
Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: 1 semester (the 2nd semester) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours lectures 10 hours seminars Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: Theory and applied course Examination method: graphical test, oral discussion Possible additional activities: workshop Aims, contents and didactic methodology: This course introduces the student to the foundations of image processing, computer-aided design and visualization applications for architecture and urban design, using bi-dimensional and three-dimensional digital geometric representation. It provides the student with the theoretical bases of the discipline, by introducing him/her to a selection of contemporary hardware and software tools, giving an opportunity to explore the architectural space by employing the techniques of descriptive geometry applied to new advanced media. Some specific lectures will be devoted to: 1) the comparison between traditional and digital representation techniques and approaches, 2) the recent evolution in the field of new technologies for visualization, 3) the advanced technologies used by contemporary architects to design and construct buildings, 4) the use of rapid prototyping to realize physical architectural models, 5) the digital representation of materials and textures and the simulation of light to obtain realistic photographic rendering.
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History of architecture 1
Credits CFU: 6 Year: I Duration: annual Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 60 hours lectures Number of hours per week: 6 hours Course type: Theory lectures with practice work on a theme to be agreed on with the professor. Examination method: Oral examination on course contents and discussion of practical work Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course looks at the various meaning that come out of the project and the production of western architecture from antiquity to the first half of the 18th century with special attention given to determining analysis methods based on the study and critical comparison of bibliographic, archive and material sources. The themes aim to show the link between theory, the role of the professional and construction practices getting the student to develop a critical approach to the complexity of cultural references and to the stratification of the history of built objects.
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History of art
Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours lectures 10 hours practice work Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory Examination method: written, oral Possible additional activities: studio-visit Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Critical approach to the themes dealt with, learning of history research methodology based on the examination of the original document.
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Advanced modelling seminar

Credits CFU: 3 Year: I Duration: 1 week - End Spring Semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 20 hours lectures 10 hours seminar Number of hours per week: 30 hours Course type: theory and applied course Examination method: short paper, oral discussion Possible additional activities: workshop Aims, contents and didactic methodology: This workshop is devoted to the study of the main advanced technologies for the survey and representation of architecture. It is divided in two parts: the first one is dedicated to an international conference, in which some Italian and foreign theorists are called to speak about their experiences on digital representation and new visualization systems. The second part is based on some lectures about new technologies, on the presentations of some students work and on the discussion of possible development of research. Some of the themes that will be discussed are: advanced technologies for electronic surveying with 3D laser scanner; photogrammetric restitution of pictures; new modelling software and 3D visualization; image based technologies for advanced lighting; new methods for rendering surfaces and volumes; image processing software; new concepts for structuring figurative knowledge; rapid prototyping examples for constructing physical architectural models.
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English
Credits CFU: 3 Year: I Duration: pre-course first semester; course second semester. Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 20 hours lectures pre-course (if necessary, not compulsory) 20 hours lectures course Number of hours per week: 2 hours Course type: linguistic Examination method: a written exam that check basic grammar and vocabulary, an essay, discussion of the essay and oral exam. Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Pre-course: to check that the level of the students for general English is at B1 or more (see the European framework of Reference for Languages) before the start of the second semester. Course: to improve and students listening, writing, reading and speaking skills in the specific field of Architecture, focussing on terminology and emphasising the specific characteristics of differing discourse. The course is made up of 10 meetings, each one looking at a different area of architecture and analysing the terminology and discourse characteristics. Practice and exercises come in a variety of forms with an emphasis given to developing the skill of transferring information from one for (e.g. written) in to another (e.g. spoken).
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Planning Workshop
Credits CFU: 2 Year: I Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 20 hours (4 hours lectures, 16 hours in lab exercise) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: practical Examination method: The examination consists in a discussion on a final project developed by the student, with reference to the theoretical issues dealt with in the lectures. Moreover, student attendance and his/her project activity in the intensive seminars is assessed. Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The project is conceived as an instrument to transform the constructed and/or natural habitat, in light of the analysis of some classic and contemporary models and from the observation of the shapes in nature, art and architecture. The adhesion of the project plan to the starting programme will constantly be verified through the use of instruments for the control process like: the sketch, the plan, the section and the model.
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Basic Scientific Workshop II

Descriptive geometry Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: second semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 25 hours lectures, 15 hours practice work Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory Examination method: discussion of practice work oral exam Possible additional activities: / Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The architectural design, a fundamental instrument to control space, has its principles founded in the laws of descriptive geometry. The aim of the course is to define the theory rules and practical foundations of the subject, so the student can apply them correctly in the drawing up of an architectural project. The course is made up of a series of theory lessons that deal with methods of discipline codified representation methods, and the configurative origin of space and surfaces. The learning of these issues is checked through the completion of a graphic themed work.
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General physics 2 Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours lectures 14 hours practice work in class Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory Examination method: written Possible additional activities: In class practical demonstrations Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Aims of the course: to supply a cultural and applicable development using physics as a paradigm of scientific activity and showing how creativity and logic both contribute to the creation and development of scientific thought. Contents: elements of thermodynamics, the transport of heat, elements of Electromagnetism, transport of electromagnetic energy, nature of light and signs of optics Tools: The history of Physics and the great scientists The connection between Physics and Architecture The manual approach in first person for the solving of problems that introduce key concepts Class demonstrations and experiments Multimedia presentations with space for simulation and calculation
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Economics Workshop
Credits CFU: 8 Year: II Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 80 hours Number of hours per week: 8 hours Course type: theory Examination method: written and oral test Possible additional activities: seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The aim of the workshop is to bring together the theory analysis of the main elements of economic theory (macro and micro - analyses) with the use of valuation techniques to allow the correct and efficient valuation of investment projects. The course of Foundations of economics and valuation aims at showing, through a theory - applied profile, the structure and ways of use of the main valuation tools, putting them in the widest and most general context of basic economic theory, with the aim of clarifying the valuation formation and economic decision making process. The course of Economics applied to Planning, complementary to that of Foundations of economics and valuation, aims at giving the general principles for socio-economic valuation both of architecture and urban planning. The main points of the general conceptual tools for valuation of investments and of decision, both from the company and private point of view, will be presented.
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Foundations of economics and valuation Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: lectures (40 hours) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory Examination method: written test Possible additional activities: seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The aims at offering the general principles of the valuation discipline, supplying the basic cognitive tools (theory and applied) for judgement of property valuation, looking closely at the inherent themes of civil and urban, industrial and environmental valuation, as well as the building and property sector, identifying the main methods of applied valuation to these and real valuations cases with the help from the mathematics tools of financial calculus. At the same time, it is intended to remind the fundamental principles of economics theory linked to the characteristics of production and of demand of goods and services; to the structure and workings of the market; to the mechanisms of price formulation, of costs and of balance; to the behaviour of the economic agents of reference (consumers and enterprises); to the analysis of economic decisions (choices); to the determination of the economic and monetary value of goods (public and private).
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Design economics Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: lectures (40 hours) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory Examination method: oral test Possible additional activities: seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Basic knowledge on economic theory and on social-economic assessment of investment for real estate, land use and urban development, from both public and private investors point of view. Real estate development assessment and rent evaluation; financial assessment of investments; economic risk analysis in the building sector; cost-benefit analysis; regulation of the land use and real estate market.
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Architectural planning workshop II

Credits CFU: 13 Year: II Duration: 1 semester Total hours, lectures and workshops hours: 50 hours lectures 40 hours practice 100 hours planning/design workshop Number of hours per week: 12 hours Course type: theory, practical Examination method: The examination is like a design competition: the teachers evaluate each project alongside the others, follow by an individual oral exam. Possible additional activities: Intensive design workshop with a visiting professor (from abroad). Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The theme of the studio is the design of a hotel in the mountains. We are going to simulate some of the fundamental elements of the design process, starting from different clients featured by a functional model (which the students can get from the program) and by individual projects (which the students have to refer to for the design strategies to use). The clients requests, therefore, deal with local conditions, both their constraints and their opportunities.
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Architectural composition 2 Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: 1 semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 16 hours lectures 20 hours practice 30 hours planning/design workshop Number of hours per week: 5 hours Course type: practical Examination method: The examination is like a design competition: the teachers evaluate each project alongside the others, follow by an individual oral exam. Possible additional activities: Intensive design workshop with a visiting professor (from abroad). Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course aims to encourage the work of each student and at the same time, to improve the ability to collaborate through a competitive-cooperative method. After a starting discussion that can determine the most interesting topics, each member of the design team works alone and produces some initial ideas. These ideas are to be presented to the teachers, who choose those that show the best possibilities. All the students of each design team have to work separately on the chosen hypothesis until the next meeting, where further decisions are made. The aim is to proliferate, to select and to share ideas.
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Architectural design theories and techniques 1 Credits CFU: 3 Year: II Duration: 1 semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 18 hours lectures Number of hours per week: 2 hours Course type: theoretical Examination method: The examination is like a design competition: the teachers evaluate each project alongside the others, follow by an individual oral exam. Possible additional activities: Intensive design workshop with a visiting professor (from abroad). Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course examines international architectural publishing, focussing on some issues under contemporary debate. Density, context, indeterminate, play/game, diagram, fast, absence, mobile, surface, beautiful... are the keywords that emerge from recent books. They are developed into lectures on the complex theory of current architectural design.
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Representation techniques 2 Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: 1 semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 16 hours lectures 20 hours practice 30 hours planning/design workshop Number of hours per week: 5 hours Course type: theory, practical Examination method: The examination is like a design competition: the teachers evaluate each project alongside the others, follow by an individual oral exam. Possible additional activities: Intensive design workshop with a visiting professor (from abroad). Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Communicating concepts through graphics, paradoxically, seems to be more difficult nowadays. The seemingly infinite catalogue of tools provided by technological progress triggers an attitude to look at the architectural project rather than to see it. If we perceive the world presence through looking at it, and its essence through seeing it, it becomes fundamental to get a critical representation of the project, that could deal with the great potential of contemporary instruments in a more creative and proliferating way. The aim of the course is to build representation strategies that achieve greater depth than an image and, at the same time, a higher resolution.
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Seminars Credits CFU: 2 Year: II Duration: 1 week Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours planning/design workshop Number of hours per week: 40 hours Course type: Examination method: The examination is like a design competition: the teachers evaluate each project alongside the others, follow by an individual oral exam. Possible additional activities: workshop Aims, contents and didactic methodology: This intensive design workshop deals with a different design theme to that of the preceding course. Instant projects are to be produced for some areas in Bologna for which the University of Trieste has been commissioned to execute some planning research.
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Construction technique 1
Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: second semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Statics
Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours, 30 lectures 10 practice Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory Examination method: written, divided into two exams for the students who attend, one single exam for those who sit the exam at the end of the course. Possible additional activities: there are no other complimentary activities to the theory foreseen. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The aim of the course is to give to the student the basic knowledge of the principles of statics, starting from the knowledge acquired in the physics and mathematics courses. A major aim is the mastery of the principles and application of balancing forces in general and for the most usual statics plans. After an introduction to forces and the operations connected to them, isostatic systems, planes, beams and frames, also with internal disjointedness, with an added capital on the reticular systems will be studied. Other parts of the course deal with mass geometry with calculus and practical use of static moments and inertia of generic and the more recurring sections. The didactic methodology is theory lessons and practice run by the teacher and the need for the students to take notes for text books.
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Architectural constructiom workshop I

Credits CFU: 11 Year: II Duration: 1 semester (2nd semester) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 110 hours (80 lectures, 30 workshop) Number of hours per week: 10 hours Course type: theoretical, practical Examination method: discussion of work, oral test, written test Possible additional activities: study visit, seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The Workshop course represents a first approach to the problems related to the feasibility of buildings and to construction in general. It brings together three courses: Technical Architecture, Building Recording and Science and Technology of Building Materials. Each course has its own programme; one assignment combining all three courses is expected from all students, in addition to assignments/exercises for each individual course. The assignment combining all three courses deals with the recording and the description of the appearance of a building (or part of a building). It is done in small groups. When all of the three courses are chosen by the student, a joint examination will take place, based on the discussion of the assignment and an oral test. For programmes of each subject, please refer to the description of contents for each single course.
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Architectural technique Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: 1 semester (2nd semester) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours (26 lectures, 14 workshop) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory, practical Examination method: discussion of the project, oral test Possible additional activities: study visit, seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course is considered within the framework of a technological approach to the architectural project of architecture and develops themes related to the idea-feasibility relationship of a built object. The aim of the course is to develop the skills to make appropriate and feasible building choices. Through the critical analysis of modern and contemporary architectural production, and subsequently design workshops the student is led to the following knowledge processes: 1) acknowledgement and interpretation of the design idea for perceptive, formal and functional requirements; 2) determining of principles and procedures to translate the conceived idea into a built form; 3) definition of the functional behaviours which each component is to have so as to meet user requirements; 4) study of formal, building and service design of the single components and of their complex relationships according to the chosen material and technique; 5) control of coherence in the form and the function of the object according to the original planning stage. As for the methodological approach, the course develops lectures
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Architectural surveying Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: 2nd semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: 2 hours of lectures and 1 hour of practice Course type: Examination method: individual exam during the course and group final practice. Possible additional activities: seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The geometric-dimensional surveying of any built object presupposes the production of a report (as objectively as possible), of useful data for identification and representation of its condition. The representational tools used, graphics, photographic, literarydescriptive, lend themselves to a projective vocation that inevitably selects data according to the objectives (prefixed). The efficacy of the survey (and its representation) will be much greater, the clearer the project strategy it refers to is. The course follows two directions that alternate during the semester. One illustrates, with theory and propeadeutic lectures, the basic tools and methods for architectural surveying; the other carries out a series of practice, both individual and group, aimed at checking and continuously practising the taught notions.
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Science and technology of materials Credits CFU: 3 Year: II Duration: 2nd semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours lectures Number of hours per week: 3 hours Course type: theory Examination method: mid-term during the year. The exam is together with the assignment of credits of the Architectural Construction Workshop. Possible additional activities: None Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course of Science and Technology of Materials aims to get architecture students to know how the technological properties of materials are linked to structure and types of linkage. On the basis of this theory it is possible to choose the suitable material if the requirements that it must be satisfied are known, not only for the materials studied on the course, but also of any new types.
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Urban planning workshop I

Credits CFU: 10 Year: II Duration: 2nd semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 100 hours (60 hours lectures, 20 hours in lab exercise, 20 hours workshop) Number of hours per week: 9 hours Course type: theoretical, practical Examination method: discussion of the project, oral test Possible additional activities: seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The Workshop course offers a first approach to town planning and urban design, through the knowledge of descriptive and planning techniques and tools. It brings together three courses: Urban Planning I, Urban Planning Principles, Urban Planning Theories I. Each course has its own theoretical programme and a common practical assignment is expected from students. The common assignment is carried out in small groups (2 students) and deals with the definition of design proposals for the enhancement and development of a residential district in a village near Trieste, giving particular attention to public open spaces and to the relationship with the landscape. The assignment is divided in fours stages: reading and interpreting the site; defining problems and resources, drawing design concepts; carrying out a survey of the materials of built and open spaces; drawing urban design proposals for the renewal and redefinition of the spatial layout. During the semester students are requested to produce three albums and boards collecting their exercises (description and interpretation of the site, project). At the end a joint examination will take place, based on the discussion of the work (final album,
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Urban planning 1 Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: 2nd semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours (24 hours lectures,8 hours in lab exercise 8 hours workshop) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory, practical Examination method: discussion of the project, oral test Possible additional activities: seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The Course proposes a reflection on different approaches to the interpretation and the planning of contemporary cities and territories. It is based on the assumption that Urban Planning can be interpreted as a practical knowledge, bringing together contributions from many disciplines, whereas the ways of observing, describing, interpreting the context have in time played the role of starting point for the construction both of urban theories and models, and of planning techniques and tools. The Course thus develops a critical analysis of modern and contemporary urban theories proposing different ways of looking at urban spaces: from the point of view of morphological layout, of social practices, of perceptual features, of historical processes. The aim is to provide the students with a first repertoire of analytical and interpretative concepts and tools, useful for the development of design proposals. As for the methodological approach, lectures provide a re-reading of a selection of national and international theories, books and projects, from those which first introduced a specific approach to those which have more recently re-interpreted it, in order to start
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Fondamental Urban planning Credits CFU: 3 Year: II Duration: 1 semester (2nd semester) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours (16 hours lectures, 7 hours in lab exercise, 7 hours workshop) Number of hours per week: 2 hours Course type: theory, practical Examination method: discussion of the project, oral test Possible additional activities: seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The Course proposes a reflection on different tools and techniques for the definition of urban planning proposals. Since Urban Planning is interpreted as a discipline which deals with complexity and transformation, the course interprets the word principles as the elementary presuppositions that are essential when facing the numerous issues of contemporary Urban Planning. The objects of the Course are contemporary cities and territories. There are many dimensions to these units. First the physical and visible are analysed in order to develop a knowledge of concepts and tools necessary to interpret the signs and the materials that have, over time, built the territory, the landscape, the urban space. As for the methodological approach, lectures arrange the critical analysis of descriptive and design tools according to different scales and points of views, with the aim of showing the students their different effectiveness in understanding and governing urban and territorial transformations.
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Urban planning theory 1 Credits CFU: 3 Year: II Duration: 1 semester (2nd semester) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours (20 hours lectures, 5 hours in lab exercise, 5 hours workshop) Number of hours per week: 3 hours Course type: theory, practical Examination method: discussion of the project, oral test Possible additional activities: seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The Course offers a first approach to Urban Planning, interpreted as a field of study which started in recent Modernity. The aim is to critically analyse those urban planning proposals and urban theories that have both significantly articulated and specified the ideas of Modernity applied to this discipline, and supported the construction of contemporary territories. Lectures are specifically dedicated to the re-reading of plans and projects, theories and techniques that (following one another and being inter-linked) first built the principles of the discipline, then implemented its theoretical and practical knowledge, and finally partially contributed to the construction of modern and contemporary urban spaces. The itinerary (cities, plans and projects) aims to point out: the main issues and dichotomies that have supported the definition of planning ideas such as public/private, individual/collective, form/ function, built/open space, town/country, density/sprawl, etc.; spatial forms deriving from the articulation of different design principles and urban materials, which have given form to ideas and theories, projects and, finally, to real spaces.
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History of Architecture 2
Credits CFU: 6 Year: II Duration: second semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours lectures 10 hours seminars 10 hours workshop Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory Examination method: oral test and discussion of written homework Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course gives basic knowledge on the history of architecture of the period 18001900 through the analysis of the architectural heritage, the authors profiles, and knowledge of the historic and cultural context of the territory where the building is constructed.
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Architectural planning workshop III

Credits CFU: 12 Year: III Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 120 hours (20 hours lectures, 100 hours workshop) Number of hours per week: 6 hours Course type: design and theory Examination method: To be eligible for the exam the candidate should hand in the following works: - three A1 format foam-backed panels presenting the project contents, elevation plans, sections, details in a suitable scale; - model or models in suitable scale; - descriptive report of the project, 2500 character word limit; - CD-Rom containing all the work, both that for the exam and previous work. They should be organised in two folders; the first should contain the work for the exam: photos of the foam-backed panels and of the models (jpg format, dim. min. 16x12, 300 dpi), and project report (word format); the second should contain the board photos and documents done during previous practice (jpg format, dim. min. 16x12, 300 dpi). The exam discussion will be on the issues dealt with during the course. Possible additional activities: Project seminars; - lessons by experts from other disciplines on project issues; - Conferences, also outside the Faculty, to which the students are invited to participate; - Study trip abroad, also open to students from other years. - In June there will be a one week intensive seminar aimed at per-
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fecting and finishing works. No practice is foreseen during the course as the workshop experience is considered enough for the student. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course aims to investigate the processes of change of the city and the territory via the architectural project, supplying the students with the possibility to improve, through doing, a cognitive experience that will help them understand the development phenomena of the city. Thus the project is brought to the centre of the discussion as a synthesis tool of the logical processes that regulate the composition of fixed a urban environment. Hence the course will be structured as a real workshop within which the students, aided by the teaching staff, start project activity from the beginning. The lessons, both general and highly discipline-focused, deal with the issues linked to project-work and will not only be held by the teaching staff, but also by experts from other disciplines, invited because of their experience in the issues being dealt with. In support of the project work there could also be specific didactic activity, aimed at helping the primed the student and that could, sometimes, be of interest to other groups of students.
Architectural composition 3 Credits CFU: 4 Year: III Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: project and theory Examination method: To be eligible for the exam the candidate should hand in foam-backed panels representing the project contents, elevation plans, sections, details in a suitable scale;- model or models is suitable scale; descriptive report of the project; CD-Rom containing all work. Possible additional activities: Project seminars; lessons and conferences by experts from other disciplines on project issues; and also a study-trip abroad, also open to students from other years. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: the course will be structured as a real workshop within which the students, aided by the teaching staff, start project activity from the beginning. The lessons, both general and highly discipline-focused, deal with the issues linked to project-work and will not only be held the teaching staff, but also by experts from other disciplines, invited because of their experience in the issues being dealt with. In support of the project work there could also be specific didactic activity, aimed at helping the primed the student and that could, sometimes, be of interest to other groups of students.
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Distribution characteristics of buildings Credits CFU: 3 Year: III Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours: (20 hours lectures, 5 hours of guided visits and seminar activity, 5 hours of practice) Number of hours per week: 3 - 4 hours Course type: project and theory Examination method: the exam takes place within the workshop to which the course belongs and deals with the issues covered in the lectures and the practice. Possible additional activities: The course is a good support to Architectural Design Workshop III, so the students are monitored (weekly) during the drawing up of the project work with meetings on and checks of the work done. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Provide the students with the elements necessary for the comprehension of the syntactic logical processes that make up an architectural system.
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Interior design Credits CFU: 3 Year: III Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: project and theory Examination method: The exam for the interior design module is an integrated part of the work the students must produce for the Design Workshop III. What is requested is an in-depth study of that project. The student, (using the suitable scale, graphic design and models) must be able to show and explain, in detail, the solutions adopted for the interior spaces and architectural details of the project hypothesis. The assessment of the project will be made by a commission, considering the theoretical, disciplinary, technological and construction theory that brought the student to the choices made. Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course, beyond wanting to clarify the -now common- ambiguity that interior design essentially coincides with furnishing, shows via a close analysis of projects, productions and didactic material - that the contrary is so, working in this context of relations defined by the relationship between the elements of furniture, architectonic space and decorative display, it is intended as a stable configuration of the space. As it must use the same principles that govern architectural composition it cannot be considered an autonomous discipline to architecture, it is considered one stage of in-depth study of the whole project process. As it is part of Architectural Design Workshop III, the didactic aims will be to develop the project of the Workshop.
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The aim is to confirm the theory the course is based on, via individual student graphic work, considering the project as an exam of general and specific knowledge acquired during the semester. The course foresees a series of lectures that are integrated with those of the other experts invited, giving particular attention to the specific disciplinary function of the project. The professor of the course together with other teaching staff will follow the students from the first stages of the project. Helping student choices, of a general character, that could lead the student to the development of a project that keeps account of the development of an idea in stages that reflect the processes needed to create a constructed object.
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Seminars Credits CFU: 2 Year: III Duration: one week Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 ore Number of hours per week: 40 hours Course type: project Examination method: The final exam will be a discussion, via the final project work, of the subject developed by the student. Possible additional activities: workshop Aims, contents and didactic methodology: In June there will be a one week intensive seminar aimed at perfecting and finishing works.
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Architectural construction workshop II

Credits CFU: 11 Year: III Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 100 hours, 70 lectures 30 practice Number of hours per week: 12 hours Course type: theory - applied Examination method: a construction project of a building in groups of 2-3-4 students, with a group discussion of the project. Oral exam divided into three parts, one on each discipline of the workshop. Possible additional activities: technical visits to building sites Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The aim is to give the students a first experience of integrated planning that, from s traditional composition architectural project already developed in other courses or experiences, and from previous knowledge, comes to defining at the executive level, at least for some parts of the building, the constructed aspects of finishings, of the structure and of the installations, also re-drawing up the metric calculation, the economic framework and the work programme. The didactic methodology of each course (mainly construction in reinforced concrete for the course of Construction techniques II, traditional installations for buildings for Technical Physics and functions of planners and directors of works, procedures for public and private works, drawing up of metric calculation for the course of Building programming and costing) is lectures and practice run by the teacher and the need for the students to take notes for text books.
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Construction techniques 2 Credits CFU: 4 Year: III Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours (30 lectures, 10 practice) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory - applied Examination method: oral exam on lecture contents Possible additional activities: technical visits to building sites, beyond numerous revisions of the project during the academic year. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The aim of the course is to give the students the basics of the applied principles of reinforced concrete, with notes on and comparisons with other structural materials, masonry, wood and steel. A major aim is the mastery of the principles and application of construction typologies and elements for the most usual statics plans, but with special reference to simple multi-storey buildings. After an introduction to the materials making up reinforced concrete, the student goes on to analyse the basics of technical reinforced concrete theory and on to develop the calculation of the base elements: pillars, sets, beams, floors, stairs, terraces and some foundation elements. The aim is to put together the structural elements with the other construction elements of a building and to justify the forms they can take in some, also architectural, cases. The didactic methodology is theory lessons and practice run by the teacher and the need for the students to take notes for text books.
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Physics techniques Credits CFU: 4 Year: III Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours (25 lectures, 5 workshop) Number of hours per week: 3 hours Course type: theory Examination method: discussion of project and oral exam Possible additional activities: there are no other complimentary activities to the theory foreseen. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The aim is to give the student a complete view of the building system intended both as building covering that must use as little energy as possible, thus placing special attention on walling, window element characteristics and thermal bridging problems, as well as on the existing installation typologies in a building and their interaction with the structure.
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Building scheduling techniques Credits CFU: 3 Year: III Duration: 1st semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours total 5 hours practice 5 hours seminar Number of hours per week: 3 hours Course type: theoretical, and a project for the exam Examination method: oral discussion of the project work and the course topics Possible additional activities: field trip on site Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Reviewing the building process as the following up of the development of complex activities, aimed at producing a complete package to customers, from the feasibility studies to the habitability document. Tools and methods for managing the building process. Check list of the design process preliminary, final and executive design phases - work costs and analysis, parametric costs, total cost and summary financial tables, computations and appraisal. Contracting work, testing and certification.
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Urban planning workshop II

Credits CFU: 7 Year: III Duration: I semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 70 hours total (35 h lectures, 35 h workshop) Number of hours per week: 8 hours Course type: theory and practical Examination method: oral discussion of the practical work and of lectures subjects and read texts Possible additional activities: workshops, seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Urban Planning Workshop II combines two courses, Urban Planning and Urban Planning Techniques which develop fundamental theories, techniques, materials, examples and references for urban design and for its development. The students are asked to elaborate a project which (through a continuous process rather than by deduction of description-interpretation- prefiguration) leads them to make relationships among readings and hypotheses of re-configuration of the contemporary town and of its large parts. Students are asked to describe the places given as case studies to interpreter problems and potentials useful to prefigure images, strategies and urban transformation scenarios. The project approaches the topic of urban regeneration in its different aspects (physical, social, environmental) and pays attention to themes like: the use and forms of open spaces; the relationships of the urban parts with the city; the redefinition of marginal areas; the determining of new morphological and functional centralities; the re-naturalization of empty areas and the relationship with the landscape; the study of new residential models.
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Urban planning 2 Credits CFU: 4 Year: III Duration: I semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours total (20 hours lectures, 20 hours workshop) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory and practical work Examination method: oral discussion of the practical work and of lectures and read texts Possible additional activities: workshops, seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The structure of the course is based on the idea that the urban project should combine and stratify the different interpretations of the modern town scheme; interpretations which should consider the different layers of physical space, social space, and the space of ideas. The course of Urban Planning deals with the articulated relationships which link the contents of the discipline to the creation of contemporary territories and their re-design. A new interpretation of the idea of living spaces is suggested as well as the 20th century vision of cities, with the aim of improving urban space and to develop it as references for European design practice.
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Urban planning techniques Credits CFU: 3 Year: III Duration: I semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours total (15 h lectures, 15 h workshop) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory and practical work Examination method: oral discussion of the practical work and of lectures and read texts Possible additional activities: workshops, seminars Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course of Techniques for Urban Planning faces some specific issues linked to the creation of urbanism, with the aim of acknowledging planning and design tools and for the organization of the physical space. Urban planning techniques are intended as tools which help not only methodologies or specific approaches to the forms design, but also as tools to control dimensions, materials, spaces and relationships among empty-full spaces.
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Restoration workshop
Credits CFU: 12 Year: III Duration: semester (2nd) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 120 hours Number of hours per week: 4 hours of lessons 4hours of practice Course type: theory and project Examination method: discussion of restoration project in groups with individual parts Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Architectural restoration is an inter- and multi-discipline subject, where differing knowledge and skills meet, and make many types of professional figure. The restoration-architect will guide and coordinate the whole operation (from construction and management) of the restoration project, which aims at (exclusive, prevalent, secondary) the conservation, in light of their future use, of the constructed accounts that come to us from the past also recent. The common aim of the closely integrated courses belonging to Restoration Workshop is to test some of the elements that run between the differing disciplines and professions involved, starting with analyses of history of restoration theory which, in the modern sense, started in the 19th century.
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Architectural restoration Credits CFU: 6 Year: III Duration: semester (2nd) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 60 hours Number of hours per week: 2 hours lectures and 2 hours practice Course type: Examination method: discussion of project or individual work Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The aim is to teach a methodology for the drawing up of a restoration project: the analysis of the existing structure in all its formal and material aspects; the comprehension and representation of degeneration and impairment phenomena; the conservation of materials; the definition of new functions compatible with the existing structure (the re-use); the design of the elements (added) capable of guaranteeing said function. The continued dialectics, which should be established between the various project stages, is the leading theme of the course, being at the same time: moments to reflect on theory, on cultural choice, on determining activities most suitable to conservation and to utilisation of the existing structure. The course consists of monographic lessons that deal with the various indicated themes, of specialist seminars and of project practice.
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Restoration Theory and History Credits CFU: 3 Year: III Duration: semester (2nd) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours Number of hours per week: 1 hour lecture and 1hour practice Course type: Examination method: individual oral exam Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course aims at providing the knowledge to understand the many theoretic approaches that have characterised and characterise the field of restoration. The aim is to go over the main stages of the different theories and histories of restoration, starting from proposals at the birth of the modern discipline, thus from the first 19th century, up to the present. The critical re-analysis is aimed at understanding the complexity of definitions, protagonists, projects and to re-read them critically in light of the current debate, of the orientation recognisable today, and the legislative evolution. It also aims to install a propaedeutical knowledge for the drawing up of a restoration project, that will bring the student to both understand the theoretic fundamentals, and to understand the working implications.
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Consolidation of historic buildings Credits CFU: 3 Year: III Duration: semester (2nd) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours Number of hours per week: 1hour lecture and 1hour practice Course type: Examination method: discussion of project or individual work Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: This discipline of structural consolidation is a theme of particular relevance in the field of conservation work of historic, ancient and modern buildings. The aim of the course is to provide the students with the notions and ideas needed to understand the structural (and then constructive) conception in every building, to qualitatively define the main phenomena of impairment and to prefigure the strengthening and/or adjusting work necessary. The course will be structured around two parts: theory and application. The second stage of the course foresees the application of acquired concepts in the context of practice didactics offered by the workshop. Thus field-trip and seminar activity is foreseen.
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Theory and history of industrial design

Credits CFU: 4 Year: III Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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> Description of teaching of specialisation degree in Architecture ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Architectural planning workshop IV

Credits CFU: 18 Year: I Duration: second semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Architectural planning Credits CFU: 8 Year: I Duration: second semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Theory and techniques of architectural design2 Credits CFU: 6 Year: I Duration: second semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Landscape architecture Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: second semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Architectural construction workshop III

Credits CFU: 16 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type : Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Large structure architecture Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: 1 semester (1st semester) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours total (20 hours lectures , 20 hours workshop) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory, practical Examination method: discussion of the produced work Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course goes together with the Workshop of Construction of Architecture III. It deals with building problems related to the construction of large structures and in particular with the design of large roofing. Materials and building techniques for designing innovative roofing solutions for sports buildings is developed. This is done in relation to the design of steel bearing components, and problems related to fire protection, thermal and acoustic insulation as well as durability and maintenance of components. This is dealt with in the lectures and the student are led to make appropriate choices for the design of a sport building, which is developed, with other pertinent subjects, in the coordinated workshop.
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Steel construction theory and project Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours lectures and 10 hours project workshop Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory and practical Examination method: discussion of project and oral exam Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course aims at giving the students the essential and general concept linked to the theory and to the panning of steel constructions. After outlining the characteristics of steel and of steel products currently used in the construction sector, the calculus methods foreseen by the norms for structural checks are illustrated. Then the structural types concerning average-length covers and multi-storey buildings are presented. The fundamental criteria for the dimensioning of simple and compound elements and for the planning and checking of linkages (bolts, wielding) are then given.
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Structural problems with historic buildings Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Structure project Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Urban planning workshop III

Credits CFU: 12 Year: I Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 140 hours (92 hours lectures, 24 hours practice, 24 hours seminars or guided visits) Number of hours per week: 8 hours Course type: the course is sub-divided into theory, guided project work and integrated activities. Examination method: the exam is based on an interview relating to the project practice work and the themes of the lessons. The student must also show knowledge of some texts, indicated by the professor, at least one of which must be accompanied with a descriptive table. Possible additional activities: visits to the project site with the support of local experts; seminars on case-studies and methods; a study-trip of relevance to the issues of the project; an intensive seminar at the end of the course where the students can question the teaching staff and external experts will be organised. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The workshop deals with themes and strategies of the project for the redevelopment of urban areas in the process of transformation. The areas of the city represent an important laboratory for the experimentation of new spatial and social balances, new relationships between local authorities and to start new methodologies to approach the theme of dwelling, constructing new services and urban equipment, etc. The lessons will explore each central theme: sustainable urban design, the design of collective space and residential settlements, the planning and redevelopment of housing spaces in relation to production spaces and the
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exchange, to periurban rural space, to areas with great environmental and landscape value. The project practical work has an experimental character, favouring empirical and incremental knowledge, a dialectic approach and reciprocal comparison. The aim it to provide the students with a rich and articulated apparatus of ideas, techniques and interpretation skills that contribute to the development of a critical knowledge and an approach which is aware of the creation of new visions of redevelopment and growth for the city.
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Urban planning 3 Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 60 hours (40 hours lecture, 10 hours practice, 10 hours seminars or guided visits) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: the course is sub-divided into theory, guided project work and integrated activities. Examination method: the exam is based on an interview relating to the project practical work and the themes of the lessons. Possible additional activities: visits to the project site with the support of local experts; seminars on case-studies and methods; a study-trip relevant to the issues of the project; an intensive seminar at the end of the course, where the students can question the teaching staff and external experts, will be organised. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The aim of the course is the formulation of project proposals for the transformation of peripheral or marginal urban areas or areas within the urban fabric. In the first stage the students, in groups of two or three, will survey the project site using various instruments with the idea of creating a master plan which will define the necessary strategic actions to define urban regeneration programmes. To develop a project of the area based on two general issues: 1. The design of collective spaces as a possibility to construct an identifying space within the community and to presage possibilities of exchange between districts and city, within a logic of polycentric construction of the urban space;
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2. Accommodation, accessible services, liaison sites and consumption spaces: which development model for the city of tomorrow? Projects of new buildings and redevelopment of suburban areas and crisis areas.
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Analysis of the city and of the territory Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours (26 hours lecture, 7 hours practice, 7 hours seminars or guided visits) Number of hours per week: 2 hours. The urban planning workshop III also organises, at the end of the semester, an intensive final seminar, with a total duration of 40 hours. Course type: the course is made up of lessons of theory and onsite analysis activity in support of the project. Examination method: the exam is organised together with the other units of the workshop via the exhibition of the project developed during the semester. The student must also show knowledge of some texts, indicated by the professor, at least one of which must be accompanied with a descriptive table. Possible additional activities: visits to the project site with the support of local experts; seminars on case-studies and methods; a study-trip relevant to the issues of the project. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course is closely coordinated with Urban Planning 3, in the belief that the analysis and planning stages cannot be separated. The aim of the course is to observe and interpret some urban crisis areas, in need of radical transformation, identifying the potential of the individual and collective spaces that characterise it, the changes in progress within and assessing their everyday needs, as well as the possibility of spatial, economic and social redevelopment. Particular attention will be given to the relationship between public residential building districts and the surroundings areas: the infrastructure network and services, natural elements, social meeting
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places, the networks of centralisation and urban services. The physical and social fabric of the parts of the city under observation will be studied with various survey techniques aimed at the construction of transformation scenarios, based on the project, aimed at interpreting the growing demand from the inhabitants for urban quality, sustainable development and safety.
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Environmental economics and valuation Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: lectures (40 hours) Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: theory Examination method: project analysis Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course is on the economic aspects of environmental problems, with reference to different schools of thought. The aim is to teach both the tools for economic valuation of goods and of environmental impact, and also the tools used in the differing policies linked to the environmental question. The course aims at answering each of these questions through the prefiguration projects of area and scope, giving particular attention to the procedure of their execution and proposing a method of construction/valuation of the decisions at the base of the project based on the principles of sustainability, in the widest possible meaning of the term, involving the ecological nature, economics, social and environmental parameters, with special reference to planning and use of the territory, which environmental components and impact valuation of the various activities to be applied to it.
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Economics of the city and territory workshop

Credits CFU: 12 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 90 hours lectures Number of hours per week: 12 hours Course type: theory Examination method: oral discussion Possible additional activities: seminars, lectures Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Starting from the accessibility concept, the course presents the economic framework of the contemporary urban environments, interpreted as a territorial system of accessible resources and opportunities. Basic knowledge of: accessibility indicators, transport economics and planning, technical and economic performances of transport systems, relationships between transport networks, urban economics and urban development.
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Urban and metropolitan transport Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Urban economics Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours lectures Number of hours per week: Course type: theory Examination method: oral discussion Possible additional activities: seminars, lectures Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Urban Economics history. Model and issues in Urban economics. Recent evolution and limits of neoclassic approach in Urban economics. Some focal issues of contemporary urban economics: the rent and its causes; post-fordist theories for local economic development (industrial and new technology clusters); the milieu innovateur theories and innovation capability as a tool for regional development.
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Transport economics Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: first semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours lectures Number of hours per week: Course type: theory Examination method: oral discussion Possible additional activities: seminars, lectures Aims, contents and didactic methodology: Accessibility indicators. Public and private transportation systems. Analysis of technical, cost structure, and economic performances of transport system. Car parking, planning and management; Walking mobility; territorial impact of transport network; public transport policies: principles and tools. The legal framework for transport planning and regulation.
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History of the city and territory

Credits CFU: 4 Year: I Duration: annual Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 40 hours lectures Number of hours per week: 4 hours Course type: Theory lectures with practice work on a theme to be agreed on with the professor. Examination method: Oral examination on course contents and discussion of practical work Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course aims at giving the student the skills of analysis and interpretation of the complexity of the historic stratification of the contemporary city and the territory through the study of processes (political-strategic, economic and cultural) that have orientated or determined their spatial organisation. The chronological sphere surveyed looks at the study of themes and analysis of important examples from antiquity to the assertion of principles of the French Revolution and is the basis of the approach methodology for critical interpretation of the documented sources (bibliographic, archive, iconographic, material).
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Architectural planning workshop V

Credits CFU: 24 Year: II Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 230 hours (50 hours lectures, 180 hours workshop) Number of hours per week: two days a week, a total of 12 hours a week Course type: project Examination method: presentation of project work Possible additional activities: study-trip, workshop Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The theme of the course is the house of man [la casa delluomo] in the present-day city. The aim of the course is the study of residential buildings in the transformation of the contemporary city, leading the project again over the phenomena linked to the construction of the city, with special reference to collective buildings; the planning of a public building and its surroundings are thus considered as a chance to reconsider in critical terms the relationship between the typological and works undertaking. The course has two stages: The first is mostly dedicated to a series of theory lessons on the themes of the course and finishes with an examination of project ideas and architectural themes identified by the students. The second stage, in the form of a workshop, brings to a conclusion the critical-thematic development of the project idea with dimensional, construction and language checks. The examination is an overall assessment of the project experience in the workshop. To obtain the total number of credits the student must participate in all stages of the workshop and produce foreseen practice work.
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Architectural composition and planning 5 Credits CFU: 8 Year: II Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: project Examination method: presentation of project work Possible additional activities: study-trip, workshop Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course, via the theme of the house of man [la casa delluomo] in the present-day city, considers re-use, redevelopment and functional re-conversion of an area in Trieste, giving the opportunity to check typological experimentation on the theme of collective residential buildings and their functional contamination.
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Architecture of large structure and large infrastructure systems Credits CFU: 6 Year: II Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: project Examination method: presentation of project work Possible additional activities: study-trip, workshop Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course deals with the urban project theme via the planning of collective residential buildings. The architectural project is enriched with the urban project, and the relationship that is established with the city becomes the subject of the project. The small and large scale examinations (architecture-city-landscape) are accompanied by building construction checks, construction mechanics of the built object with particular attention given to physical qualities of the materials and to research of an architectural nature.
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Territorial planning (first module) Credits CFU: 3 Year: II Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: project Examination method: presentation of project work Possible additional activities: study-trip, workshop Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The first module of the course deals mainly with the critical revision of typological instruments, and is made up by a series of theory lessons on collective residential buildings, as well as analyses and interpretations of some important architecture, aimed at typological experimentation.
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Territorial planning (second module) Credits CFU: 3 Year: II Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: project Examination method: presentation of project work Possible additional activities: study-trip, workshop Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The second module of this course will closely study the notions of standard and carry out a critical revision of the heritage of Modernism through the re-interpretation of some symbolic works of the collective residential buildings theme. Through contact with up-to-date studies on the concept, the mono-functional approach which has dominated experimentation on the collective residential buildings theme will be discussed.
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Representation techniques 3 Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: project Examination method: presentation of project work Possible additional activities: study-trip, workshop Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course deals with the issues linked to representing the architectural project and, together with the territorial planning course, the reading and interpretation of projects of particular interest from the typological point of view. Other than the lessons, seminar activity in the final stages of the workshop are foreseen.
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Aesthetics
Credits CFU: 4 Year: II Duration: 1 semester (2nd semester) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours lectures a workshop on Invisible tows by Italo Calvino during Prof. Pier Aldo Rovattis course Number of hours per week: 3 hours Course type: theory Examination method: discussion Possible additional activities: to be fixed Aims, contents and didactic methodology: the course equips the students with the theoretical tools for a good understanding of a cultural phenomenon, the so called post-modern, which in the field of architecture gave rise to interesting and innovative use. Through the reading of some philosophic texts dealing with concept of post-modernity (principally Lyotard and Derrida) it is possible to reconstruct the context within which the debate developed. Also, one of the most recent comparisons between philosophy and architecture, which was fruitful for both the disciplines, can be critically traced. The course will be completed by the reading of the book The invisible town by Italo Calvino, proposed by Prof. Pier Aldo Rovatti.
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> Description of optional courses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Walling and wooden construction

Credits CFU: 3 Year: / Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: Course type: theory Examination method: Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology:
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Characters of contemporary cinema

Credits CFU: 3 Year: / Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours lectures e seminars Number of hours per week: 4 - 5 hours in a single day Course type: history - critical Examination method: oral exam Possible additional activities: screening of a film Aims, contents and didactic methodology: through seminars, lessons and screenings the aim is to: -centre on the relationship between cinema and architecture: synergy, analogy, functions; -analyse the skills and the moments, both artistic and economic, that come together to make a film: production screenplay direction set designing photography editing reciting distribution practice; - from Signor Max to Ovosodo, an overview of Italian cinema from the white telephones [telefoni bianchi or cinema deco or commedia allungherese European cinema style from 1936 to 1943] to present day; - the masterpieces of the American classical period from the 1930s and 50s: Modern times, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Gone with the wind, Sunset Boulevard and Psycho; - stories of great architects: Fountainhead, My Architect, Frank Gehry; - cities in cinema - The Los Angeles of Robert Altman(America today), of Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby), and of Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) - The New York of Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, Goodfellas), of
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Woody Allen (Manhattan, Radio Days), Spike Lee (The 25th Hour), John Badham (Saturday Night Fever); - The Trieste of the early 1900s in Un anno di scuola by Franco Giraldi - London of 2000 seen by Woody Allen: Match Point, Scoop.
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Advanced automated design

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Design and management of environmental resources of the landscape

Credits CFU: 3 Year: / Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: lectures (15 hours), seminars (15 hours) Number of hours per week: 3 hours Course type: theory Examination method: oral Possible additional activities: workshop, study-trip Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course aims at supplying the theory and practice to the issues, dimensions and scope of activity pertaining to contemporary planning and management experience on the environmental and countryside resources at a national and international scale. The starting point is the most recent interpretations of the notion of landscape, intended as the product of a complex synergy between natural dynamics and anthropic action, between environment and society, in sustainability survey approach. The course will consist of lectures and seminars with sector scholars and experts.
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History of architectural treatises

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Contemporary project theory

Credits CFU: 3 Year: / Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours (20 lectures, 10 seminars) Number of hours per week: 2 hours Course type: theory Examination method: oral discussion and short practical work (a drawing book) Possible additional activities: the students have always organised, themselves, a trip, out of the timetable and not compulsory. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course aims at increasing the knowledge of architectural theory developed in the post second world war period. The main trends, the debates and project approaches and analysed and a series of important projects are discussed, which forms the basis for individual expansion of themes and interests. Besides the lectures some seminars are organised on the critical reading of texts and of redesign and project comprehension that become the basis for the compilation of a note book which will be requested at the exam.
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Industrial (naval) design

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OO.LL.PP. legislation
Credits CFU: 3 Year: / Duration: semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours lessons Number of hours per week: 2,5 hours Course type: legal Examination method: oral, with mid-term exams during the course. Possible additional activities: ad hoc lessons, regarding procedures to be followed in the building-site documentation (safety schedule) Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The course aims to provide the students with the legal tools necessary in the job market they will work in. The programme starts with a close examination of the new contract code, both in light of European Community directives and national legislation presently in force. Legal knowledge is now necessary in all fields of work, and above all in planning and construction of public and also private works.
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Stage - designing
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The History and Techniques of Photography

Credits CFU: 3 Year: / Duration: 1 semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: Number of hours per week: 2 hours Course type: The course looks at both theory and practical aspects. The construction of a visual project is required. Examination method: The final critique is based on the discussion of the work done during the course. Possible additional activities: Emphasis is given to field work and exploration of the landscape. Classes will focus on contemporary aspects of photography and critiques of the work. Workshops with photographers and scholars of other disciplines make up part of the programme. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The proposal of the course is an introduction to the history and to the techniques of photography as a way of representing the city and the landscape. Particular attention will be given to the analysis and the reading of different visual texts of different authors, (Anthony Hernadez, Thomas Ruff, Beat Streuli, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Wall, Gabriele Basilico, Guido Guidi). Following different branches of research on the territory, the visual project is a profound exploration on the landscape between Trieste and Slovenia. The final form of the visual exercise is a collection of the work in a book and possibly an exhibition where words and images contribute to the construction of the puzzle of the landscape as an object of survey.
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Graphic Design and Visual Communication

Credits CFU: 3 Year: / Duration: 1 semester (2nd semester) Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours Number of hours per week: 2,5 hours Course type: theoretical with practical exercise Examination method: Discussion of project and oral exam Possible additional activities: Discussion of work done during practical exercise and oral examination on course themes. Aims, contents and didactic methodology: This introductory course aims at enabling architecture students to appreciate various aspects of visual design, providing basic skills with particular attention to the relationship between design and architecture. Main topics include type design and the use of the grid as design principle.
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Ergonomics Applied to Industrial Design

Credits CFU: 3 Year: / Duration: one semester Total hours, lecture hours and workshop hours: 30 hours Number of hours per week: 3 hours Course type: Examination method: The verification of the acquired competences for CFUs (University Formative Credits) attribution and marks will be carry out by means of a practical test and an oral examination. A. The practical project During the course, some practices will be proposed as group work activities and at the end of the lessons the students will produce some oral presentations and a final written document. B. The oral examination The oral exam will be on two compulsory text-books and on two investigation books, which will be chosen together with the teacher. The final grade will take into account either the results of this test or the skills learned by each student at the end of the practical experience. Possible additional activities: Aims, contents and didactic methodology: The aim of this course is to provide the students with the preliminary knowledge and the fundamental theory of the discipline, as well as with a useful presentation of Human-Centred Design (Ergonomics), of Industrial Design, of designer practice and of his vocational training. We will analyze the main historical stages, the movements, the schools and the most important representatives regarding Ergonomics and Industrial Design, in order to offer the cultural, the
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critical and the operative instruments to deal with the subsequent project with greater awareness. The terms human-factor engineering and human engineering are used interchangeably in the North American continent. In Europe, Japan, and most of the rest of the world the prevalent term is Ergonomics, a word made up of the Greek words, ergon, meaning work, and nomos, meaning rule, law.
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2007 > 2008

The Faculty of Architecture

> Joint Didactic Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Teaching Staff

Furlan Fabrizio, Pirani Aglaia, Tosatto Alessandro

> Student Procedures Commission ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Teaching Staff

Bertazzolo Diego, Sasco Andrea

International mobility delegate

> International Relations Commission - Erasmus/Socrates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

> Guidance Commission ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Commission guidance delegate

> Training Commission -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Specific didactic aims

Characteristics of the final examination

Foreseen work environments for graduates

Required knowledge for access art.6 D.M. 509/99

Current curricula 2007- 2008*

> Architectural specialisation degree -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Specific didactic aims

Characteristics of the final examination

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Current curricula 2007- 2008*

> Teaching description of Science of Architecture degree ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Architectural Planning Workshop I

faculty of facolt di architecture architettura

seen for the project solution stage.

Basic Scientific Workshop I

Fundamental computer science

Advanced modelling seminar

Basic Scientific Workshop II

Architectural planning workshop II

Architectural constructiom workshop I

Urban planning workshop I

Architectural planning workshop III

Architectural construction workshop II

Urban planning workshop II

Theory and history of industrial design

> Description of teaching of specialisation degree in Architecture ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Architectural planning workshop IV

Architectural construction workshop III

Urban planning workshop III

Economics of the city and territory workshop

History of the city and territory

Architectural planning workshop V

> Description of optional courses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Walling and wooden construction

Characters of contemporary cinema

Advanced automated design

Design and management of environmental resources of the landscape

History of architectural treatises

Contemporary project theory

Industrial (naval) design

The History and Techniques of Photography

Graphic Design and Visual Communication

Ergonomics Applied to Industrial Design

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