Master’s in Urban Vision and Architectural Design
Head of Urban and Landscape Design Department, Master Director: Gianandrea Barreca
Urban and Landscape Design Department Coordinator: Carla Addonizio
The MA in Urban Vision and Architectural Design is offered during the following term/s:
September 2012 – August 2013
| PROGRAM DESCRIPTION |
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Restoring vision in which planning, architecture and design skills, social and anthropological analysis, marketing and communication tools contribute to the creation of a new professional identity, able to redefine functions and aesthetics of architecture and urban space.
This program will be structured around five modules: Tools and Languages, Strategies and Vision, Architectural Link, Urban and Landscape Design, Architectural Design – consisting of lectures and workshops. At the end of the modules, participants will be involved in a learning and research experience through meetings with outstanding professionals of the field and technical visits to architectural sites.
Program Outline: The core courses are structured around five modules: Tools and Languages, Strategies and Vision, Architectural Link, Urban and Landscape Design, Architectural Design which are composed by both lectures and workshops
Tools and languages
The main aim of the Unit is to develop specific planning and analytical tools and methods. Milan, as a city, became a sort of an open laboratory to find new Tools for urban planning, architectural and landscape design, as well as to experiment new and innovative Languages: many and various ways to describe the city that sometimes overlap and make it clear how the different layers- urban planning, architecture and landscape – become one into the project. Between the main tools to read the city we consider photography, cinema, cartography virtual inspection through the web and more traditional survey by walking through the real city, blending in with the urban flow.
Strategies and Visions
In order to provide students with the necessary elements for a clear understanding of the cultural, social and economic rebounds of urban planning and development or re-development projects we analyze from a critical point of view the latest trends and themes concerned with urban design, territorial management and promotion.
Trough the observation of case histories we investigate the Strategies that are behind huge urban transformation projects aiming at pointing out differences between earlier state and final state. We also aim at designing a Vision, that is to say a proposal, of future possible scenarios.
Architectural Link
Starting from the analysis of the existing architectural tendencies, the present and future role of architecture, as well as the relationship among the different scales of the discipline: town planning; urban redevelopment, architecture, installation, design etc, we focus on the ability to outline and shape new design ideas Linked with Architecture key topics.
Urban and Landscape Design
As cities grow, it has become important to look for innovative Landscaping solutions for urban spaces. Architects and Urban planners design more than buildings. In the project of the contemporary city, the projects of the public space: grounds, parks, infrastructures, great services, museums, architecture of mobility, social spaces and physical connections, sustainable architectural design cannot be ignored. To feedback to this urge, the goal is to focus on a range of different approaches to one key challenge: designing livable Urban spaces.
Architectural Design
When architecturally describing a new structure, it is impossible to neglect urbanistic acts, territorial needs and tendencies, The main aim of this module is to combine different disciplines which form a Architectural Project, with a strong urbanistic figure and Architectural quality in the city.
Presentation and Dissertation: The Final Master Project is the key points of the work developed by students during the whole year. Students are required to design and define a project on decided topics; a dissertation: a written report which shows evidence of relevant and extensive research; and a sketchbook which collect the material that witness the development of the design project (photos, sketches, notes, references of books, magazines, websites, etc).
| PROGRAM OBJECTIVE |
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New geographies and territorial assets, a multitude of actors and environmental issues guides designers to go beyond buildings and produce new territorial visions. The urban transformation processes and the way economic, human, social and environmental resources are used, call for more complex competences and cooperation between various factors. This MA’s objective is to enable professionals to reflect on public space metamorphosis within contemporary urban context to re-design spaces, manage complex architectural and territorial issues using innovative analysis tools and design methods with particular focus on planning, landscape design, environmental sustainability and renewable energy.
| SAMPLE LECTURES/WORKSHOPS |
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Anthropology
Aesthetics of the Form
Architectural Composition
Building Repair and Renovation
Cartography
Communication
Design Theories and Techniques
Development and Regeneration of Historical Centers
Engineering
Environmental Sustainability
Geography
History
Infrastructure and Territory
Interior Design
Landscape Design
Light
Management
Materials
Photography
Territorial Marketing and Planning
Urban Economy
Urban Design
Urban Planning
Urban Repair and Renovation
Urban Trend
| THE AUDIENCE |
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This MA is geared towards young professionals as well as young graduates in Urban Architectural, Economics, Human Sciences, Social and Communication disciplines interested developing a personal taste and approach and improving their architectural sensitivity according to urban transformation needs.
| REQUIRED SOFTWARE |
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Microsoft Office Suite
Optional:
Photoshop or Illustrator
Auto Cad
Sketch Up or 3D Studio Max.
| IN COOPERATION WITH |
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AIM – Associazione per gli Interessi Metropolitani
ALER di Busto Arsizio (VA)
CdIE – Centro di Iniziativa Europea – Comune di Cuneo
CNS permasteelisa
Comune di Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
Comune di Voltaggio (AL)
Comune di Milano
Comune di Bogliasco (GE)
Comune di Corsico
Comune di Venezia
Comune di Venezia
Comune di Acqui Terme
Cooperative Muratori & Cementisti C.M.C. di Ravenna
Gruppo Clas
Hines
ING Real Estate India
Milano Metropoli – Development Agency
Milan Municipalicty
MU.VI.TA Museo Vivo delle Tecnologie per L’Ambiente
Pirelli Real Estate
Visiting Professors:
Alessandro Blengini (Studio Fuksas)
Stefano Boeri (Studio Boeri)
Rolando Borges Martins (Parque Expo– Lisbon)
Andrea Boschetti (Studio Metrogramma)
Franco Breglia (Scenari Immobiliari)
Marco Brizzi (iMage)
AntonellaBruzzese (A12)
Ivano Canteri (MKTP)
Aldo Cibic (studio Cibic)
Carla Costanzi(Comune di Genova)
Giorgio De Michelis (Università Milano Bicocca -Butera & Partners)
Hans Jorge Duvigneau (IBA Berlin)
Pierluigi Feltri (Studio 5+1)
Maria Carla Filauro (Sviluppo Genova) -
Martin Heller (Expo’02 – Swiss)
Peter Keinan (University of Tel Aviv)
Marco Lanata (City Life)
Italo Lupi (Abitare Magazine)
Brigitte Metra(Atelier Jean Nouvel)
Giovanni Nassi (Pirelli & C. Real Estate)
Fabrizio Pasquero (Non Solo Moda)
Elio Piroddi (Università La Sapienza-Roma)
Didier Rebois (Europan Europe)
Richard Rogers (Rogers Partnership)
Joan Rojg (Studio Rojg-Barcelona)
Giulia Rota (Regione Lombardia)
Andy Thornley (London School of Economics)
Oliviero Toscani (photographer)
| COMPETITION: “FILL THE CITY” |
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More and more new buildings are rising in cities all over the world, occupying great portions of otherwise unoccupied land and densifying the few remaining open spaces. Against this increasing trend, we want to turn the need to densify into a resource useful to revitalize the urban voids of city centers, stitching the urban fabric and finding a purpose for spaces yet to be defined. Through a proper investigation of people needs, the architectural project aims at producing density not only in merely volumetric terms but as intensity of functions, interactions, and urban qualities. Moreover, at a larger scale, this approach can help to define some strategic guidelines for surgical interventions spread around the city, aimed at reshaping the urban pattern and strengthen a social system that is getting progressively poorer and more fragile. The Urban Vision and Architectural Design Department would like to test your talent and skills in experimenting solutions for such a contemporary urban topic.
The Competition: Candidates are requested to select an empty lot (around 1200 m2), located within a compact urban
tissue of any city in the world. The lot must be void, abandoned, or underused, currently looking for a new spatial and functional identity. According to the main characteristics of the chosen context, candidates are asked to find the most suitable solution and design a building intended for a public activity (e.g. museum, library, theater, etc. ), able to re-activate the intensity of use of the area. They can also propose to apply the same intervention to other empty spaces within the selected urban center, offering a wider strategic vision. Thus, candidates should demonstrate the ability to conceive the architectural project as a process aimed at the definition of the urban pattern, by interpreting its physical, cultural, economic, and social features. At the same time, they should be able to keep the complexity of the architectural process under control, combining morphology, typology, technology, and aesthetics at the different scales.
Materials Required:
- Short written description of the project: maximum 2 A4 pages;
- Project boards: maximum 3 A3 boards at 300 dpi;
- Curriculum vitae of the participant: maximum 1 A4 page;
Statement of purpose: maximum 5 lines on an A4 page. The candidates are asked to send their materials in one sole file in .PDF format. Any further attached material will be considered a plus and will be evaluated by the jury.
Prizes:
- One scholarship covering 70% of the total tuition fee of the Master Program.
- One scholarship covering 50% of the total tuition fee of the Master Program.
- One scholarship covering 30% of the total tuition fee of the Master Program.
Deadline: Electronic entries must be sent to: micaela@saiprograms no later than May 4, 2012. Candidates will be informed about the results of the competition by e-mail on May 18th, 2012.