Introducing the course on the art of building a city, during an academic year in which we perceived the necessity of examining in depth the technical aspects of the method. The discussed topic – the epicentre that constitutes the point of arrival of the fluxes space – indeed is contemplated by the citizens provided with...
The teaching of Structural Mechanics, as it is offered in Architecture Schools, suffered and is still suffering of an excess of formalization of knowledge. As a result, the deductive reasoning is privileged, in order to introduce these concepts not only in a correct way, but also as formally refined as possible. This approach – starting...
Architectural concept On Mars, our city will resemble the functions of a forest, using the local resources to breathe life into our community. Designing a forest symbolizes also the potential for expansive, outwards growth across Mars and the eventual possibility of terraforming its surface which would lead to the emergence of a second truly living...
Official event of XXI International Exposition of Triennale di Milano, Design After Design INDIAN ARCHITECTURE BUILDING DEMOCRACY: A WARM MODERNITY An Exhibition on the Origins of Participatory Architecture and further Fortune Museo Diocesano 2 April – 12 September curatorship, Maddalena d’Alfonso advisory, R. Mehrotra – photo, M. Introini – art direction, S. Mandato contributors,...
THE SERIES AND THE PARADIGM. FRANCO PURINI AND THE ART OF DRAWING AMONG THE MODERNS To the Tesler Generation Nearly a quarter of a century has gone by since the beginning of the digital revolution, which, substantially modifying processes of graphical and architectural representation, completely transformed architectural practices’ organisation and productive processes. It seems now is...
Calls from papers per n. 2 deadline 30th November 2014 It is possible to read and download ArcDueCittà magazine on this website: http://www.arcduecitta.it. Those contributors that we want to involve are young architects engaged in the profession or the academy, with the aim of promoting dialogue on the meaning of architecture. We expect that the...
I’ll introduce this series of lectures by showing the works that some students of the course “Contemporary architectural design methods” held in Politecnico di Milan from 2010 to 2013 that focused the deep relationship between theory practice and tools in contemporary architecture. The complexity of the contemporary architectural and urban scene requires an investigation on...
INTRODUCTION The aim of the course is to give a point of view about theory of architecture as an operative design tool. In this sense design is seen as a discipline that requires a method to transform an idea to something material; a strategy that allows us to select elements and/or physical characters and...
Foreword This Virtual space is for me an opportunity: the idea of this readings is to collect and organize lectures, research and studies into a framework focusing on contemporary design tools and methods. These studies are the result of a research started in the Phd School of architectural and urban design of the Politecnico di...
The block has been a basic element of urbanism since the beginning of cities. The ascending terms, block, superblock and megablock indicate a changing capacity and scale of urban organization and form over time. The sequence marks the block as an element in a clear urban hierarchy associated with ever growing cities; the historic...
Politecnico di Milano_the ATHENS programme_Nov 16th-23rd 2013 The Art of Building Cities*: a project for the XXI century city professors responsible: Ernesto d’Alfonso, Lorenzo Degli Esposti participating professors and researchers: Antonella Contin, Ernesto d’Alfonso, Maddalena d’Alfonso, Lorenzo Degli-Esposti, Ariela Rivetta, Andrea Vercellotti POLI9. *The Art of Urban Composition Intensive Course 18th_22th Nov....
IC CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNING METHODS 2012-13 STUDIES ON CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES prof. Matteo Fraschini tutors: Raana Saffari, Nicolò Pini Final Review 03-07-2013 h.9.30 room N.2.1 jury: Proff: E. d’Alfonso, Antonella Contin, Michele Moreno, Lorenzo Degli Esposti, Chiara Donisi, Giuseppe Boi
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