<p>Number & Title of Course: ARPL 302 R1 Architectural Design III, Rome, 6 credits</p><p>Course Description: This purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the fundamentals of urban space and multi-unit housing that defines urban space. Since this is the studio taught in Rome, the locus of study is Rome.</p><p>Course Goals and Objectives: ●To grasp the concept of figure-ground as it relates to urban space. In particular to be able to see the piazza as a figural void not only as a 2D phenomenon, but as a 3D space. ●To understand the formal ordering of urban space both morphologically and perceptually. ●To understand urban space as a social environment. ●To use Rome and other Italian cities and Vienna as an open classroom. ●To understand the historical layers of a city like Rome and how one might explain an ancient site through minimally invasive architectural means. ●To understand the genius loci of a place and respond contextually, yet in a contemporary architectural mode. ●To learn housing typologies and unit typologies. ●To learn to organize buildings and housing units in terms of served and service spaces, structure, & circulation. ●To understand the potential of housing to be a social environment. ●To understand housing as a series of territories from public, to semi-public, to semi-private, to private. ●To respond to local climate at the level at the fundamental level.</p><p>Student Performance Criteria addressed: A.2 Design Thinking Skills A.3 Visual Communication Skills A.4 Technical Documentation A.6 Fundamental Design Skills A.7 Use of Precedent A.8 Ordering Systems Skills C.1 Collaboration</p><p>Topical Outline: Project 1 Urban Space Analysis (5 groups; pencil rendering) 25% Project 1b Urban Design Sketch Problems (individual) 5% Project 2 Housing Analysis (9 groups; computer) 10% Project 3 Design Project with Rome Tre Students (multi-media) 10% Project 4 Piazza and Housing Project (hand drawing and/or computer; final pencil drawing) 45% Reading Notes 5%</p><p>Prerequisites: ARPL 301 Architectural Design II; ARPL 211, 212, 311 Architectural History Sequence</p><p>Textbooks/Learning Resources: Lynch, Kevin. Image of the City. (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1964) Bacon, Edmund. Design of Cities. (New York: Penguin Books, 1976) Krier, Rob. Urban Space. (New York: Rizzoli International, 1979) Schumacher, Thomas. “Contextualism: Urban Ideals + Deformations” in Casabella (no. 359-360, 1971) Sherwood, Roger. Modern Housing Prototypes. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1978) Nolli, Gian Battista. La Nuova Topografia di Roma. (Roma, 1748) Lanciani, Rodolfo. Forma Urbis Romae. (Roma: Quasar, 1990) Zucker, Paul. Town and Square: From the Agora to the Village Green. (NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 1970)</p><p>Offered: Spring only; annually</p><p>Faculty assigned last two academic years: Vytenis Gureckas (F/T)</p>