Design Studio 1.7 - The Renaissance City
The Renaissance reinvented
Classicism as a system extending its grammar to correlate the new Humanist and Theological agendas. Immersed into a representational apparatus between canonical codes and the need for invention, architecture has faced since then a contradiction with consequences for the modern day. The studio will analyze that condition by studying the main treatises written during the Renaissance (Alberti, Serlio, Palladio, Vignola, Scamozzi) and its relationship with the built architecture and the cities they produced. As the focus will be on treatises, students will be asked - instead of drawing buildings - to map those canonical documents in order to decipher their practical and philosophical principles. Akin to the reliance on site documentation within the Renaissance era, a trip to Rome-Florence-Venice will be organized within the studio to analyze the sources and its historical transformation. A concluding visit to the Venice Biennale will critically confront this knowledge with the current production of architecture.
— Fernando Donis (DONIS)
Design Studio 1.7 The Renaissance City
- Tutor: Fernando Donis
- Fridays from 13h45 till 19h45
- Theme: Research
- Complexity: High / 7A / 2S / 9 ECTS
- Studyload: 9 credits (252 hours, 70 during the sessions)
- Remarks: This design studio is English spoken
