The Faculty of Architecture / Architecture (English taught)
4th Year, sem 1, 2026-2027

UP-7E | Urban Composition

Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 2C+1L | ECTS Credits: 4

Department:

Urban and Landscape Design

Course Leader:

prof.dr.arh.,habil.urb. Tiberiu Florescu

Teaching language:

English

Learning outcomes:

It aims to develop students’ capacity to analyse and define the function and configuration of a possible urban image as a support for the architectural and urban creation process within the urban space; it also aims to develop students’ capacity to compose and expand their own qualitative judgment on the urban space configuration.

Content:

A new approach in Urban Composition;
Image in space;
The mechanism of urban image formation;
Perception in space;
The spatial configurative structural field;
Visualizing effects of spatial configuration;
Defining organized space through in site composition;
Relation between buildings and site; qualitative elements of organized spaces;
Particularity in organized space.

Teaching Method:

Ex-cathedra lectures, case studies and critical discussions in the seminar.

Assessment:

Practical Project - Seminar (the value obtained will represent the grade for the evaluation during the semester) + Final Exam

The final grade will result as an average between the Practical Project - Seminar value (50%) and the Final Exam value (50%)

Requirements:
Minimum 5,00 (rounded) average final grade, with minimum 5,00 at the Practical Project (Seminar) and minimum 5,00 at the Final Exam.

Eligibility to take the final assessment (final exam) is conditional upon a minimum 75% attendance at theoretical lectures and a minimum 75% attendance at the seminar sessions. Details regarding how attendance at lectures/seminars is measured are provided during the first lecture.

Bibliography:

MINIMUM
1. R.Laurian: Probleme de estetica a oraselor, Ed. Tehnica, Bucuresti – 1962
2. K. Lynch: Image of the City, Ed. R.U.R., Bucuresti – 2012
3. Al. Sandu: Urban Structures, course ...., Ed. U.A.U.I.M., Bucuresti – 1992
4. R. Arnheim: Centrul vizual, Ed. Meridiane, Bucuresti – 1995
5. R. Sennett: The conscience of the Eye, Ed. Norton – 1992
6. M. Merleau-Ponty: Fenomenologia perceptiei, ed. Aion, Oradea, 1999 (introduction and part two)
ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
7. Umberto Eco: Opera deschisa, ed. Paralela 45, Bucuresti, 2002 (Chapters. Opening, Information, Communication)
8. M. Roncayolo: Lectures de villes. Formes et temps, Ed. Parentheses, Paris, 2002
9. Al. Sandu: Articles in Arhitext Magazine nr. 1/2006, 5/2001, 1/2015

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