The Faculty of Architecture / Architecture (English taught)
4th Year, sem 1, 2023-2024

UP-7E | Urban Composition

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

Department:

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:

20% - three tests during the semester + 30% - seminar project + 50% - final exam; Requirements for passing the exam: minimum 5 average final grade, with minimum 5 at the seminar and minimum 5 at the final exam

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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