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This architectural design studio gathers terms, as complex architecture and restoration, like concepts and tools to act architectural design in material reality of built architecture and urban fabric.

Teaching aims to consolidate disciplinary knowledge and theoretical references, to nourish critical attitudes, to produce conscious architectural design choices. That approach allows dealing with complex architecture renovation and restoration design, with awareness of its cultural, material, formal, functional, structural, technological components.

Architectural design passes through a careful interpretation of the design brief applied to chosen site, pinpointing design references framed by their own relationship.

In general terms architectural design develops itself through all suitable techniques by various tasks and stages, pursuing its essential peculiarity at same time of the general layout. In this way each established concept of architecture becomes objective and the final design proposal can ultimately be built on thanks to its representation.

The complexity of architectural design process is managed in this studio through the interplay of Architectural design, Restoration, Structural design, Building services design, Materials for preservation, Technology and design in BIM environment. In order to achieve this purpose, tight and continuous coordination is essential to run the multiplicity of duties that contribute to a design process, paying any consideration needed to fulfill the whole/final construction design.

Knowledge and experiences will allow the conclusion of the Master’s training program up to the final exam and, subsequently, to the elaboration of the degree thesis.

Lectures, project reviews, workshops, and seminars will allow students to acquire the knowledge and skills appropriate to the conclusion of the Master's course of study and to the conscious elaboration of the degree thesis:

-the attitude to consider architecture as a form of knowledge, as critical thinking, as a tool for understanding reality in the perspective of its virtuous and ethical transformation.

-the ability to learn and elaborate the multidisciplinary skills of the compositional, constructive, structural, and

service- systems components.

-the ability to apply knowledge and understanding to issues and contexts of high complexity, responsibly facing and managing the design process at different scales and in all phases, from the conceptual moment to the executive one.

-the individual capacity of making judgments using multiple criteria in the evaluation of design decisions providing a range of benefits, social values and sustainable costs.

-the ability of communication using, in all areas of confrontation and discussion, the most effective verbal and drawing means.

The principal issue of this architectural design course and studio is the transformation of the built environment, moreover it focuses on contemporary cities, specifically in renovation and restoration of 1945-1970 European architectural heritage context, intended as buildings and related open spaces.

Therefore the subject of the upcoming design studio should be a historical complex of modern architecture in the urban fabric or landscape: restoration, renovation + extension/addition design. Current year studio topic is the “Società Umanitaria” architectural complex, Milano.

Lectures, project reviews, workshops, and seminars will allow students to acquire the knowledge and skills appropriate to the conclusion of the Master's course of study and to the conscious elaboration of the degree thesis:

-the attitude to consider architecture as a form of knowledge, as critical thinking, as a tool for understanding reality in the perspective of its virtuous and ethical transformation.

-the ability to learn and elaborate the multidisciplinary skills of the compositional, constructive, structural, and

service- systems components.

-the ability to apply knowledge and understanding to issues and contexts of high complexity, responsibly facing and managing the design process at different scales and in all phases, from the conceptual moment to the executive one.

-the individual capacity of making judgments using multiple criteria in the evaluation of design decisions providing a range of benefits, social values and sustainable costs.

-the ability of communication using, in all areas of confrontation and discussion, the most effective verbal and drawing means.

A.Riegl, Der moderne Denkmalkultus,Wien, 1903; The Modern Cult of Monuments, eng. by K.W.Forster, D.Ghirardo in Oppositions 2, 1982; Il culto moderno dei monumenti, italian edition by S.Scardocchia, Milano. 2017;