ARC400 : Italian Hill Town: Sustainable or Nostalgic Architecture and Urban Design?
Description:
The course investigates the Italian hill town as forms of sustainable architectural and urban design. Individual sites are studied in three frameworks: their historical origins, the environmental and social/political sustainability of the original designs, and the viability of the towns today. Topics include fortification design; typologies of street and piazza layouts; housing and small-industrial architecture; civic and religious architecture, spaces, and rituals; markets in plan, section, and economy; water supply; lighting; waste removal; city/countryside relations; pilgrimage, tourism, and contemporary culture; and the position of individual sites in relation to larger regional and global politics and economics.
Available Locations:
Italy
Semester(s) Offered:
Offered: Summer
Credits:
3
Department:
Architecture
