The University as a Settlement Principle: Territorialising Knowledge in Late 1960s Italy

ISBN-13: 9781138054615 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Francesco Zuddas

Opis

Focusing on the crisis and reform of higher education in Italy, this book investigates how university design became a lens for architects to interpret a complex historical moment that was marked by the construction of an unprecedented number of new campuses worldwide.

Spis treści

Introduction: University by (urban) design  Part I Beyond campus: Chronicle  Prologue I: Another campus  1. The campus phenomenon  2. Imagining an urban Italy  3. Reform or revolution  4. Architecture or system: A parable in four episodes  Epilogue I: End of an illusion  Part II Academic territories: Four takes  Prologue II: The principle of concentration  5. Exemplars of order: Vittorio Gregotti, Giuseppe Samonà, and academic gigantism  6. Information à la carte: Archizoom and territorial de-institutionalisation  7. Reversing the pyramid: Giancarlo De Carlo and the dilution of the university  8. The anti-city: Guido Canella and the nomadic university  Epilogue II: Academic instability  Conclusion: Towards academic commons

O autorze

Francesco Zuddas is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.