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Author Zuddas, Francesco

Title The University As a Settlement Principle : Territorialising Knowledge in Late 1960s Italy
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Series Routledge Research in Architecture Ser
Routledge Research in Architecture Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Timeline; Introduction: University by (urban) design; Notes; PART I: Beyond campus: Chronicle; Prologue I: Another campus; Note; 1. The campus phenomenon; Urban revolution; The fate of Jefferson: Campus neutralised; 1963: Academic community dissolved and reclaimed; Cedric Price: The large scale of higher education; Notes; 2. Imagining an urban Italy; Anxiety; A new urban dimension; ... or città territorio; Claiming originality: A temporary pause; Notes
3. Reform or revolutionThe chimera of autonomy; Minimalist reformism; Revolution and restoration; A precedent to reject; The university in academe; Notes; 4. Architecture or system: A parable in four episodes; The controversy of competitions; Florence, 1970: inside, outside, or neither; Cagliari, 1971: University workplace; Calabria, 1972: The spectre of the campus; Salerno, 1973: the triumph of system; Notes; Epilogue to Part I: End of an illusion; Notes; PART II: Academic territories: Four takes; Prologue II: The principle of concentration; Notes
5. Exemplars of order: Vittorio Gregotti, Giuseppe Samonà, and academic gigantismOrdering eagerness; 'New directions in Italian architecture'; Ambiente totale and the anthropogeographical project; Continuity or amnesia; Partisan interests; Cities with no outside; The concentration conundrum; Notes; 6. Information à la carte: Archizoom and territorial deinstitutionalisation; From knowledge to information; The Marxist-Operaist helix; Exaggeration or project; The deschooling helix; Territory of learning webs; Notes; 7. Reversing the pyramid: Giancarlo De Carlo and the dilution of the university
The founding of UniversicittàUrbino (or the cell and the collective); Dublin (or disciplinary reshuffling); Pavia (or diluting the university); School buildings: why/how?; Notes; 8. The anti-city: Guido Canella and the nomadic university; A system of learning; Politecnico di Milano 1963-74: experiment with a mass university; The complication of school; Theatrical pedagogy; The university is everywhere; Rappel à l'ordre; Notes; Epilogue II: Academic instability; Notes; Conclusion: Towards academic commons; Notes
Appendix 1: Conference on university design, ISES (Istituto per lo Sviluppo dell'Edilizia Sociale), Rome, 1-2 October 1970Appendix 2: Designing the Italian university: Four competitions; Appendix 3: Higher education: An international architectural discourse, 1960-1977; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Campus planning -- Italy
College buildings -- Italy -- Planning
College campuses.
Space (Architecture) -- Italy
Community and college -- Italy
campuses.
Campus planning
College buildings -- Planning
College campuses
Community and college
Space (Architecture)
Italy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351680271
1351680277
9781351680264
1351680269