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OverviewThe 1960s and the 1970s marked a generational shift in architectural discourse at a time when the revolts inside universities condemned the academic institution as a major force behind the perpetuation of a controlling society. Focusing on the crisis and reform of higher education in Italy, The University as a Settlement Principle 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. Implicitly drawing parallels with the contemporary condition of the university under a regime of knowledge commodification, it reviews the vision proposed by architects such as Vittorio Gregotti, Giuseppe Samonà, Archizoom, Giancarlo De Carlo, and Guido Canella, among others, to challenge the university as a bureaucratic and self-contained entity, and defend, instead, the role of higher education as an agent for restructuring vast territories. Through their projects, the book discusses a most fertile and heroic moment of Italian architectural discourse and argues for a reconsideration of architecture’s obligation to question the status quo. This work will be of interest to postgraduate researchers and academics in architectural theory and history, campus design, planning theory, and history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Francesco Zuddas (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.630kg ISBN: 9781138054615ISBN 10: 1138054615 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 19 September 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 commonsReviewsWeaving together, architecture, urbanism, and the design of higher education in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s, Francesco Zuddas's The University as a Settlement Principle rejects the binary of city and campus arguing instead for an understanding of knowledge production as a territorial imperative. His tale of late-modern attempts at the reform of higher education and urban design are instructive for today's attempts to imbricate spaces of learning within the design of the contemporary city. - Sharon Haar, University of Michigan, USA Zuddas' book is an excellent examination of a little-known moment in campus design history... [It] does a commendable job of tying together developments in pedagogy broadly with the specifics of campus design as they manifested in his chosen cases. Excerpt from https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-university-as-a-settlement-principle-review - Bader AlBader, University of Michigan, USA Weaving together, architecture, urbanism, and the design of higher education in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s, Francesco Zuddas's The University as a Settlement Principle rejects the binary of city and campus arguing instead for an understanding of knowledge production as a territorial imperative. His tale of late-modern attempts at the reform of higher education and urban design are instructive for today's attempts to imbricate spaces of learning within the design of the contemporary city. - Sharon Haar, University of Michigan, USA Author InformationFrancesco Zuddas is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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