D1 - Knowledge and Understanding The module aims to provide: Knowledge of the historical origins and contemporary perspectives in the theory of architectural composition and urban design Understanding of the cultural, technical, and economic function of the architect in contemporary society Critical awareness of the social and ethical meanings connected to actions on existing structures as well as new constructions D2 - Ability to Apply Knowledge and Understanding The ability to apply knowledge to carry out a critical and independent analysis of the key issues characterizing contemporary architectural projects, to understand and navigate the landscape of contemporary production. D3 - Independent Judgment The main objective of the course is for students to develop the critical ability to relate concepts and objects, theories and architectures, in order to navigate the professional world with awareness of the role and intellectual responsibility that architects have to develop their own vision of the world and consequently take a stance on the processes of transforming the physical environment. D4 - Communication Skills The student must be able to communicate their analytical/critical study path through the preparation of texts and presentations, including the use of images. This aims to exercise and improve the ability to communicate concepts and theoretical elaborations. D5 - Learning Skills Finally, the course aims to stimulate the ability to independently discern between inductive/deductive reasoning, logical implications, and analogical principles in the analysis of the architectural phenomenon, so that the acquired skills can be applied in subsequent studies and theory courses.

Having attended architectural history courses and the Elements of Architectural Composition course;; desirable knowledge of 20th century art.

Lessons and exercises propose a reconnaissance between thematic areas and architects that characterize contemporary architecture. Central theme of the course 'Architecture and other forms of narration'. On the assumption that architecture is a form of narration, a discourse that the architect makes through the project, the lectures will compare this form of discourse with other forms of narration: cinema, literature, poetry. Compositional analogies, possible parallels, mutual influences will be highlighted. The two professors who share the ownership of the course will alternate and in some cases will be co-present in class, proposing an ideal comparison in two voices on on the topics addressed, hoping that their opinions and critical proposals will be joined by those of the students. There will be lectures by external guests followed by a seminar discussion.

General bibliography Telling Spaces, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2018 M. Biraghi, L'Architetto come intellettuale, Einaudi 2019; P. Eisenman, Ten Canonical Buildings, Rizzoli 2008;
 Le Corbusier, Verso un’architettura, Longanesi & C., Milano 1984;
 A. Loos, Parole nel vuoto, Adelphi, Milano 1972;
 I. Abalos, Il buon abitare. Pensare le case della modernità, Christian Marinotti edizioni, Milano 2009; C. Martì Aris, Silenzi eloquenti, Christian Marinotti edizioni, Milano 2002; R. Moneo, La solitudine degli edifici e altri scritti, Allemandi,Torino 1999;
 G. Bachelard, La poetica dello spazio, Edizioni Dedalo, 2006 E. N. Rogers, Esperienza dell’architettura, Einaudi, Torino 1958 (Skira, Milano 1997);
 A. Rossi, L’architettura della città, Marsilio,Venezia 1966 (CittàStudi, Milano 1995);
 A. Rossi, Autobiografia scientifica, Pratiche editrice, Milano 1999;
 C. Rowe, La matematica della villa ideale e altri scritti, Zanichelli, Bologna 1990;
 FAM, Magazine del Festival dell’architettura, ricerche e progetti sull’architettura e la città. N. 54 ottobre-dicembre 2020. Particularly:G. Guaragna, The Essential Role of Architecture in The Relationship Between Cinema and Novel. The Classic Example of ‘Psyco’ by Alfred Hitchcock G. Guaragna, Aldo Rossi Ora questo è perduto, Ed. il prato, Padova, 2017 Further bibliographic references will be provided on time during the course.

Central theme of the course 'Architecture and other forms of narration'.
Since we are deeply involved in the era of communication, the growing interest in the relationship between architecture and forms of narration is not surprising. amongst the many declinations in which the relationship can be interpreted (architecture and its story through critical comment, the theoretical text, the project report, or the discovery of narrative structures in architectural projects, to mention just a few examples) it can be enlightening to approach architecture in terms of a concept which is key to contemporary communication: storytelling.
The practice of telling stories as a strategy of persuasive communication has spread in formative, political, economic and business area before being considered as a useful tool for the architect: through the practice of storytelling the project is communicated, disclosed, explained and marketed.
The architecture becomes the subject of the story that is being told. for the architect and the student/researcher of architecture, storytellings widens and updates the traditional tools of representation, description and transmission of the discipline: first, by furnishing new relationships with agents of environmental transformation; secondly to satisfy a demand, which goes beyond that of multi-disciplinarity, for dialogue between architecture and other forms of media.
Architecture and narration maintain, however, a deeper bond: seemingly distant and irreconcilable in the materials with which they operate – stone and words, space and time, the heaviness of the one and the lightness of the other – they share various significant similarities if we consider them in terms of the boundaries they create between humans and the real world.
Studies of the two disciplines of architecture and the human sciences have extensively analysed the associations between literary texts and the architectural imagery contained therein or, vice versa, between architectural texts and the literary imagery that inspired it. In doing so, they have uncovered narrative structures in architectural projects, and literary works whose matrix is an architectural form.
But, beyond the mutual influence or even the resultant structural analogy, architecture and narration are intimately united by comparable motives.

The course includes a series of ex cathedra lectures, held weekly, in which the theoretical and analytical themes previously described will be explored in depth. Guest speakers will also be invited to participate.

In addition to the frontal lessons, shared readings are planned: students, divided into groups, will engage in reading a text or part of it aloud, discuss its contents, and prepare a report in the form of a text or a conceptual map to illustrate to the other groups.

This will be followed by a seminar discussion on the themes addressed by the texts read.

The course also includes the intermediate submission of an abstract and critical commentary on a text of the student's choice; the submission is individual.

Throughout the course, each student will submit three abstracts from different readings.

Further information and details of the program are available on the University Moodle platform http://moodle2.units.it.

The exam, conducted orally, involves a discussion on the topics covered in the course and on the three texts studied in depth by the student for the intermediate submissions. Students are allowed to use a PowerPoint presentation for their exposition.

The exam discussion aims to verify:

The student's degree of awareness of the theoretical issues raised by the architectural project
The ability to make connections between different topics and themes both within the disciplinary field and in related fields (referring to both the artistic field and the connections between architecture and social and political debate).
The exam score is assigned as a grade out of thirty.

To pass the exam (18/30), the student must demonstrate having acquired sufficient knowledge of the topics described among the learning objectives, a sufficient degree of awareness, and the ability to make connections. To achieve the maximum score (30/30 with honors), the student must demonstrate having acquired excellent knowledge of the topics described among the learning objectives, excellent autonomy in making connections between different topics and themes, and excellent awareness of theoretical issues.

The course is theoretical in nature, so the topics are of a cultural nature, however they are fundamental for the training of an architect who is aware of the social, political, cultural and also environmental responsibilities of those who are prepared to operate transformations in the built environment and in people's living places. Therefore, even if indirectly, the knowledge and skills acquired can contribute to the goal of Sustainable Cities and Communities, in particular to the redevelopment of the built environment. sustainable cities and communities, in particular to housing redevelopment, inclusive and sustainable urbanisation, promotion of cultural heritage