Tectonics of the Landscape

This course aims to explore landscape as a continuous evolution, shaped by the dynamic interaction between natural constructive processes and intensive human transformation. This interplay manifests and develops across diverse spatial and temporal scales. Landscape acts as a palimpsest, a human-made fabric that compiles the cumulative history of collective actions and designed spaces.
The focus will be on three main tectonic pillars of the landscape: soil, water, and vegetation.
Through a series of lectures on these constitutive elements, combined with the analysis, research, and re-drawing of a specific case study chosen for the course, students will gain the necessary skills to interpret landscape as a true form of architecture.

Observation, research, and comprehension of landscape as a tectonic and cultural construct. This involves understanding territorial transformations through cartographic, photographic, and written document analysis. It also encompasses a thorough understanding of the foundational elements of landscape tectonics: geology, topography, climate, hydrology, and ecology, recognizing their systemic function and spatio-temporal dynamics. The acquisition of practical drawing tools, applied to individual case studies, will lead to the creation of a series of analytical drawings and a critical understanding of the territory at various scales.

In presence

Lectures
Guest lectures on the chosen topic of study
Student research and re-drawing exercises

Work presentation during the exam session; 
Research and drawings during the semester
Paper and panel 180x180
Collective presentation, 20 minutes per group 

NOTE During semester it means groups work verification. Groups by 3-4 students. 

We will look into the possibility of a short trip at the beginning of the course.