Addressing the multiple scales of the project (from design/graphic to architecture, from building techniques to urban cultures), the course investigates a set of occasions and channels (educational, academic, institutional, cultural…) which convey the exchange, focusing on individual trajectories and personal relationships, institutional programs, governmental projects and policies promoted by international organizations, conferences, books, magazines, exhibitions, and fairs. Particular attention will be devoted to examining the role that these occasions/channels had in the dissemination, penetration, and reception of models and ideas, as well as in the codification of new imageries and often generating misunderstanding. The course will also be developed through the participation of other members of the Ph.D. board and scholars who provided relevant contributions in the field. Students will be required to attend the lectures and the seminar activities. They will be asked to prepare a final paper.

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The course aims at inaugurating an exploration of the theme of the transfer of models, ideas, knowledge, and techniques between different geographical areas during the second half of the 20th century, aiming to investigate a set of less explored channels, occasions, actors, and vectors, which promoted and made possible the exchange but also to examine the forms of reception and hybridization at the local level when visions, models, and imageries enter in the discourses and practice of architects and planners. A first module will be aimed at providing methodological tools, introducing some interpretation keys helpful in dealing with the theme of circulation, transmission, and exchange; a second thematic module will focus on specific actors-vectors-places of the exchange (translations, schools, biographies, magazines, and exhibitions), to “map” (also through the involvement of the students) the complexity of the network of relationships and exchanges, in relation to specific geographical areas.

Mixed mode

Written report presentation - Oral presentation

P.D.2-2 - June