The Course, which will take place in collaboration with the Doctorate in Architectural and Landscape Heritage of the Polytechnic of Turin (scientific contact for the Course: Carlo Ravagnati), the Doctorate in Mediterranean archaeological, historical, architectural and landscape heritage of the Polytechnic of Bari (scientific contact for the Course: Carlo Moccia) and the Doctorate in Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari (scientific reference for the Course: Giorgio Peghin), will be open to all doctoral students of the Doctorates involved. The invited architects and designers are asked to describe their design research, starting with a question - "What is contemporary in Architecture?" – which takes up the position expressed by Giorgio Agamben in one of his well-known essays: "Contemporaneity is inscribed in the present, marking it first and foremost as archaic and only those who perceive the indices and signatures of the archaic in the most modern and recent can be contemporary with it.” In its organization, the Course offers doctoral students a seminar path that unfolds in lessons/discussions preceded by a multidisciplinary introductory seminar and concludes with a final workshop in which the postgraduate students will be able, like the guests, to present and discuss significant project cases concerning to the topics covered. NOTE: The Course will take place in collaboration with the Doctorate in Architectural and Landscape Heritage of the Polytechnic of Turin (scientific contact for the Course: Carlo Ravagnati), the Doctorate in Mediterranean archaeological, historical, architectural and Landscape Heritage of the Polytechnic of Bari (scientific reference for the Course: Carlo Moccia) and the Doctorate in Civil Engineering and Architecture of the Universitcangliari (scientific contact for the Course: Giorgio Peghin

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The invited architects and designers are asked to describe their design research, starting with a question What is contemporary in Architecture? which takes up the position expressed by Giorgio Agamben in one of his well-known essays: "Contemporaneity is inscribed in the present, marking it first and foremost as archaic and only those who perceive the indices and signatures of the archaic in the most modern and recent can be contemporary with it.” The lessons carried out in the Course will therefore focus on the theoretical description of the projects, whether realized or not, through which it is possible to trace and deconstruct in its technical steps, that "double temporality" of historical time and archaic time of which Vincenzo Vitiello speaks: "the archai escape historical time. Their "time" is different. Yet in the time of history they take shape. And their figures are the topoi - the places of history". Faced with the crisis of the role and meaning of Architecture in contemporary societies, often accentuated by the extra-disciplinary derivatives of the architects themselves, the investigation into the relationships between Archaic and Contemporary, if based on the concreteness of the projects, has the objective of affirming the need for Architecture as a discipline that deals with the form of the inhabited world, each time finding the reasons for the Archaic within the problems posed by contemporaneity. The guests invited to the Course were chosen for their ability to practice in scientific terms this necessary "double game" of the architect, always contemporary, because able to grasp and implement the Archaic.

On site

Oral presentation

P.D.1-1 - February

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