Beschreibung:
Focusing on the crisis and reform of higher education in Italy, this book 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.
Introduction: 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 commons