Architecture and Construction - Space and Society

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Academic year 2021/2022
Architettura e progetto
Sapienza Università di Roma
EQF level: 8
37° cicle
Field of study: architecture and construction humanities and literature
Place of teaching
roma (RM), italy
Attendance methods
Full time
Languages in which the course is held
Italian
Cost
Free course
Duration of the course
Nov 2021 - Oct 2024
Scholarships
6 
Deadline (Expired)
20 July 2021

Course contents

The PhD program in Architecture and Construction - Space and Society, aims at educating researchers who will be able to inquire into the entire disciplinary and phenomenological breadth leading architectural design and theorization to be embodies in built space, binding the ars aedificandi with the emerging needs of society.
These researchers will need to be able to reconstruct the links between design and building, recovering and reformulating the theorical-operational paradigms which have today lost much of their strength, bound to the invention of figuration, typology and urban morphology. The recovery of this fundamental knowledge will be carried out within a problematic field of highly innovative character, where the issues of the environmental crisis, the role of media, the recent urban transformations for the spectacularization of the city, and the new technological resources all play a fundamental role.
During the last two decades, urban and architectural design have on one side grown closer to the historical-critical areas, on the other to urban planning, with further outreaches towards anthropology and sociology. The central problematic area it once occupied was therefore abandoned. In seeking new and broader openings towards bordering disciplinary areas, and in the attempt at creating multiple connections with other aspects of architecture, the practice of urban and architectural design has broadened its horizon, thus losing its specific density, which considerably suffered from this process. A number of problems of great relevance today remain unsolved, such as the question on how architectural composition, with its intrinsic statute regarding the figuration, building typology and urban morphology, are translated, through specific processes, into buildings.
The PhD program is articulated in such a way as to focus the students’ experiences on the theoretical-practical aspects of research. The ignition of individual critical awareness is considered the primary value, together with the continuing critical confrontation with the faculty’s inputs, and with the state of knowledge as it emerges from recent publications and contributions. The entire range of issues included in the research program mirrors the research interests of the individual faculty members. It was deemed necessary to build the study and activity program on the basis of a single curriculum, with the intention of underscoring the natural disciplinary and operational extension of the scientific sector of urban and architectural design. The proposed curriculum thus responds to the double necessity of fundamental research and applied research, similar to what takes place in architecture, which given its double nature of practice and science requires skills extending to the entire cycle leading from the theoretical formulation to the dialectic confrontation with reality. In this sense the curriculum covers the field with modalities and intents which are otherwise not available in our University’s educational offer, aiming at the education of experts and cultural operators which are widely requested both in the field of research and of public administration. The interaction between architectural theory, realization techniques, and social studies are aimed at interpreting the mutations occurring in the contemporary cities, is likely to attract external subjects.
The curriculum’s organization is structured in order to offer students:
• The participation in group research activities organized by the program’s faculty, aiming providing them an experience of teamwork in this field. Where possible, these activities are to be coordinated with research taking place withing the Department of Architecture and Design, in order to enhance a possible synergy between the students’ and the instructors’ goals
• The participation in one or more thematic lecture cycles held by faculty members of external guests, aimed at providing students with a plurality of different views on the methodology of research. These lectures, to be held on a weekly basis, are a constituent part of the students’ first-year coursework.
• The participation in a reading seminar, dedicated to the study of some key texts indicated on the basis of each student’s research orientation. This activity is aimed at guiding students, during their first year, in a gradual approach to their individual research themes, allowing them to start the research work at the beginning of the second year. The seminar, which is concluded with a lecture and a paper by each student, is also useful to fine-tune scientific writing skills.
The first year fill therefore be balanced between group work and individual work. This initial training, which is coordinated by the PhD Board as a whole, is concluded by the indication of a thesis supervisor for each candidate, and the beginning of individual research work on the thesis. The supervisor’s role consists in supporting the candidates’ individual research throughout the thesis’s development, up until the dissertation’s defense.
The second and third year of activity is therefore dedicated to individual research, along the guidelines indicated by each supervisor. During each year candidates are asked to present the advancement of their research work to the PhD Board on three distinct occasions, tentatively in the months of February, June and October. Furthermore students can be involved, individually or in groups, in other research-oriented activities, such as seminars, design workshops or other activities taking place within the Department of Architecture and Design.
All PhD candidates are invited to actively take part in the Department’s cultural activities, participating in conferences, congresses, exhibitions and other events. Furthermore, their participation in national and international scientific initiatives is warmly encouraged. Finally, students are encouraged in the production of scientific papers to support the construction of an adequate scientific curriculum.
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Teaching

Place of teaching
roma (RM), italy
Duration of the course
Nov 2021 - Oct 2024
Attendance methods
Full time
Compulsory attendance
Full Time
Languages in which the course is held
Italian

Admission requirements

Type of degree required
2nd Level Degree
Field of study
architecture and construction, humanities and literature
Foreign language skills
-Il candidato dovrà obbligatoriamente conoscere una lingua a scelta tra
INGLESE
FRANCESE
SPAGNOLO

Admission

Deadline
20 July 2021
Available places
8
Admission
Admission selection
Prova scritta prova scritta min. 40 /60; max 60/60 1. carattere scientifico e innovativo della trattazione del tema: punteggio max 15 su 60 2. organicità della trattazione, capacità del candidato di strutturare e articolare il ragionamento: punteggio max 20 su 60 3. competenza specifica della disciplina, attitudine analitico/critica punteggio max 15 su 60 4. competenza di argomentazione e di costruzione linguistica punteggio max 10 su 60 lingua ITALIANO Prova orale prova orale (minimo 40/60 massimo 60/60) discussione sui titoli e il curriculum capacità di esporre le proprie competenze e interessi di ricerca punteggio max 25 su 60 discussione sulle questioni emerse dalla prova scritta capacità di organizzare il discorso e di argomentare le questioni proposte punteggio max 30 su 60 3. prova di lingua straniera per i candidati italiani ; per i candidati stranieri prova di lingua italiana punteggio max 5 su 60 lingua ITALIANO Proposta di ricerca. Nel corso della prova orale al candidato sarà richiesto di illustrare una proposta di ricerca che dimostri le capacità del candidato di impostare una ricerca. Criteri di valutazione del progetto di ricerca (max 60 punti) Ai fini della selezione per il dottorato di ricerca, il candidato dovrà presentare un progetto che possa far valutare la propensione alla ricerca e la sua capacità di organizzare in autonomia le diverse fasi del progetto che non dovrà superare la lunghezza massima di 8000 caratteri (spazi inclusi). Tale progetto, presentato ai fini concorsuali, non costituisce obbligo, per i candidati ammessi, allo svolgimento dell’attività di ricerca nel corso del dottorato. In particolare verranno valutati: Conoscenza dello stato dell’arte (15 punti) Originalità e contenuto innovativo (15 punti) Chiarezza e completezza dell’esposizione degli obiettivi, delle metodologie e dei potenziali risultati (15 punti) Pertinenza del progetto con gli obiettivi formativi del dottorato (15 punti) lingua ITALIANO
Cost
Free course
Scholarships
6

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Si richiede consegna di documentazione aggiuntiva. Le istruzioni sono pubblicate sul sito del dottorato www.draco-sapienza.it
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