The topic of the lecture is the reading of the built landscape according to the morphological processual method.

 

The method, developed above all with the aim of designing, analyses the built reality as architecture in continuous modification, studying its different stages of formation and transformation at the scale of the territory, the settlement, the fabric, the building, all considered architecture, matter transformed in time by the hand of man.

Based on the short time available, the lesson will try to provide a concise idea of the possible employ of some notions in use at the Italian processual morphological school to read:

• the territory as an organism made up of collaborating parts, that is formed and transformed starting from an original structure of routes; • the settlements as a product of territorial transformations. 
• the urban fabric as a society of buildings organized by common laws that changes over time, generating new building aggregates and polarizations; 
• the building as an element of the urban aggregate transformed in time on the basis of some typical characters continuously updated by new instances. 

Some theoretical principles on which the reading method is based, and practical examples will be presented. 

The lesson is divided into two parts presented by Giuseppe Strappa (territory and settlements) and Nicola Scardigno (fabric and buildings).