The name ERASMUS is an acronym for European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students, but even more, it recalls the figure of a man who was a symbol of free thinking in Europe: Erasmus of Rotterdam. Striding across historical factors of geopolitical separation between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from the formation of the nation states to the clashing of Protestantism and Catholicism, the figure of Erasmus represented not only the freedom of critical thinking but also that of a man who found in European cities his natural ambit of expression. At this Erasmus Intensive Programme Workshop entitled “Compact City Architecture: historical city centre design in Europe”, 30 students from 4 European countries (Germany, Poland, Spain and Italy) and 5 Universities (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule of Aachen, Politechnika Krakowska,Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universidad del Pais Vasco, and the Università degli Studi di Parma) met and traded ideas on a project for a gateway to the University Campus in Parma’s Oltretorrente district. Working with the traditional tools of architecture and urban composition, the students were also asked to reflect on the more generic and topical theme of the development of the European city, which, through the recovery and rethinking of historical centres, represents a responsible alternative to the indiscriminate occupation of agricultural land that has taken place over the last twenty years.with that integrated process which includes the project, structure and image of settlement phenomena, in a position to restore its own identification synthesis in the renewed construction, yet again, of a form of city.
Compact City Architecture: historical city centre design in Europe
AMISTADI, LAMBERTO;
2012
Abstract
The name ERASMUS is an acronym for European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students, but even more, it recalls the figure of a man who was a symbol of free thinking in Europe: Erasmus of Rotterdam. Striding across historical factors of geopolitical separation between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from the formation of the nation states to the clashing of Protestantism and Catholicism, the figure of Erasmus represented not only the freedom of critical thinking but also that of a man who found in European cities his natural ambit of expression. At this Erasmus Intensive Programme Workshop entitled “Compact City Architecture: historical city centre design in Europe”, 30 students from 4 European countries (Germany, Poland, Spain and Italy) and 5 Universities (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule of Aachen, Politechnika Krakowska,Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universidad del Pais Vasco, and the Università degli Studi di Parma) met and traded ideas on a project for a gateway to the University Campus in Parma’s Oltretorrente district. Working with the traditional tools of architecture and urban composition, the students were also asked to reflect on the more generic and topical theme of the development of the European city, which, through the recovery and rethinking of historical centres, represents a responsible alternative to the indiscriminate occupation of agricultural land that has taken place over the last twenty years.with that integrated process which includes the project, structure and image of settlement phenomena, in a position to restore its own identification synthesis in the renewed construction, yet again, of a form of city.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.