SPdA summer school of architecture 2015
the city and its inhabitants
After the Summer School 2014, which investigated the concept of city, in 2015, we will further explore the theme by analysing the relationship between the city and its inhabitants, because cities are not just sets of buildings, they are, above all, the meeting point between material things and human behaviour.
SPdA Residential Summer School of architecture
OCRA Montalcino (SI) – Gibellina (TP) – Rome
26 July – 03 August 2015
The workshop
After the Summer School 2014, which investigated the concept of city, in 2015, we will further explore the theme by analysing the relationship between the city and its inhabitants, because cities are not just sets of buildings, they are, above all, the meeting point between material things and human behaviour.
For Aristotle, cities were a way that people devised to organize themselves with the aim of achieving happiness. Therefore, cities did not need to have buildings in order to exist and their existence went beyond buildings. A city, including a contemporary city, is the set of men and women who live in it: its inhabitants.
A vital city is made up of an infinite set of overlapping functions that necessarily conflict with each other, as cities are, first and foremost, made up of a heterogeneous group of people who live together.
Architects who design the creation, transformation, expansion or reduction in size of a city cannot ignore this concept. The Summer School of Architecture 2015 investigates the notion of city starting from this concept through face-to-face lessons and many design workshops.