Urbanism and Country Planning
Head of department.prof.dr. Florin Machedon
The Department of Urbanism and Country Planning coordinates both the theoretical and design educational process in this field at all academic levels/degrees (Faculties, School of Advanced Studies).
Its members form a teaching and research corpus whose aim is to investigate the urban phenomenon, the territorial organisation of space, and, at the same time, the possible ways to approach them. Accordingly, they provide theoretical themes to be studied by the students at different educational levels, and the training of specific design methods.
The Department of Urbanism and Country Planning leads urban design studios too. The Department of Urbanism and Country Planning mainly provides the teaching body in charge with the project training; still members of the two Design Departments are involved. At the same time, an important number of invited/associated specialists, architects and non-architects, from Romania, but also from abroad - collaborate to cover the complexity of this pedagogical /educational process.
The courses, adapted to the particular aims of the curriculum of each unit, are generally articulated following the increasing complexity of education:
- · The basic information on city and environment, and analytical training in architectural and urban space are generally given in courses like Elements of environment in urbanism and history of urbanism; Analysis and town design; Technical and Utility Equipment. The study of morphological components of natural and built environment are emphasized through several analyses and specific representations of urban and architectural space, human and spatial and functional analyses of some elements (square; street; cluster of buildings, ensemble), as well as analyses and representations of the technical infrastructure. Elements of urban regulation are also taught.
- · Synthetic knowledge of planning and landscape architecture, urban renewal, town administration and management generally follow. The main lecture topics are: Urban structures; Sociology; Landscape architecture; Town administration; Sociology of dwelling, Recycling of the built stock; Territory planning; IT in Urbanism; Town Traffic.
- · This apparently technical spectrum is permanently enriched by laying emphasis on socio-human, aesthetical, and economic components of all these aspects, the aim being to develop the comprehensive perspective of the architect-planner to be.
- · At the same time, the application of this knowledge is reached within Planning studios, joint Architecture & Planning studios, and other practice activities, through complex studies on sites and volumetric and compositional studies, aiming to find the most appropriate insertion in the urban milieu. Students also acquire basic knowledge on the making of the urban regulation at the different levels imposed by the urban laws (PUD, detailed urban plan and PUZ, plan of urban zone).
Starting from the 8th semester, in parallel with the architectural training, students may choose a Major in Urbanism; they can choose more lectures offered by this Chair and elaborate designs of a higher level of difficulty. At the end of these studies they elaborate a diploma design in the field of urbanism and territory planning.
The staff of the Department of Urbanism and Country Planning carry on fruitful research, design, and expert examination activity in urban refurbishment and rehabilitation, ecology, protected areas and urban legislation, outer city territory and metropolitan zones, where the students who chose to further their knowledge in this field are invited to participate.
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