The University as a Settlement Principle
Territorialising Knowledge in Late 1960s Italy
Francesco Zuddas
The University as a Settlement Principle
Territorialising Knowledge in Late 1960s Italy
Francesco Zuddas
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Description
Focusing on the crisis and reform of higher education in Italy, this book investigates how university design became a lens for architects to interpret a complex historical moment that was marked by the construction of an unprecedented number of new campuses worldwide.
"Weaving together, architecture, urbanism, and the design of higher education in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s, Francesco Zuddas’s The University as a Settlement Principle rejects the binary of "city and campus" arguing instead for an understanding of knowledge production as a territorial imperative. His tale of late-modern attempts at the reform of higher education and urban design are instructive for today’s attempts to imbricate spaces of learning within the design of the contemporary city." - Sharon Haar, University of Michigan, USA
"Zuddas’ book is an excellent examination of a little-known moment in campus design history... [It] does a commendable job of tying together developments in pedagogy broadly with the specifics of campus design as they manifested in his chosen cases." Excerpt from https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-university-as-a-settlement-principle-review - Bader AlBader, University of Michigan, USA
Francesco Zuddas is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.