Lectures related to Fictions Dynamic

Delves into the wealth and potential of fictions in architectural projects.

Showcases four architectural projects, including public building transformation, collective housing, and unique residential designs.

Urban Sprawl: Past, Present, and Future

Explores the historical evolution and challenges of urban sprawl, emphasizing the need for sustainable urban planning solutions.

Critical Urbanism of Lifestyles

Explores the relationship between urban planning and lifestyles, emphasizing the political implications of architectural forms and urban spaces.

Architectural Projects Showcase

Showcases four architectural projects, including a bus terminal, social housing renovation, and two residential designs.

Heritage and Transformations: Saint-Vincent-de-Paul District in Paris

Delves into the transformation of the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul district, emphasizing adaptive reuse, public engagement, and historical preservation.

Commonality: Urbanism and Public Realm

Delves into 'the commons' as a strategy against top-down city planning, exploring historical examples and contemporary projects.

Architecture Critique: Reconstruction and Preservation

Explores the critical analysis of architecture, emphasizing the concepts of reconstruction and preservation in urban spaces.

Urban Forms: Overview MOOC: African cities I, An introduction to urban planning

Explores the main urban forms shaping cities worldwide, from slums to commercial zones.

Urban Life in Ancient Greece

Explores the political organization of urban life in Ancient Greece, focusing on the transition from village to Polis and the significance of the Polis as a citizen state.

Urban Diagnostics: Proposals Matrix MOOC: African Cities III, urban planning and management

Concludes an exercise on urban diagnostics by connecting elements with proposals.

Architecture in the Age of Acceleration

Delves into 'the commons' as a strategy against acceleration in city planning.

Georgian Cities: Bath MOOC: Housing and Cities

Delves into the history and architectural evolution of Bath, highlighting its significant landmarks and key historical figures.

Haussmann's Urban Transformation MOOC: Housing and Cities

Explores Haussmann's urban transformation in 19th century Paris, focusing on architecture, social classes, and urban planning.

Socio-Political Utopia and Techno-Scientific Fiction

Discusses socio-political utopia, techno-scientific fiction, and irrational wonder in storytelling.

Semiotics: Reversibility

Explores the concept of reversibility in semiotics, analyzing the transition from utopias to dystopias through sign systems.

Urban Mobility and Fabric: Networks and Spaces MOOC: Mobility and urban planning

Explores the relationship between mobility and urban planning, focusing on networks and urban fabrics.

The Disenchanted Mountain: Tafuri and the American Metropolis

Explores Tafuri's critical writings on architecture, the skyscraper emergence, and New York's spatial planning, focusing on Rockefeller Center's transition from idealized vision to urban reality.

Utopia and Dystopia

Explores the origins and impact of utopian and dystopian literature on society.

Urban Transformation: Expo 58 MOOC: Mobility and urban planning

Delves into the urban transformation of Brussels during Expo 58.