1st Edition
The University as a Settlement Principle Territorialising Knowledge in Late 1960s Italy
Introduction: University by (urban) design
Part I Beyond campus: Chronicle
Prologue 1 Another campus
1. The campus phenomenon
2. Imagining an urban Italy
3. Reform or revolution
4. Architecture or system: A parable in four episodes
Epilogue 1 End of an illusion
Part II Academic territories: Four takes
Prologue 2 The principle of concentration
5. Exemplars of order: Vittorio Gregotti, Giuseppe Samonà and academic gigantism
6. Information à la carte: Archizoom and territorial de-institutionalisation
7. Reversing the pyramid: Giancarlo De Carlo and the dilution of the university
8. The Anti-City: Guido Canella and the nomadic university
Epilogue 2 Academic instability
Conclusion: Towards academic commons
Biography
Francesco Zuddas is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
"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
