Genova Spring 2021

GENOVA SPRING 2021

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Students Graduate: Zach Stuermer

Undergraduate: Sarah Thomas Ana Luisa Lincon Carlo Mellone Zach Koeppen Vanessa Barilla Lillie Knox Tyler Yancey Jesse Parks Kelly Clark Morgan Schumacher Mikayla Woodbury

Undergraduate: (L.Arch) Dalton Burbage Molly Foote Morgan Oliver Hannah Durham

Professor in Residence Henrique Houayek*

Administrator Silvia Siboldi Carroll

Faculty Saverio Fera Giuditta Poletti Luca Rocco Danilo Vespier

Staff: Cristina Lagomarsino Lucia Ruggiero

Family Kelly Houayek Helena Houayek

This book is dedicated to the Daniel family and all the donors, and friends of the Villa for their generous support over the years.

Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Forrester Little & Associates Architects CU & RW Oakley Mr. Frederick George “Fritz” Roth Mrs. Jeanne G. Fowler Mr. and Mrs. John H. Jameson, Jr. Mr. Raymond Stainback, Thompson Ventulett Stainback & Associates

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DA Gardner Mr. William Pelham, Pelham Architects, LLC Mr. David Olesker, for the Anne Landsman Isenburger Memorial Fellowship Dr. Cesare Fera, in memoriam Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Powell Mrs. Mary F. Powell

The Spring 2021 remained as an online Genoa semester. Due to travel restrictions, as well as, health concerns, the Villa did not operate with students and all classes were set via Zoom.

As challenging as it can be, the Genoa faculty was able to set and organize a semester with the same level of excellence and distinction it has presented in the past. This book presents samples of the work developed by the students, focusing on its graphic pieces and Studio projects.

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Field Studies: Henrique Houayek Giuditta Poletti

Santa Maria di Castello As part of our study of Genova’s historical center and its historical typologies this semester, students will be requested to produce a series of drawings for the Santa Maria di Castello Church and religious complex. One of the seminal works of Romanesque style in Genoa.

The religious complex, belongs to the Dominican order, and it is located at the historical Castello hill. The church was erected before 900 AD and is a is part of a medieval composition of courtyards and towers with very important examples medieval art.

The study and understanding of this entire complex will give students´ an incredibly rich picture of how the city of Genova developed in its medieval and pre renascence times.

This assignment works to both explore and understand the intricate details of the Genovese architecture and its construction system, as well as provide better drafting and AUTOCAD + Photoshop tutorials to students.

This exercise has been developed at the villa for the last 2 years and its meant to continue with our graphic collection of seminal Genovese buildings.

A specific lecture on this complex is being organized for our first week of classes with Prof. Saverio Fera.

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Zach Stuermer Dalton Burbage

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Ana Luisa Lincon Tyler Yancey

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Sarah Thomas Hannah Durham

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Kelly Clark Jesse Parks

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Morgan Oliver Molly Foote

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Mikayla Woodbury Vanessa Barilla

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Lillie Knox Morgan Schumacher

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Carlo Mellone Zach Koeppen

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Italian Rationalism Saverio Fera

The purpose of this course is introduce to foreign students to a part of the Italian history of architecture. This history is part of the genealogy of many contemporary Italian architects. The seminar will be based on a series of lectures depicting the Italian architectural environment of the first half of the XX century. A specific bibliography will be given during the lectures.

As part of your study of Modern Italian Architecture (MIA)this semester, studentswill be requested to produce a poster with aset of accurate representationsof the axonsforsix different building from the Italian production of the Twenties and Thirties.

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Ana Licon Lopez UNED Library 16

Carlo Mellone Phillips Exeter Academy Library 17

Jesse Parks Viipuri Library 18

Kelly Clark Humboldt University Library 19

Lillian Knox Stockholm Public Library 20

Mikayla Woodbury Stockholm Public Library 21

Morgan Schumacher National and University Library 22

Tyler Yancey National and University Library 23

Vanessa Barilla Phillips Exeter Academy Library 24

Zach Koeppen University Library of Valencia 25

Studio Projects Henrique Houayek Luca Rocco Danilo Vespier

The Genovese Songwriter Library This semester proposes the challenge to design a public building located at the heart of the Genova historical Harbor, which affords both public access to books, media, and an overall rich and powerful public space, as well as a library to study, listen, watch and learn about written words and music, able to connect literature, cinema, television, etc. (perhaps more of an a mediatheque than a library).

The nature of its theme, challenges students to think about a building which will require both a closed area, as well as a direct relationship to its external spaces for small music events, connected to the site. Site and building must be though together and as one.

This library should be dedicated to a specific Genoese cultural venue that is the so-called Genoese Folksingers School. It grew up in the 1960´s and oriented a lot of folk singers around Italy and it is still recognized as a reference for whoever is involved in popular music. It had cultural links with French folk singers like Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel or American like Bob Dylan and with the so called underground literature of the time, like Edgar Lee Master´s, Spoon River Anthology and others…

Historically libraries have been not only the place for education, but also for gathering and encounter, an urban beacon for the community.

Libraries as an educational incubator is a space that not only sheds light on conventional means of knowledge but also encourages its users to interact, share ideas and grow together.

Project Area The area of intervention for this studio is situated at Genova’s Porta Siberia and the Piazzale Porto del Molo, its front parking lot. This area is part of Genova’s historical Port, a seminal landmark history, an its urban space.

Despite the strong historical significance, the target site is today an urban edge serving as a parking lot. Genova, a city which is proud of its long history, its positive urban spaces, its piazzas and walkable areas loses its urban and cultural strength at this leftover edge.

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Jesse Parks Kelly Clark Morgan Schumacher Molly Foote

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Ana Luisa Lincon Carlo Mellone Zach Koeppen Morgan Oliver

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Mikayla Woodbury Sarah Thomas Dalton Burbage Tyler Yancey

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Hannah Durham Vanessa Barilla Lillie Knox Zach Stuermer

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