Abstract [1]
In the 1960s-70s,
unrest in universities leads to the spilling out of the academic institution into
the city - as is manifested in the student protests. The encounter between
university and city is rapidly appropriated by architecture that turns it into
one of the most used and abused metaphors to legitimate a sought-after epistemic
break from the functionalist dogma. By considering the design and intellectual
work done by Shadrach Woods and Giancarlo De Carlo on the changing condition of
higher education, this article discusses two approaches to the metaphor
university=city. While similar in their intentions – to the point of being
grouped under the same label of “mat-building” – they diverge widely in the
ways they propose how the architectural project could address such a metaphor.
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“Can a university become an opportunity for
broad cultural interaction, which implies creative disorder, if its pattern is
entirely and perpetually conditioned by the strait-jacket of a materialized
grid? [...] Shouldn’t a grid be just an intellectual discipline that ought to
fade out, and allow a counter-move of contradiction, as the generation of space
and forms takes place?”
[Giancarlo De
Carlo][2]
“[…] The intellectual grid is all in your head.
But people (& pipes) need direct routes, instead
Of so much indeterminate art,
In which building is clearly to be the last part.”
[Shadrach Woods][3]
For about a
decade, between the 1960s and 70s, the university becomes a breeding-ground for
desires and frustrations. The widening of the ideological divide of the Cold
War puts increasing pressure on technological progress and the related need for
a deep revision of the ties between industry and higher education. If we add to
this the fact that the baby-boom generation reaches college age in the 1960’s,
it becomes apparent how the university becomes a major instrument for
controlling and planning a rapidly changing society. The ways in which the
university is organised in space plays a central role and this represents a
favourable contingency for architecture, which finds itself among the main
actors called upon to advance novel thinking about the academic institution [4].
The new centrality
accorded to the university within society is effectively captured by Joseph
Rykwert who, in 1968, defines it the institutional archetype of its age – much
like the temples for ancient Greece, the baths for the Romans and the
cathedrals for the Middle Ages.[5] For the architects this causes the university to act as ground for the experimentation
of settlement forms and principles for a wide restructuring of urbanised
territories. In other words, the project of the university is seen as the
possibility of shining a light on the critical condition of society that is
rapidly projected towards its total urbanisation.
It is probably
just a chance that the crisis of the élite university develops in parallel to
the formulation of the promise of a new season for architecture. For some
architects, this is arguably a fortunate coincidence. It is indeed on the topic
of higher education that much of the rhetoric eloquence of a new generation of
architects is spent with the aim of overcoming the functionalist dogma of
previous years. The most eloquent image of such aim is the photo of the
founding members of Team X posing with the death certificate of CIAM in 1959 at
Otterlo. However, the promised generational switch is not exempt from demagogy.
Conversely, it is precisely on the formulation of somewhat demagogic slogans
that the young generation challenges the old one. The slogans vary from the
recovery and “learning from” traditional habitats to the exhumation of the
street from Corbusian murder. One particular slogan postulates the identity of
university and city.
It is established
knowledge that the first tangible signs of academic protest emerge around 1963.[6] From sit-ins at Berkeley to the occupation of the architecture schools in Italy [7],
the discontent with a paternalistic university that still discriminates between
who can or cannot access it, combines with a critique of the power collusion
between national and academic governments. The university is thus placed under
scrutiny in a trial against social oppression orchestrated by the highest
authorities so that thinking of a new idea of the university means undermining
its stability and territorial control. For many, the final goal becomes to move
authority into the hands of those who should benefit of higher education as an
open service. The pouring of the
university onto the streets during the student protests appears a particularly
attractive metaphor for the post-Modern Movement generation of architects, to
the point of being immediately appropriated for a more general goal: the
university offers the possibility for an epistemic rupture in the architectural
and urbanistic discourse. The identity of city and university thus becomes one
of the most used and abused rhetorical figures that are deployed to legitimise
a change of direction in the way of conceiving the built environment. The
change is, allegedly, from the aerial gaze of modernism back to more “humanistic”
concerns; that is, back to the gaze of the man in the street.
This text discusses
two interpretations of the metaphor city=university – a metaphor that should be
understood as two-directional. While born from common ideological foundations
these interpretations offer two very divergent ways of postulating how
architecture can operatively appropriate that metaphor. The first
interpretation postulates the feasibility of an interior diagram; that is to
say, of a large building capable of fusing city and university from within. The
second argues that it is only in the larger urban domain – and without any
stable configuration – that such fusion can happen. The former response is
offered by American architect and Team X member Shadrach Woods; the latter is
proposed by his colleague and friend, the Italian Giancarlo De Carlo.
I mentioned that
by the early 1960s the identity of university and city is instrumentally used
by architects to shift attention towards the viewpoint of the man in the
street. “The man in the street” is
the title given by Shadrach Woods to a series of lectures he delivered in Scandinavia
in 1966.[8] More in general, this is a title that summarises an entire generation of
architects and their thinking. At the same time, Woods is also the mind behind
what architectural history has registered as a virtuous interpretation of the
role of the university as testing ground for new urban forms and for new ideas
of the city. This is the project for the Berlin Free University, which was
produced by Candilis, Josic & Woods in 1962-63 – that is, in parallel to
the emergence of student unrest.[9]
The first to
acknowledge a paradigm shift caused by the Berlin project was Alison Smithson,
who partook with Woods in Team X’s attempt to renovate architectural culture.
Writing on the pages of Architectural Design in 1974, the British architect saw
in the completion of a first construction stage of the building in Berlin the
coagulation of an architectural trajectory that considered the built environment
as process rather than as product. The phenomenon observed by Smithson was only
lacking an official name, which she promptly attributed: mat-building.[10]
At the beginning
of the new millennium and triggered by growing interest in Landscape Urbanism’s
postulation of large scale planning as the articulation of “fields” of forces –
an approach that develops in parallel and as an alternative to the
proliferation of objects of “iconic” architecture – mat-building has found new
followers. Eric Mumford has talked of “mat
approach” to define a switch of focus from the creation of finite forms “to the provisional organization of fields of
urban activity, which are understood to have a constantly changing character.”[11] Referring to Smithson’s article, Stan Allen has firstly listed the
architectural objectives of mat-building – “a
shallow but dense section, activated by ramps and double-height voids; the
unifying capacity of the large open roof; a site strategy that lets the city
flow through the project; a delicate interplay of repetition and variation”-
to then almost discredit such architectural reading and point out that the “sense of accumulation and change [proper
of mat-building]…is most effectively put
in play within an urbanistic assemblage.”[12]
In Mumford and
Allen’s statements we find the contradiction that is inherent to the very
notion of mat-building. As already pointed out by Timothy Hyde, mat-building is
uncertainly trapped between the status of a noun and that of a verb.[13] On the one side, it can be understood as a specific object that, extensive as
its dimensions and complex its interior organisation can be, endures in its
status of a finite building. On the other side, mat-building can be conceived
as a way to design; that is, an organisational diagram that cannot be trapped
within the walls of a single building but that aims at defining settlement
principles of a wider scope.
Such an ambiguous
definition becomes all the more apparent if one confronts the Berlin university
and its theoretical-rhetorical bases – that also apply to a lineage of projects
produced by the same office of Candilis, Josic & Woods – with the
intellectual and design work between university and urban planning of another
Team X member: Giancarlo De Carlo. De Carlo’s oeuvre on this topic is
influenced by his direct observation of the student protests in the 1960s and
is developed through the publication of some key texts on the meaning of
educational institutions [14],
and the production of three projects for universities in Urbino, Dublin and
Pavia.
A re-reading of
the design responses by De Carlo and Woods appears all the more relevant today.
That is because talks of the “crisis” of the university are still widespread –
albeit not much among architects as in the past – and the metaphor
city=university (or the related city=campus) seems to be back in shape with all
its demagogic power.[15]
To understand
affinities and divergences in the ways Woods and De Carlo deal with the idea of
an identity of university and city, it is useful to consider their simultaneous
participation in two different occasions. The first was the architectural
competition for the design of University College Dublin in 1963 where both
architects submitted, without winning, their interpretation of mat-building.
The second is the publication of two essays on the Harvard Educational Review
in 1969: “Why/How to build school
buildings” by De Carlo and “The
Education Bazaar” by Woods [16].
The two architects
share many common concerns and their overall thesis seems to be the same. It
can be summarised thus: education – including higher education – cannot be
accomplished only inside the institutional space of the university. Rather, it
derives from experience. Inevitably – as the argument goes – the institution of
the school impedes those experiences that are not relevant to the fulfilment of
its own interests. This is the way an institution can guarantee its survival.
Only when
institutions are “interrupted” can “total experience” be reached. This was
stated by De Carlo in the essay “La
Piramide Rovesciata” (The Overturned Pyramid), which originated from an
observation of student unrest between 1963 and 1968, that is, when the
university spilled out onto the streets.[17] The predicaments of John Dewey and Ivan Illich resonate particularly clear with
De Carlo’s statement. The former had postulated the coincidence of education
and experience whereas the latter went even further to make the hypothesis of
overcoming the very idea of the school as an institution.[18]
Illich, De Carlo
and Woods share a common goal: how to make such overcoming possible. Aware of
the unlikeliness of an abrupt rupture, they agree that the only possible
strategy to attempt is the set up of the conditions that will eventually allow
alternative routes to learning. Dismantling the still feudal reality of the
university thus becomes the main objective. However similar the intentions, the
design approaches of the two architects turn out to be highly different, almost
opposite to one another.
A main difference
between the two mentioned essays of 1969 relates to how they are positioned in
relation to their respective authors. Woods’s “The Education Bazaar” can be considered a retroactive manifesto in
which the American architect articulates in written form the theses at the
basis of his projects for the universities of Berlin and Dublin. It is thus no
coincidence that the text is illustrated with the conceptual drawings produced
for the Berlin competition and a portion of the plan and a bird’s eye perspective
of the Dublin project. Conversely, De Carlo’s is a manifesto “a priori” that is
waiting for a project, hence the choice of illustrating it only with photos of
the student protest in Milan rather than with architectural drawings.
It would be incorrect,
however, to think that De Carlo waited the aftermath of ’68 to act “as an
architect”, that is, with a project. The Genoese architect had indeed been
active for about a decade in “Planning
and designing universities” (also the title of a book he edited in 1968). Despite
both being active as designers of universities, there is a fundamental
difference between the conceptual approaches of De Carlo and Woods. The latter
has perfected an architectural device that was originally conceived in 1961 to
revitalise the urban centre of Frankfurt and has found fertile ground in the
domain of university space. It is in Berlin that Woods fine-tunes his
prototype, which is then ready for faithful reiteration in the Dublin project.
In fact, both projects are always labelled in Woods’ hand-drawn notes as “University as City”, a motto
purposefully counterpoised to “University
in City”. [19]
The equivalent of
a prototype cannot be found in De Carlo’s work. Therefore, the possibility of
labelling his and Woods’ projects for Dublin as “mat-buildings” starts showing
its shortcomings. [20] A
general look at the two projects would, indeed, lead to find in both of them most
of the architectural objectives summarised by Stan Allen. Thus, they appear to
rightly belong to Alison Smithson’s genealogy. Differences are, however, more
relevant than affinities.
The most evident
difference is in the handling of the project’s boundary. Repeating what done
the previous year in Berlin, Woods defines a clear limit, a rectangle that is
in stark contrast with the complexity of the interior spaces. Woods’ project is
indeed fundamentally a project of interiors. It aims to redefine the idea of
the university from within by reshuffling its components. This is the literal
transposition into space of an idea that in the 1960s was becoming central to
the theory of knowledge creation, namely the idea of multi-disciplinarity. In
fact, it was becoming common belief that innovation never happens within the comfort
zone of a single discipline but always on the divide among different
domains.
De Carlo’s project
for Dublin also moves from a willingness to dismantle a culture of
mono-disciplinarity. Similarly to Woods’, his project deploys a modular grid
for the organisation in space of a university’s programmatic requirements.
These are separated in their elementary components and scattered throughout the
university site. Whereas Woods explicitly declares the presence of an
organising grid, De Carlo aims at its blurring into a settlement with uncertain
edges. The interior streets designed by Woods as the linear materialisation of
an orthogonal grid distributing the ever-changing programme of the university
are contrasted to the tree-diagram conceived by De Carlo. Here, the only fixed
element is the central spine onto which spaces of varying specialisation levels
are attached. It is, in fact, on the literal and constricting handling of the
grid that De Carlo moves his main critique to his friend Woods, getting as
response: “The intellectual grid is all
in your head. But people (& pipes) need direct routes, instead”. [21]
]If it is
undeniable that the same rhetorical levels – as manifested in notions of
indeterminateness and variability - apply to both projects, the different
treatment of the settlement’s boundary and the different handling of the grid
as an organising device is fundamental to understand the divergence between two
approaches to the metaphor university=city.
For Woods, an
understanding of the university as an organism portraying the complexity of an
urban environment is translated into a large spatial device that promises
infinite possibilities of interior recombination from within the certainty of
its boundary. It is thus not a coincidence that Woods changes the title of his
1969 essay from “The educational super
mart” (an early manuscript [22])
to “The Education Bazaar”. The Arabic
bazaar, that is, a large architectural machinery marked by labyrinthic
interiors contained within a clear edge, becomes for Woods a main reference.
Woods’ university=city
can only function as a remedial device inserted within a specific urban – or
more precisely suburban – condition. As it has been observed by Alexander
Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, the Berlin university is located in one of the
richest residential suburbs and its aim is to swallow up its inhabitants to
dissolve their suburban identity and convert them “to a more humanistic way of life”. [23] The university-bazaar cannot go beyond this, as noted by Kenneth Frampton’s
observation that “however much a
university may function like a city in microcosm, it cannot generate the
animated diversity of the city proper.”[24]
In Berlin – and subsequently in Dublin – the promise of the university=city
shines in its entire rhetorical splendour.
For De Carlo,
Dublin is the opportunity to fine-tune the definition of what he discussed in
his texts as a new model for the university. The objective is to overcome
established and old-fashioned models that, according to the Genoese, have
become similarly ineffectual. These models are the American campus, the
university complex of continental European origins and the university
fragmented into faculties. The latter was an array of dispersed atoms that
characterised the schizophrenic Italian academic system.[25] The
Dublin competition engages De Carlo with what has become a canonical brief in
the 1960s, namely the creation of a large university settlement in an urban
periphery. In fact, the number of universities that during that decade expand
their physical presence or build entire new settlements on former rural areas
is almost countless throughout the western world. However, De Carlo does not insist
on a comprehension of the university through the dichotomy “out of town versus
inside town”. Rather, for him the university is the key institution to allow
the very rethinking of the idea of the city. This is the idea of the “City
Region” (Città Regione), for which De Carlo contributed a preliminary
definition in 1962 at a conference on urbanism in Stresa, presenting it as the
new scale of thinking for urbanists.[26]
An interest in
understanding the university as the foundation for a new idea of the city is
thus a constant in De Carlo’s work. However, this does not result either in the
definition of a prototype or in the reiteration of an architectural model.
Dublin is where De Carlo starts reshuffling the components of a large
university settlement. His aim is to infiltrate within the more specialised
spaces a whole array of generic spaces that could be open to general public
use. The exterior spaces of the university are also catered for public use and
conceived as a new urban park that is to be understood as a response to the
growth of a leisure-based society during the post-war years. The large scale of
the university settlement - while located on a peripheral site – guarantees it
capacity to enable the projection of urbanity over a large territory. This
objective is not dissimilar to what De Carlo is simultaneously pursuing in
Urbino. The creation of a new “rock” – the new university colleges – in front
of the old one of the medieval city – itself modified through the injection of
academic spaces – expresses a notion of the “urban” beyond what the term “city”
– at least in Italy – still evokes.[27]
The approach set
in Urbino and Dublin culminates in the Plan for the Restructuring of the
University of Pavia, on which De Carlo starts working in 1971.[28]
In the Lombard city the territorial dimension of the city and of the university
is most explicitly stated. The plan is based on a diffusion of university “poles”
that De Carlo classifies as “central”,
“intermediate” and “peripheral”. Similarly to what done in
Urbino the project mixes new construction with the reuse of existing buildings.
What is more relevant about the project is that the poles are not only scattered
throughout areas that are properly “urban”. Indeed, the university is provided
with mobile elements, which are conceived as temporary observatories in a
continuous pilgrimage over a wide regional territory.
The university is
thus declared as the key element to allow re-thinking the city at the larger
scale of a wide territory. More specifically, what De Carlo accomplishes in
Pavia is the definitive affirmation of the architectural project as an
instrument to put into crisis the very idea of the university. This happens in
a very different way than done by Woods with his university-bazaar. As seen,
the latter is mostly concerned with interior recombinations so that it never
accomplishes the final de-territorialisation of higher education. The university,
in other words, endures in its nature of a large, fortified complex – the very
nature fought against by the ’68 generation.
De Carlo’s
definition of the university as a system of dispersed poles in the urban fabric
and the simultaneous injection within the poles of spaces for generic public
use are a statement for the dilution of academic systems of power and the
destabilisation of the old centralised university. This is the way he uses the
architectural project to respond to the critique of the “unity of place” of educational institutions, which he proposed in
his 1969 essay. The university is exploded and transformed into a large urban
infrastructure that is expected to house properly “academic” functions only
temporarily. The real aim is for a long-term strategy to set up the conditions
for continuous re-territorialisations of the university, which would enable
routes to learning alternative to the traditional, top-down ones.[29]
That is to say, the aim is the ultimate deschooling of society postulated by
Illich.
The result is the
constantly unsettled urbanistic assemblage described by Stan Allen as the
correct interpretation of the notion of mat-building. The diagram conceived by
Woods identifies city and university through an understanding of mat-building
as a noun – the mat-building, that
is, a built object allegedly capable of recreating the city. Pavia – but also
Urbino and Dublin – shows how De Carlo interprets mat-building as a verb, that
is, as a project in continuous becoming. The logic response to an institution
that is itself in continuous becoming – the university – is to guarantee its
enduring in an unsettled condition. The university does not want to integrate
itself in the city: it has to act as a disturbing element. If that weren’t the
case, we would face the ultimate death of the university – which we probably
are still mourning today.
Note
[1] This text is a re-worked version of part of a chapter from the PhD
thesis by the author titled The
University as a Settlement Principle. The Territorialisation of Knowledge in
1970s Italy, (Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 2015).
[2] G.De Carlo, Comment on the Free University, Architecture
Plus 2, no. 1 (January 1974): 50–51.
[3] S. Woods, Remember the Spring of the Old Days?, Architecture
Plus 2, no. 1 (January 1974): 51.
[4] For a recent and detailed discussion on the institutional and physical
expansion of universities in the 1960s-70s see S. Muthesius, The Postwar
University: Utopianist Campus and College (London: Yale University Press,
2000). Among the numerous texts written at the time of the events see (for a
mostly Anglo-American discussion): C. Kerr, The Uses of the University (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1963); R. P. Dober, Campus Planning (New York:
Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1963); M. Brawne, ed., University Planning and
Design: A Symposium, Architectural Association Paper 3 (London: Lund
Humphries for the Architectural Association, 1967). Similar
critical accounts were contributed by some Italian architects; see in
particular: G. De Carlo, ed., Pianificazione E Disegno Delle
Università (Roma: Edizioni universitarie italiane, 1968); P. Coppola
Pignatelli, L’Università in Espansione. Orientamenti Dell’edilizia
Universitaria (Milano: Etas Kompass, 1969).
[5] Joseph
Rykwert, Universities as Institutional Archetypes of Our Age, Zodiac
18 (1968): 61–63.
[6] VV.AA.,
Contro l’Università. I Principali Documenti Della Critica Radicale Alle
Istituzioni Accademiche Del Sessantotto (Milano: Mimesis, 2008).
[7] Cf.
M. Biraghi, Università. La Facoltà di
Architettura del Politecnico di Milano, in Italia 60/70. Una stagione
dell’architettura, a cura di M. Biraghi et al., 87-98. Il Poligrafo, Padova, 2010.
[8] Woods used the same title for one of his books, which was published
posthumously: S. Woods, The Man in the Street. A Polemic on Urbanism
(Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1975).
[9] The project for Berlin was amply covered on the international magazines
of architecture. See in particular: Architectural Design, August 1964 (issue on
Team X) and January 1974; and S. Woods, Free University Berlin, ed. John Donat (New York: The
Viking Press, 1965), 116–17. See also Gabriel Feld et al., ed., Free
University, Berlin: Candilis, Josic, Woods, Schiedhelm (London:
Architectural Association, 1999). For a general discussion of the work of
Candilis, Josic & Woods see: Tom Avermaete, Another Modern. The Post-War
Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (Rotterdam: NAi, 2005).
[10] A. Smithson, How to Recognise and Read Mat Building, Architectural
Design, no. 9 (September 1974): 573–90.
[11] E. Mumford, The Emergence of Mat or Field Buildings, in Le
Corbusier’s Venice Hospital and the Mat Building Revival, ed. Hashim Sarkis
(Munich London New York: Prestel Verlag, 2001), 48–65.
[12] S. Allen, Mat Urbanism: The Thick 2-D, in Le Corbusier’s Venice
Hospital and the Mat Building Revival, ed. H. Sarkis (Munich London New
York: Prestel Verlag, 2001), 118–26.
[13] T. Hyde, How to Construct an Architectural Geneaology, in Le
Corbusier’s Venice Hospital and the Mat Building Revival, ed. H. Sarkis
(Munich London New York: Prestel Verlag, 2001), 104–17.
[14] The most important texts by De Carlo on education and the university
are: G. De Carlo, Why/How to Build School Buildings, Harvard Educational Review,
no. 4 (1969) re-published as ‘Ordine Istituzione Educazione Disordine’, Casabella,
no. 368–69 (August 1972): 12–35; La Piramide Rovesciata (Bari: De
Donato, 1968); Pianificazione E Disegno Delle Università;: 65–71; Il
Territorio Senza Università, Parametro, no. 21–22 (November 1973):
38–39.
[15] An interesting recent study of the relations between university and
city that, despite its title, goes beyond the mere metaphorical treatment of
their identity is: S. Haar, The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in
Chicago (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).
[16] S. Woods, The Education Bazaar, Harvard Educational Review,
no. 4 (1969): 116–25.
[17] De Carlo, Why/How to Build School Buildings.
[18] John Dewey, Experience and Education (New York: The Macmillan
company, 1938); I. Illich, Deschooling Society (London and New York: Marion
Boyars, 1970).
[19] A manuscript note by Woods held at Avery Drawings & Archives, Columbia University, shows explicitly this contrast: the label University in City is modified into University as City.
[20] For
De Carlo’s Dublin project see: Giancarlo
De Carlo, Proposta per Una Struttura Universitaria (Venezia: Cluva,
1965).
[21] Woods, Remember the Spring of the Old Days?
[22] S. Woods, The Education Super Mart, Avery Drawings &
Archives, S. Woods Archive, Papers collection, Feld Box 08.
[23] A. Tzonis and L. Lefaivre, Beyond Monuments, Beyond
Zip-a-Tone, Into Space/Time, in Free University Berlin: Candilis, Josic, Woods,
Schiedhelm, by Architectural Association, Exemplary Projects 3
(London: AA Publications, 1999).
[24] K. Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History (London: Thames and Hudson, 1980), p.277.
[25] The university models are discussed by De Carlo in the introduction of De Carlo, Pianificazione E Disegno Delle Università.
[26] “A first hypothesis sees città
regione as an indeterminately growing city, which expands as an urban continuum
across a territory […] A second hypothesis considers città regione as an
agglomerate of urban centers each of which, while involved in a common
development process, retains its autonomy […] A third hypothesis sees città
regione as an artifice of forms meant to solve the problems deriving from
congestion. Finally, there is a fourth hypothesis – with which I personally
agree – that sees città regione as dynamic relations substituting for the
static relations proper of the traditional city.” Giancarlo
De Carlo, ‘Relazione Conclusiva al Seminario dell’ILSES Sulla Nuova Dimensione
e La Città-Regione’ (Stresa, 1962); my translation from the Italian.
[27] Among the many texts on De Carlo’s work in Urbino see: Giancarlo De Carlo and Pierluigi Nicolin, Conversation on Urbino, Lotus
International, no. 18 (March 1978): 6–22.
[28] The
original documentation of the Pavia University Plan can be accesses as
Giancarlo De Carlo, Pavia Piano Universitario:
Relazione Generale, 18 February 1974, IUAV Archivio Progetti, Fondo De Carlo,
pro/057.1/18/22, 040550, Venezia. The Plan is discussed by De Carlo in Giancarlo
De Carlo, Un Caso Di Studio: l’Universicittà Di Pavia, Parametro, no.
44 (March 1976): 20–22, and in Un Ruolo Diverso dell’Università: Il Modello
Multipolare per l’Università Di Pavia, in Progettare L’università, by
Giuseppe Rebecchini (Roma: Edizioni Kappa, 1981), 144–51;
[29] For
a discussion of the university as a continuous cycle of de-territorialisation
and re-territorialisation see Gerald Raunig, Factories of Knowledge.
Industries of Creativity (Los Angeles: Semiotext (e), 2013).
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Francesco Zuddas (PhD, MA) is Senior Lecturer at the Leeds School of Architecture and Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins in London. He studied architecture, engineering and urbanism at the University of Cagliari, where he also taught between 2009-2015, and at the Architectural Association. His Ph.D. thesis “The University as Settlement Principle” investigated the space of the university as a critical testing ground for an idea of the city.