Department:

History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation

Course Leader:

lect. Liliana Cazacu

Learning outcomes:

Familiarize students with methods of analyzing and using information provided by cartographic documents in order to understand the evolutionary process of urban historical areas protected tissue, so the possible interventions would ensure the preservation and enhancement of cultural heritage and development consistent.

Content:

Vocabulary. Operational cartographic research purpose.
Characteristics of cartographic documents. Classification and inventory for the investigation.
Documents relating to the Bucharest and Sibiu map (Disclosure and Presentation).
Ways of dealing with the mapping studies and documents:
Role of cartographic research information provided to substantiate the urban interventions (case studies):
Illustrations of how to obtain and use information contained in cartographic documents (case studies)
Cartographic research methods (case studies):
Practical exercises:
Theme 1 - Using research methods that were previously studied to analyse historic maps.
Theme 2 - Analysis of the layers of urban fabric in historic and current maps.
Theme 3 - Using the comparative method to asses the historical evolution of an urban historic area.

Teaching Method:

Lectures with the presentation of images (photos, plans etc.).
Site visits.

Assessment:

During the semester (discussion on the issues raised).
Development and support (oral presentation) practical work, drawing plans elaborated in teams of students and written part individually.

Bibliography:

Publications, articles, studies and unpublished; Historical and current plans and guides the city of Sibiu; publications on the history of Sibiu and Transylvania; papers on the operationality of the cartographic documents.
Larry WOLFF, Inventing Eastern Europe. The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment, Stanford University Press, Stanford California, 1994
Denis WOOD, The power of maps, New York, Guilford Press, 1992
Denis WOOD, Everything sings (http://globalurbanhumanities.berkeley.edu/uploads/Introduction_Everything_Sings.pdf)
Leonard VARTIC, Limbaj cartografic, UTPres, Cluj-Napoca, 2020
Antoine PICON and Carlo RATTI, Atlas of the Senseable City, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2023
Andrei NACU, Scaunele săsești în documente cartografice din secolele XVI–XVIII. București: Editura Academiei Române, 2020