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PresentationThe Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Bari is theonly Architecture School in Italy to organise studies ofArchitecture exclusively over five years and with annualorganization of courses. From the Academic Year 2005-2006the Faculty accompanies the “general” curriculum of theDegree Course in Architecture with the “classical” curriculum,proposing a course, which while inspired by a tradition ofstudies consolidated in the Germanic world between theNineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, has no actualcomparison in the international panorama of the Faculties ofArchitecture.The Degree in architecture through the classical curriculumThe classical curriculum is aimed not only at the training of aprofessional figure that integrates the basic knowledge of thearchitect, as defined by recent national and Europeandirectives, with specific knowledge in the area of the ancientworld, historic, archaeological and methodological incharacter; but also–more in general– to re-propose the figureof the ‘cultivated ’architect, substantially against the trend ofthe current training programmes, paying ever more attentionto the ephemeral daily ferment and showing ever lessinterest in organic cultural training.ObjectivesThe objective of the classical curriculum is the creation of aprofessional figure, absent in the Italian academic panorama,that can be defined as an ‘architect-archaeologist’.This term, in fact, renders very well image of architects whosegood knowledge of the historic and archaeological aspects ofthe ancient world, together with direct contact witharchitecture derived from active participation in survey andexcavation campaigns, allow them to intervene withawareness of the archaeological and monumental heritage,accompanying and integrating with the competence of thearchaeologists with whom they will be called on tocollaborate, in terms of knowledge and conservation as wellas planning the infrastructure and the areas.A collateral objective, but by no means less relevant, is thatof restoring to the figure of the architect that baggage ofhumanistic knowledge, in addition to the technical-scientificand operative, in order to elevate him or her above themerely technical-professional figure that even today, in thebest of cases, seems to be the ultimate objective of universitytraining.Professional opportunitiesThe extreme wealth of the archaeological heritage of ourcountry and the relevance that it assumes in the generaleconomic picture determine a great need for adequateinterlocutors in the organisations involved in its safeguardingin Italy. The creation of a professional figure prepared toconfront the specific problems of the ancient world istherefore widely welcome. At the same time, training in theenvironment of the classic area guarantees the acquisition ofthe cognitions necessary to operate, at the level of thetraditional architect, In the different particular sectors of thediscipline without penalising in any way access to the usualprofessional opportunities.InternationalisationThe wealth of the national archaeological heritage in Italyfinds comparison in many other Mediterranean countries,first among these Greece and Turkey, but also Cyprus, Syria,Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Spain,France, Albania, Romania. Therefore the problems faced bythe organisations involved in the conservation ofarchaeological and monumental heritage are similar.No differently to Italy, none of these countries cited has beenable to or wanted to train a suitable professional figure tointervene in the specific sector of antiquity. In this sense theclassic curriculum, because of the unique nature of thetraining process proposed, aims to become a point ofreference also beyond the national training framework,predisposed at an institutional level, to welcome and traingroups of foreign students.Specific training of the architect -archaeologist- reconstitution of a comprehensive culture of the ancient(courses in history, history of ancient art, archaeology)- re-composition of the organic nature of the humanisticscientifictraining of the architect (courses in the history ofarchaeology and the science of antiquity, restructuring of thebasic scientific disciplines)- recovery of specific skills i the sector of representation (freesketching, life drawing and manual surveying that are thetools of the analysis of architecture)- knowledge and mastery of new technologies (instrumentalmeasuring systems, representation and modelling, nondestructive survey methodologies)- acquisition of archaeological investigation methodology andthe sciences applied to archaeology as tools for analyticalknowledge of the ancient (archaeological research methodology,archaeometry, geology, environmental analysis methodology)- study of architecture through direct contact with ancientbuildings (study trips integrated with observation and lifedrawing)- work experience and field activities (participation inexcavation and survey campaigns integrated with surveydocumentation, and the consequent reading andinterpretation of architecture)Archaeological missionsCurrently the Faculty is involved in various survey and studymissions of ancient monuments in diverse areas of theMediterranean, including Taranto and Crotone in the South ofItaly, Kos and Gortina on Crete in Greece, Leptis Magna inLibya and Althiburos in Tunisia.The new curriculum will naturally be able to benefit from theresearch activities already underway or soon to be started:- Crotone, Sanctuary of Hera Lacinia in Capo Colonna.- Taranto, site of Torre Saturo- Kos, archaeological area of the ‘Walled City’.- Gortina in Crete, the area of the ‘Praetorium’- Leptis Magna, area of the Old Forum.- Althiburos, the Roman theatre.