81925 - History of Contemporary City

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Moduli: Giovanni Leoni (Modulo 1) Micaela Antonucci (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Advanced Design (cod. 9256)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide knowledge about the history of the contemporary city and the actors involved in its transformation. The course explains design actions conceived outside the specialist disciplines of the project - economic, technological, social, cultural ones - and circumstantial events in which non-specialist actors, acting, transform the physical space. At the end of the course the students: know the discussion of the history of the image of the city; use knowledge focused on reality; exploit and consolidate their knowledge and references to the figurative arts, cinema, literature, as a means of understanding the reality of the territory and of living in it; read and critically analyze complex urban places.

Course contents

City forms and urban processes

MODULE I (Prof. Giovanni Leoni)

  1. Formal-city, action-city
  2. Remembering (with) the Body: Memorial Post-War Architecture
  3. The Anonymous in the City: Ernesto N. Rogers
  4. The Anonymous in the City: Leonardo Ricci
  5. SEMINAR The theme of the Community in Italian Post-War Architecture
  6. SEMINAR The theme of the Community in Italian Post-War Architecture
  7. The organization of space: Fernando Távora
  8. The infraordinary city: Aldo Rossi
  9. Cultural Heritage Gets Political
  10. SEMINAR The theme of the Community in Post-War Architecture: Italy / USA
  11. Exercise: The potential city
  12. Exercise: The potential city

MODULE I (Prof. Micaela Antonucci)

  • SEMINAR The image/s of Bologna between XIX and XXI Century: histories, identities, media
  • SEMINAR Contemporary Rome: architectures and identities between (much) past and (not much) present

Readings/Bibliography

The bibliography will be published on VIRTUALE lesson by lesson.

Teaching methods

Ex-cathedra lessons, critical drawing exercise, study visits.

Assessment methods

Critical drawing and writing exercises will be included in the final rating.

The final evaluation will be based on an interview.

Teaching tools

virtuale.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Leoni

See the website of Micaela Antonucci

SDGs

Industry, innovation and infrastructure Responsible consumption and production

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.