95847 - HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Architecture and Creative Practices for the City and Landscape (cod. 5809)

Learning outcomes

Once completed the course, the student knows how to apply the methods for the historical-critical analysis of architecture and the city and he/she knows how to apply them to specific contexts, returning the results of these analyses by identifying the structuring characteristics of the contexts according to the physical, socio-cultural, aesthetic-perceptive connotation, as well as the needs for protection and the potential for enhancement.

Course contents

  1. Formal-city, action-city
  2. The Anonymous in the City: Ernesto N. Rogers & Leonardo Ricci
  3. The organization of space: Fernando Távora
  4. The infraordinary city: Aldo Rossi
  5. The theme of the Community in Italian Post-War Architecture
  6. Cultural Heritage Gets Political
  7. Exercise: The potential city

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 examination will consist of an interview designed to test knowledge of what has been presented in the classroom and of the bibliographical materials stored on VIRTUAL.

Teaching tools

virtuale.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Leoni