- Docente: Ilaria Cattabriga
- Credits: 4
- SSD: ICAR/18
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Building Engineering -Architecture (cod. 5697)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will have acquired an in-depth knowledge on historical tecniques and building characters. The acquaintance with the practicality of the workshop will be also referred to the laws regulating the structural reasons and the constructive feasibility of the technical solutions, within the frame of the wider knowledge in the history of construction.
Course contents
Introduction, bibliography, exams
Functions and tools of "MIRO", a useful tool to develop and think timelines and mindmaps
The origins of reinforced concrete
Structural models: weighed, loaded, anthropomorphic
Le Corbusier
Michelucci: the church and the highway
Leonardo Ricci and Riccardo Morandi: studies on livable macrostructures
Italy made of bridges and infrastructures
The Crisis of modernity: From the CIAM IX to the New Brutalism
Imagining the future: new materials and forms. Radical architectures
Bold structures: Arup, Gehry and Hadid
New structures in the Americas: USA, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil
Concrete forms: contemporary evolutions of structural reinforced concrete
Renzo Piano
Readings/Bibliography
At the end of each lecture the teacher will provide a thematic bibliography, which will be published on the website of the course.
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures, seminars.
Assessment methods
Oral Exam
Teaching tools
All the materials shown during the lectures will be uploaded on the website in pdf format.
Office hours
See the website of Ilaria Cattabriga