19495 - History of Architecture 3

Course contents

History and Project

The course is about the relation between historical knowledge and design process in post war architectonic culture. The course is organized in 8 hours modules: one main overview lesson (4 hours), one lesson analysing one work of architecture, built or written (2 hours); one review  of required exercises (2 hours).

 

The student has to complete two required exercises.

The first is an individual analysis of a built work among those presented in the class; the analysis must be based on given documentation and on a visit on site.  Guidelines will be: timeline, design themes, construction and materials. The final result will be a free format panel.

The second is an individual analysis of a written work among those presented in the class. The final result will be a free format poster.

Students must have a notebook (Moleskine 9.14 or similar) to take notes during lessons and visits on site in view of the final elaboration of required exercises.

The final workshop will consist in a discussion – based also on the notebook - on the course's program starting from the exposed exercises and will lead to final grade.

 

 

Module I

Shoah and Architecture in Italy

BBPR, Museo Monumento al Deportato Politico e Razziale, Carpi, 1963 sgg.

Definition of first exercise: analysis of built work

 

Module II

“Occasioni di moderna composizione architettonica negli ambienti storici”

Piero Bottoni, restoration projects, Ferrara

Individual reviews of the first exercise

 

Module III

Museum, monument, memory

Carlo Scarpa, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, 1958 sgg.

Individual reviews of the first exercise

 

Module IV

A living preservation of the existing

Josef Wiedemann, Gliptoteca, Monaco, 1961 sgg.

Individual reviews of the first exercise

 

Module V

Collective reviews of the first exercise

 

Module VI

History and project: Bruno Zevi, Ludovico Quaroni, Manfredo Tafuri

Anonymous (20th Century): Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Leonardo Ricci

Definition of second exercise: analysis of written work

 

Module VII

History, autobiography, time: Aldo Rossi

Individual reviews of the second exercise

 

Module VIII

The magisterium of constants

Fernando Tavora, Pousada Santa Marinha, Guimarães, 1972 sgg.

Individual reviews of the second exercise

 

Module IX

From the taste for the ruins to the rule of the monument

Eduardo Souto Moura, Pousada Santa Maria do Bouro, Amarès 1989 sgg.

 

Settimana X

Individual reviews of the second exercise

 

Module XI

Restoration and design

Massimo e Gabriella Carmassi, Complesso della Pelanda dei Suini, Roma, 2005 sgg.

Individual reviews of the second exercise

 

Module XII

Collective reviews of the second exercise

Final workshop

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliography and archival documents will be given lesson by lesson

Teaching methods

Ex cathedra lessons
Study visits on site
Analysis of built and written works with graphic exercises

Assessment methods

Final workshop - exhibition of graphic exercises and discussion - will lead to grades

Teaching tools

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Links to further information

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Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Leoni