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 in Italy and Portugal.

The course is organized in 12 modules.

Module I

Architecture in memory of racial and political deportation in Italy: BBPR

Anonymous (20th Century):: Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Leonardo Ricci, Gabetti & Isola and the debate about Neoliberty

 

Module II

Architecture in Milano during the post war culture. The Triennale and protagonists between continuity and renewal

Reviews 

Visit in Milano and at the exhibition Comunità Italia. Architettura, città e paesaggio dal dopoguerra al Duemila

 

Module III

Museum, monument, memory: Carlo Scarpa

History, autobiography, time: Aldo Rossi

 

Module IV

Visit in Verona or Ferrara

Seminar: Reconstruction of the critique - Critique of the reconstruction

 

Module V

Seminar: Architecture in Emilia Romagna during the post war culture

Piero Bottoni in Ferrara

Reviews

 

Module VI

Seminar: Reconstruction of the critique - Critique of the reconstruction

 

Module VII

Architecture in Firenze, Roma, Napoli during the post war culture

History, restoration and design during the eighties

 

Module VIII

Reviews

 

Module IX

Portuguese architecture during the post war period

 

Module X

Portuguese architecture during the post war period

 

Module IX

Reviews

 

Module XII

Final seminar with evaluation of exercises

Readings/Bibliography

Required general bibliography:

M. Tafuri, Storia della architettura italiana 1944 1985, Einaudi, Torino 2002

F. Dal Co (a cura di), Storia dell'architettura italiana. Il secondo Novecento, Electa, Milano 1997

M. Biraghi, A. Ferlenga, Comunità Italia. Architettura/Città/Paesaggio 1945-2000, Silvana, Milano 2015

A. Esposito, G. Leoni, Fernando Távora. Opera completa, Electa, Milano 2005

K. Frempton, Alvaro Siza. Tutte le opere, Electa, Milano 2005

A. Esposito, G. Leoni, Eduardo Souto de Moura. Tutte le opere, Electa, Milano 2012

Other bibliographical references will be indicated at the end of each lesson.

Assessment methods

To take the exam are mandatory two exercises:
1. Analysis of a building with graphic restitution (chosen in the list provided by teachers). The analysis can be performed individually or in groups of three students. The building must be visited. The guidelines are: the history, the historical and cultural themes, design themes, construction and materials aspects. The expected result of the exercise is a table in free form, an essay and a chart on the form provided. The preparation of the table will be conducted in the classroom, under the guidance of teachers.

2. Reading and analysis of an architectural book (chosen in a list provided by teachers). The analysis must be conducted individually. The expected result of the exercise is a short essay and a chart based on the form provided. The preparation of the table will be conducted in the classroom, under the guidance of teachers.

Built work and book should be placed in relation through a third elaborate: a conceptual scheme in free form summarizing the two readings.

The approval of the exercises (table and essay) is preliminary to the final examination and will take place during the final seminar.
The exam consists of a discussion on the issues of the lessons and of the general and specific bibliographies.
The student must take to the exam: the conceptual scheme, the two exercises signed for approval by teachers, a notebook with the drawings of significant architectures illustrated during the course and the timelines related to the temporal program.

For students who have attended the course in previous years, the exam must to be prepared on:
W.J.R. Curtis, L’architettura moderna del Novecento, Mondadori, Milano 1999, parti 3 e 4
J.M. Montaner, Dopo il movimento moderno. L'architettura della seconda metà del Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1996
M. Tafuri, Storia della architettura italiana 1944 1985, Einaudi, Torino 2002
F. Dal Co (a cura di), Storia dell'architettura italiana. Il secondo Novecento, Electa, Milano 1997

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Leoni

See the website of Matteo Cassani Simonetti