70464 - History of Architecture 2

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will be able to recognize, place historically and do a critical valuation of major architectures of the modern and contemporary era, from XVIIIth century to the Thirty of XXth century, therefore place them in the right geographic and urban context and knowing the main costruction features.

In particulary, students will be able to:

-   do a bibliographical research

-   structuring a critical path of historical studies

-   recognize the main forms systems of the historical time

-   describe and comment, in oral and written form, an architecture belonging to the historical time studied in the course

Course contents

FIRST SEMESTER 

Introduction

 

A) THE PROBLEM OF THE STYLE IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY 

Guarino Guarini (1624 -1683) e Filippo Juvarra (1678-1736)

Giovan Battista Piranesi (1720-1778).

Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799). Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806)

John Soane (1753-1837) e Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Karl Friederich Schinkel (1781-1841). Leo von Klenze (1748-1864)

 

 

B) THE ARCHITECTURE OF ECLETiCISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY - STYLE AND TECNIQUE

Italy between neomedievalism, neoclassicism and other styles

John Ruskin (1819-1900) Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) Camillo Boito (1836-1914)

London, Paris and Barcellona in the nineteenth century

Architecture in iron and glass in England and France. The Crystal Palace (1851) in London and Henri Labrouste in Paris (1801-1875)

The Chicago School 

Gottfried Semper (1803-1879)

 

 

C) APPLIED ART AND DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY 

Arts and Crafts Movement. William Morris (1834-1896). Hermann Muthesius (1861-1927)

Art Nouveau 

The Secession: Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908). Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) 

Modernism and Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926)

Otto Wagner (1841-1918) and Adolf Loos (1870-1933)

 

 

D) INDUSTRY AND TECHNIQUE IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY 

Deutscher Werkbund. Peter Behrens (1868-1940)

Walter Gropius (1883-1969) and the Bauhaus School

 

 

E) AVANTGARDES

Expressionism and Dadaism 

Futurism and Constructivism

Cubism and De Stijl

 

 

SECOND SEMESTER

F) THE MASTERS

Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934) and the Amsterdam School

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) - first part

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) - second part

Auguste Perret (1874-1954) and Tony Garnier (1869-1948)

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) -first part

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) -second part

Walter Gropius (1883-1969)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)

Asplund e Alvar Aalto (1898-1976)

Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974)

 

 

G) INTERNATIONALIZATION: NETWORK AND REPRESENTATION 

CIAM (1928-1959) and International Style

World's Fair

 

 

H) ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY

Classicism and rationalism in Italy in the ’20s and ’30s

Architecture under the regime

Giuseppe Pagano (1896-1945) and Giuseppe Terragni (1904-1943)

Rationalism in Italy

 

 

I) AFTER MODERN MOVEMENT

Continuity. Modernity and tradition in Italy .    

(neo)realism in Italy

Realism and tradition: Spain, Portugal, England

From CIAM to Team X

Luigi Moretti (1906-1973) – Giovanni Michelucci (1891-1990)

Industry and Engeneering in Italy - Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979)

Architecture and the city. Italy in the ’60s and ‘70s

Architecture and the city: Collage, macrostructure, and utopia

 

Professors Elisa Alessandrini (leader of the course) and Matteo Sintini will alternate in class. 

Readings/Bibliography

To stand the exam History of Architecture II (2014-2015 academic year), you need to get the pdf lectures and study the following bibliography:

 

•  Leonardo Benevolo, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2001, capp. I-VII, pp. 11-232 (incluso il capitolo “La cultura architettonica in America”)
• Marco Biraghi, Storia dell’architettura contemporanea I 1750-1945,Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2008

• Marco Biraghi, Storia dell’architettura contemporanea II 1945-2008, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2008, Vol. 2 capp. IV, V, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII

• William J.R. Curtis, L'architettura moderna dal 1900, Mondadori, Milano 1999 (I ed. Phaidon, London 1982), capp. I-XXV e XXVIII

• Luciano Patetta, L'architettura dell'eclettismo, Mazzotta, Milano 1975, pp. 9-39, 217-244, 260-310 (ovvero i capitoli: Prime influenze della poetica del Pittoresco; Neogotico e Rundbogenstil in Germania; La tendenza medievalista in Italia)

Write an email to professor Elisa Alessandrini if you need English books or less credits : elisa.alessandrini4@unibo.it

Teaching methods

Assessment methods

To take the exam, which consists of an oral interview, you have to know all the topics covered in the lectures and study accurately the bibliography.  Each PDF lectures will be made available for the images and for further optional bibliography.  

You need also to compile a carnet of sketches and notes for the exams. For the list of buildings write an email to the professor. 

For the students who attended the 2012-2013 or 2013-1014 academic year, the program will be that of their class.  
For the students who have attended History of Architecture 2 in the previous academic years (before 2012-2013) this is the bibliography:  

- Giorgio Ciucci, Gli architetti e il fascismo. Architettura e città 1922-1944, Einaudi, Torino 2002

- Giovanna Curcio, Elisabeth Kievin (a cura di), Storia dell'architettura italiana. Il Settecento, Electa, Milano 2000, [pp. 380-423, 516-39; voll. II, pp. 580-613]

- William J.R. Curtis, Architettura moderna del 1900, Phaidon, Londra 2006 [capp. da 1 a 21 e cap. 28]

- Henry-Russell Hitchcock, L'architettura dell'Ottocento e del Novecento, introduzione di P. Scrivano, Edizioni di Comunità, Torino 2000 [Parte 1 = tutta; Parte 2 = capp. VIII e X e da XIII a XV; Parte 3 = capp. da XVI a XXII]

- Emil Kaufmann, L'architettura dell'Illuminismo, Giulio Einaudi, Torino 1966 e 1991, [cap. XI e XII in particolare le pp. 149-69; 175-76; 194-200; 254-61]

For these students, PDF lectures are available for the images. 

Teaching tools

There will be field trips, not mandatory, that will be organized on Saturday or Sunday, along with the professors of the course.  

Office hours

See the website of Elisa Alessandrini

See the website of Matteo Sintini