75372 - History of Architectural Processes and Technques M

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student has acquired the concept of evolution of construction techniques and knows how to contextualize the figurative and functional outcomes with respect to technical and socio-economic conditions within which the architectural work has been produced. In particular, at the end of the course the student is able to conduct the analysis of an artifact of historical buildings, to document and return it in the form of criticism.

Course contents

Articulation of base
The course "History of Architecture Processes and Techniques" is organized in a double and synergistic program, both didactic and documentary research.
The "educational" - with the contribution of the selected manual and with the help of special monographic lectures - is intended to bring to light the close interaction between the historical development of techniques (materials and technologies) constructive and the unraveling of the "story history "of the architectural discipline.
The mountain-hour total lectures will be divided as follows:
i) hours of lectures "monographic" (annotated by a special visual repertoire), intended to illustrate exemplarily the close relationship between the history of architecture and the historical development of related construction techniques. Lectures, therefore, will be devoted exclusively to this targeted educational provision, leaving the task to each individual student, to independently meet (under the control and guidance of the teacher) identified the manual required by the program.
ii) hours devoted to the identification and development, shared among all the students of the course, the elaborate monographs that each candidate will have to prepare for the exam.
Joint operational
The single papers, which form an integral part of the discussion in the final oral examination, are the following:
a) A double compilation of the Questionnaire identifier - inbound and outbound - on the basis of the document inserted between the "Teaching Material".
b) Development of a "review" of Reference Manual: a text of 4500-6000 characters, including spaces, explaining briefly the work of study product and a series of personal assessments on the contents of the same text.
c) Development of a "monographic essay", in presentation slides ("ppt"), on a topic agreed with the teacher (between the "Educational", an evaluation board and disclosure). Every single research topic, inserted into the curriculum done, must present specific characters of originality, both in the development bibliographic and documentary, both in interpretation results achieved. The required documents must be submitted sufficiently in advance to teaching, before the exam, to allow a correct and comprehensive scientific evaluation.

Readings/Bibliography

The following text is the manual required of the course, and the subject of the theoretical section of the exam: Nuttgens, Patrick, History of Architecture, Milan, Bruno Mondadori 2001.

Assessment methods

The examination, exclusively personal, will be the valutation of the three different processed products. In particular, the student will be able to: i) perform a literature search adequate, ii) structural critically rare a path of historical studies; iii) recognize historically the main architectonics languages, back again to its building systems, iv) describe and comment, in verbal and written form, an architecture belonging to the historical period in question.

Teaching tools

Besides the information provided in the program repertoire course, lessons will be dedicated to: i) an in-depth presentation of the joint and the objectives of the course; ii) an explanation of the fundamental "research tools" of the discipline, theoretical and practical; iii) shared the optimization of diagnostic tools for a program of research monograph on the history of architectural and related construction techniques.

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