30945 - History of Architecture T

Learning outcomes

The course aims to trace a broad overview of the history of architecture, comparing the architectural theories and the structural building practices, developing the critical skills and historical knowledge of the architecture of the buildings.

Course contents

The teaching of "History of Architecture-T" is divided into a double and synergistic program, both didactic, both research census architectural heritage. The "educational" program - with the help of the manual and selected with the help of special monographic lectures - is intended to bring to light the close interaction between the historical development of the techniques (materials and technologies) building and the unraveling of the "narrative history "of the architectural discipline.

1) The first trial focuses on written paper (produced by each student) inherent in the first volume of the course: P. Nuttgens, “History of Architecture”.

- A finding of a study suited text, checking the capacity of the individual candidates to manipulate the content of the same manual - both from the point of view of "quantity" (the volume of the activated information in the text), both from the point of view "qualitative" (punctuality historiography used to interpret the volume in question) -, it will go through the development of a dedicated alphanumeric processed.
- Synthetic analytical cards, dedicated to all the chapters that make up the text, organized in the following two sections:

i) 5 keywords that identify the content of each chapter in question;

ii) development of a synthetic abstract (max. 1500 to 2000 characters, including spaces) of the same chapter, in the sequence of the manual, and may be accompanied by additional illustrations of the topics, found from other sources.

2) The second examination involves the development a monographic dossier containing the personal reflections of the candidate on the theme taken from the second volume of the course.
From the beginning the academic reference, each student is obliged (directly or by proxy) to randomly select - from a list specially prepared by the examination, based on the index of the text of D. Watkin , "History of Western Architecture" - the topic that will be the subject of part of the exam.

Readings/Bibliography

With different objectives highlighted above, these are the texts that make up the bibliography required for the exam development:
- Nuttgens, Patrick, “History of Architecture”, Milan, Bruno Mondadori (available in several editions), for the development of the first elaborated alphanumeric;
- Watkin, David, “History of Western Architecture”, Bologna, Zanichelli (available in several editions), for the study through a specific thesis, the selected monographic core.

Teaching methods

Mount-total hours of lectures will be inclusive of appropriate lessons "monographs" (comment by a special visual repertory), intended to illustrate exemplarily the close relationship between the history of architecture and the historical development of its construction techniques. The lectures, therefore, will be allocated exclusively to this focused educational offer, leaving the task to each individual student, to independently meet (under the control and guidance of the teacher), both part of its contents, both it’s the deepening of a monographic theme inherent in the second budgeted volume.

Assessment methods

The exam will be developed and supported in oral form, and divided into three questions:
1) a topic of Nuttgens selected directly by the candidate;
2) an argument of the same selected manually instead of by the Commission;
3) the development of the subject selected from the monographic Watkin.

Teaching tools

In addition the information provided in the repertoire program course, the lessons will be dedicated to:

i) an in-depth presentation of the joint and the objectives of the course;

ii) a statement of the fundamental "research tools" of the discipline, theory and practice;

iii) optimizing shared diagnostic tools for a survey program monograph on the history of architecture and its construction techniques;

iv) the development of monographic Educational Workshops, dedicated to examining a specific disciplinary issues.

Links to further information

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/piergiorg.massaretti/didattica/programma/2015/326939

Office hours

See the website of Pier Giorgio Massaretti

See the website of Maria Beatrice Bettazzi