B4953 - STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA T-2 CON LABORATORIO

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will have a historical and critical understanding of the main developments in architecture from the origins of modern architecture to current architectural trends, as well as knowledge of the key events in 20th-century art.

Course contents

The course aims to introduce students to contemporary Italian and international architecture through the study of significant works, personalities and issues. It will cover a period from the mid-19th century to the present day, taking into consideration both urban and architectural design, focusing on the analysis of key themes such as the truth and nature of materials, the role and forms of structure and its relationship with space and ornamentation. The experiences of the masters of architecture will be analysed, examining not only architectural images and drawings, but also theoretical texts and references, even those outside the specific discipline, which help to reconstruct the history of architecture in the chronological period considered.

The main tools of historical research will be illustrated and presented in a simplified form to students, who will then be able to use and dispose of them.

The study of different architectural experiences will allow students to engage with a series of issues that may inspire personal research projects. Students will thus acquire a basic knowledge of the main themes, architects, architectural languages and architectures that have characterised the history of contemporary architecture. They will also be able to apply the methods of historical-critical analysis of architecture to specific contexts, presenting the results of these analyses by identifying the structuring characteristics of the contexts on the basis of their physical, socio-cultural and aesthetic-perceptual connotations, as well as their preservation needs and potential for enhancement.

Program:


MODULE 2 (Dr Ilaria Cattabriga)

PART 1 -. The use of historicised languages

Technical transformations: structural engineering (1775-1939)

Eclecticism and Historicism;

The idea of modern architecture in the 19th century

PART 2 – History, design and restoration

Structural rationalism: from Viollet Le Duc to Art Nouveau

Italy: Camillo Boito and Gustavo Giovannoni

PART 3 – Architecture and technique, structure and ornamentation

Gottfried Semper and the principle of cladding

Crystal Palace and Eiffel Tower

The Chicago School and the origins of the skyscraper

Walter Gropius and Bauhaus


PART 4: Applied art and domestic architecture

Joseph Maria Olbrich and Joseph Hoffmann

Arts and Crafts, William Morris and John Ruskin

Deutsche Werkbund

PART 5: Lessons from the masters

Le Corbusier

Frank Lloyd Wright

Louis I. Kahn;

PART 6: From Italian Rationalism to Megastructures: Architecture and Cities in the 20th Century

Italian Rationalism;

Reconstruction in Italy

“Building communities”: Adriano Olivetti, Danilo Dolci, Carlo Doglio

Carlo Scarpa

Gio Ponti

“Mega-year” (1964) and visions of the city of the future: definition of megastructure, Metabolism, Archigram

 

MODULE 1 (Prof. Giovanni Leoni)

The paradigm of the Anonymous

1. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Anonimous vs Modernism

2. Architectures remembering the Shoah:an anonymus memory

3. Aris Kostantinidis: necessity and chance

4. Fernando Távora:the organization of space

5. Alvaro Siza:an animal vocation

6. Ernesto Nathan Rogers: Anonymous of the XX century

7. Leonardo Ricci: Anonymous of the XX century

8. Aldo Rossi: forgetting architecture

9. Eduardo Souto Moura: (not) being ESM

10. David Chipperfield: theoretical practice

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliographic references and related materials will be provided lesson by lesson on VIRTUALE.

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Practical exercises in reading architectural structures in terms of their formal and constructive components.

Guided tours to learn about architecture in situ.

Monographic seminars on topics chosen by the lecturer and related to the course content.

Assessment methods

The exercises will be assessed throughout the year and will contribute to the final mark.

The final exam will consist of an interview aimed at assessing the knowledge of what has been covered in class and what is contained in the bibliographic materials uploaded on VIRTUALE.

Teaching tools

virtuale.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Leoni

See the website of Ilaria Cattabriga