- Docente: Silvia Berselli
- Credits: 8
- SSD: ICAR/18
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Silvia Berselli (Modulo 1) Matteo Sintini (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Architecture (cod. 0881)
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 XXth century, therefore place them in the right geographic and urban context and knowing the main costruction features.
In particular, students will be able to: - do a bibliographical research - carry out a critical path of historical studies - recognize the main forms systems - describe and comment, in oral and written form, an architecture belonging to the historical time studied in the course
Course contents
PART 1 - BETWEEN EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY - QUESTIONS OF STYLE AND SHAPE
Introduction. Questions of style, structure, decoration, shape
Giovan Battista Piranesi
Revolutionary architects in France. Etienne-Louis Boullée. Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
The neo-Palladianism in England and USA. John Soane and Thomas Jefferson
Germany between neo-gothic and neo-classical. Karl Friederich Schinkel. Leo von Klenze
PART 2 - ECLECTICISM, NEW TECHNIQUES AND URBAN RENEWAL IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
London, Paris and Barcelona during the nineteenth century
New urban visions: the utopian socialism
Neoclassicism in Italy: Piermarini and Milan. Valadier and Rome
Eclecticism - historicism. Definitions and Italian specificities
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, John Ruskin. Gottfried Semper and Wien
Iron and glass architecture in England. The Crystal Palace
Iron and glass architecture in France
The Chicago School and the origins of the skyscraper
PART 3 - APPLIED ART AND INDUSTRY BETWEEN NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY
Arts and Crafts Movement. William Morris. Hermann Muthesius
Art Nouveau in Belgium and France: Victor Horta, Henry van de Velde, Hector Guimard
Wien - from the Ringstrasse to the Secession. Otto Wagner. Joseph Maria Olbrich
Wien - from Art Nouveau to the ornament condemnation. Josef Hoffmann. Adolf Loos
The Catalan Modernism and Antoni Gaudí
The Liberty Style in Italy
PART 4 - TWENTIETH CENTURY - AVANT-GARDE ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Expressionism and Dadaism
Futurism and Constructivism
Cubism and De Stijl
PART 5 - THE MASTERS
Deutsche Werkbund. Peter Behrens
Walter Gropius
Hendrik Petrus Berlage and the Amsterdam School
Tony Garnier and Auguste Perret
Frank Lloyd Wright
Le Corbusier
Outside the Modern Movement
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
CIAM (1928-1959) and International Style
Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto
Louis I. Kahn
PART 6 - ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY
Classicism and rationalism in Italy in the ’20s and ’30s.
Architecture under the regime. Marcello Piacentini and Giuseppe Terragni.
Edoardo Persico and Giuseppe Pagano
The reconstruction of Italy after the Second World War
Tradition and environmental preesistence
PART 7 - AFTER THE MODERN MOVEMENT
Modernity in crisis. Prototypes and models for the reconstruction in Europe.
Radical architectures and Megastructures.
Italy on the large scale, from Superstudio to the Corviale
Engineering and Industry: Richard Buckminster Fuller and Jean Prouvé
Engineering and Industry in Italy: Pier Luigi Nervi
The end of the utopias: Venturi-Scott Brown. Rem Koolhaas
Contemporary panorama
Readings/Bibliography
For the examination of the course of History of Architecture II, the student has the pdf of the lessons and the bibliography indicated below. It is also recommended to supplement this bibliography using the main architectural monographs available at the library.
- 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)
For any further question, please contact the professors by email.
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars.
Assessment methods
1. Oral exam
The exam consists of an interview on the totality of the topics of the lessons and contents of the bibliography. On examination, the student is required to know how to draw an explanatory sketch (plan, elevation, section, details, etc...) of the main architectures presented in class.
2. Exercise
During the academic year, students are required to produce a script, choosing between two modes: the essay (2.1) or the re-drawing notebook (2.2). Professors will verify the exercises during some classroom reviews and will evaluate it during the oral exam.
2.1 Critical essay
Students will produce a critical text about an architecture, an architect, a book, or other theme chosen by the student and agreed in advance with the teachers. The article should be accompanied by images and their captions and a selected bibliography.
2.2 Carnet of hand drawings
It requires the student to produce a notebook presenting a graphic re-reading, accompanied by written notes and legends, of some of the main architectures presented in class. During the days of classroom overhaul and oral exams, the student should bring his own notebook of re-drawings.
Teaching tools
Students will receive the images projected during the lessons in pdf format.
Office hours
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