93690 - STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA M

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is able to recognise, historically place and critically evaluate the major architectures of the contemporary period, from the 1920s to housing, knowing the main construction aspects and having the ability to place them in the city and the territory in which they are located. In particular, the student is able to - carry out archival research - carry out bibliographical research - critically structure a course of historical studies - recognise the main systems of forms in relation to the said historical period - describe and comment, in verbal and written form, on architecture belonging to the said historical period.

Course contents

The course aims to examine the activities of some of the most emblematic protagonists and projects of Italian and international architecture and engineering of the 20th and 21st centuries.

MODULE 1. Bologna, Italy and Europe
The Bologna School of Engineering: from Attilio Muggia to Pier Luigi Nervi. Glauco Gresleri and architecture in Bologna in the second half of the 20th century. The New Churches Office and the "Città Nuova" architects and town planners group.

MODULE 2. Living the 20th century
Italy and the activities of the Istituto Case Popolari in the early 20th century. Gio Ponti and the Italian-style house. Reconstruction after the Second World War and the INA-Casa plan. The masters of the second half of the 20th century (Mario Ridolfi, Bbpr, Ignazio Gardella and Giancarlo De Carlo).
Social housing in Europe in the second half of the 20th century: France, from Le Corbusier to the epigones. English cities and the role of the masters: James Sterling and Ralph Erskine. The Nordic countries: the house, the neighbourhood and the city.
The United States: the 'Case Study Houses' and the contribution of the European masters.

MODULE 3. Italian and international engineering
Architecture or engineering? A possible dialogue. Some episodes of the activity of Pier Luigi Nervi, Giulio Krall, Riccardo Morandi, Silvano Zorzi and Sergio Musmeci.
Stylistic and technical evolution of the main structural and architectural themes during the 20th century: the skyscraper, the bridge and the great light.

MODULE 4. The new millennium
The new design challenges and the image of the city of tomorrow. Interventions on an urban scale in Italy, Europe and the world. Company towns today.

Readings/Bibliography

Bruno Zevi, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Einaudi, Torino 1950

Sigfried Giedion, Spazio tempo e architettura. Lo sviluppo di una nuova tradizione, Hoepli, Milano 1954

Eduardo Torroja, La concezione strutturale. Logica ed intuito nella ideazione delle forme, Unione tipografica - Editrice torinese, Torino 1966

Francesco Dal Co (a cura di), Storia dell'architettura italiana. Il secondo Novecento, Milano, Electa 1997

William J.R. Curtis, L’architettura moderna dal 1900, Phaidon, Londra 2006

Kenneth Frampton, Tettonica e architettura. Poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo, Skira, Milano 2005

 

Other texts will be pointed out and made available at the end of each lesson.

Teaching methods

Lectures, monographic seminars and an exercise to be completed by the end of the course.

Assessment methods

Verification of acquired knowledge will take place by means of an oral examination on the syllabus and evaluation of the annual exercise.

Teaching tools

All course materials will be available on the 'virtual.unibo' platform.

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Bellucci