95847 - HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE

Learning outcomes

Once completed the course, the student knows how to apply the methods for the historical-critical analysis of architecture and the city and he/she knows how to apply them to specific contexts, returning the results of these analyses by identifying the structuring characteristics of the contexts according to the physical, socio-cultural, aesthetic-perceptive connotation, as well as the needs for protection and the potential for enhancement.

Course contents

The Anonymous Paradigm

1. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Anonymous vs. Modernism

2. Architecture in Memory of the Shoah: An Anonymous remembrance

3. Aris Kostantinidis: Necessity and Case

4. Fernando Távora: the organisation of space

5. Alvaro Siza: an animal vocation

6. Ernesto Nathan Rogers: Anonymous 20th Century

7. Leonardo Ricci: Anonymous 20th Century

8. Carlo Scarpa: Architecture in the Form of Commentary

9. Aldo Rossi: Forgetting Architecture

10. Eduardo Souto Moura: (not) being ESM

11. David Chipperfield: theoretical practice

Readings/Bibliography

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

Teaching methods

Ex-cathedra lectures.

Exercise in critical reading of architecture and the city.

Assessment methods

The exercises will be assessed during the year and will contribute to the final grade.
The final examination will consist of an interview aimed at verifying knowledge of what was presented in the classroom and what is contained in the bibliographical materials deposited on VIRTUAL.

Teaching tools

virtuale.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Leoni