95850 - History of Contemporary City and Landscape

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Architecture and Creative Practices for the City and Landscape (cod. 5809)

Learning outcomes

Once completed the course, the student has acquired the ability to recognize the testimonial and socio-cultural value of architectural elements and urban contexts. In particular, the student is able to: - document the reasons and the potential for transformation compliant with their protection - envisage transformative scenarios considering the evolution of relationships, communications, productive streams in several areas.

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 MIRO

Teaching methods

Ex-cathedra lectures.

Exercise in critical reading of architecture and the city.

Study Trips.

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 MIRO.

Teaching tools

miro.com/it/

(registration is free for Unibo students)

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Leoni