- Docente: Giovanni Leoni
- Credits: 6
- SSD: CEAR-11/A
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Blended Learning
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Architecture and Creative Practices for the City and Landscape (cod. 6727)
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from Sep 17, 2026 to Dec 18, 2026
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
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Mies van der Rohe: “our place is in the becoming”
- Remembering (with) the body
- Fernando Távora: the organisation of space
- Alvaro Siza: an animal vocation
- Eduardo Souto Moura: (not) being ESM
- Aris Kostantinidis: Necessity and Case
- Carlo Scarpa: architecture as a commentary
- Giovanni Muzio: “The calm and peaceful atmosphere of an old nineteenth-century street”
- Ernesto Nathan Rogers: Anonymous 20th Century
- Aldo Rossi: Forgetting Architecture
Readings/Bibliography
Bibliographic references and related materials will be provided lesson by lesson on VirtualLearning
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
Office hours
See the website of Giovanni Leoni