STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA T-2 CON LABORATORIO 2022/2023

Academic Year 2022/2023

Learning outcomes

To provide a historical-critical knowledge of the main experiences of architecture from the origins of modern architecture to the positions of current architecture; the fundamental episodes of the artistic production of the twentieth century are also dealt with. Elaborations on the History of Architecture are carried out, integrated with teaching in the area of architectural design and restoration.

Course contents

The course will go through the national and international history of architecture dating between the end of the XIX century and today. We will consider cities, architectures and theories to investigate some antinomies that marked and still mark the architectural culture and the professional status of the designer. More specifically:

personality / anonymous
author / work
architecture / technology
history / design
internationalism / cosmopolitism
urban forms / urban processes

Eclecticism, Neoclassicism, National Style

Crisis of Eclecticism and new models of creativity

In search of truth: technique, ornament, order

Towards Modernism

Body and metropolis: the Avant-Garde contribution

Masters of Modernism

Autobiographies of Anonymous Architects I

Architecture in the Fascist era

Post-war Italian Architecture

Autobiographies of Anonymous Architects II

International Post-war architecture

Readings/Bibliography

Ex-cathedra lessons, critical drawing exercise, study visits.

Teaching methods

Ex-cathedra lessons, critical drawing exercise, study visits.

Assessment methods

Critical drawing exercises will be included in the final rating.

The final evaluation will be based on an interview.

Teaching tools

virtuale.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Leoni

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