90629 - Theories and Practices of Art and Architecture (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will have acquired the necessary knowledge to critically interpret the creative processes common to contemporary art and architecture. In particular, they will develop the methodological tools and skills necessary for the historical-critical understanding of the different aspects that characterize artistic and architectonic works and their political and cultural background.

Course contents

CREATIVE PROCESSES, CULTURAL VISIONS AND MATERIALS OF ARCHITECTURE AND ART

The course aims to deepen the architectural and artistic experiences, carried out from the second half of the twentieth century until today, in which creative processes and cultural visions common to the different disciplines are used for the genesis of contemporary languages.

The aims of the course are: to reconstruct the experiences of those artists who have been able to outline a horizon of specific research on architecture; to study the ways in which artists have interpreted individual architectural elements (from column, to window); to evaluate their critical position towards certain architectural manifestations; to examine their interpretations of the concepts of space and structure; to analyse how artists have been able to manipulate the materials used in architecture. The most significant experiments carried out by architects who have tried to transform the very logic of the project, introducing solutions inspired by the phenomena of artistic creation are also analyse.

In particular, the following themes are discussed:

• Building products and archaic figures
• Nature and matter
• The concept of structure
• Happening, revolt, liberation and recycling
• Casts of spaces and mnemosyne
• The myth of contemporary ruin
• The fate of rationalist architecture according to artists
• Drawings, collage and architecture

The course are enriched by lectures dedicated to the relationship between art and architecture and the use of collage techniques in architecture (the contents of the lectures will be examined).

Readings/Bibliography

Students not attending and students not attending seminar activities (for seminar activities see the Assessment methods)

Bibliography

Rosellini Anna, Gargiani Roberto, Valori primordiali e ideologici della materia, da Uncini a LeWitt, Roma, Aracne, 2018

Rosellini Anna, Calchi di spazio, mnemosine e rovine, Roma, Aracne, 2019

Rosellini Anna, Isa Genzken. Per una continuità critica dell'architettura moderna, Milano, Postmedia, 2020

One volume to choose from:

Rosellini Anna, a cura di, in collaborazione con Casarini Arianna e Malaspina Roberto Paolo, Collage di carta, Collage digitare: concetti di architettura a confronto, in “piano b. Arti e culture visive”, 2019, n. 4, https://pianob.unibo.it/issue/view/860

Stierli Martino, Montage and the Metropolis. Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space, New Haven, London, Yale University Press, 2018

Recommended Readings

Rosellini Anna, Il était une fois… La statue de la Liberté et les gratte-ciel de New York. Nouvelles freudiennes de Madelon Vriesendorp, in “Matières”, 2019, n. 15, pp. 90-109 

Attending students participating in seminar activities (for seminar activities see the Assessment methods)

Bibliography

Rosellini Anna, Gargiani Roberto, Valori primordiali e ideologici della materia, da Uncini a LeWitt, Roma, Aracne, 2018

Rosellini Anna, Calchi di spazio, mnemosine e rovine, Roma, Aracne, 2019

Rosellini Anna, Isa Genzken. Per una continuità critica dell'architettura moderna, Milano, Postmedia, 2020

Recommended Readings

Rosellini Anna, Il était une fois… La statue de la Liberté et les gratte-ciel de New York. Nouvelles freudiennes de Madelon Vriesendorp, in “Matières”, 2019, n. 15, pp. 90-109

Rosellini Anna, a cura di, in collaborazione con Casarini Arianna e Malaspina Roberto Paolo, Collage di carta, Collage digitare: concetti di architettura a confronto, in “piano b. Arti e culture visive”, 2019, n. 4, https://pianob.unibo.it/issue/view/860

Stierli Martino, Montage and the Metropolis. Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space, New Haven, London, Yale University Press, 2018

Teaching methods

Due to the restrictions imposed by the current health emergency, this teaching activity will be carried out in the following manner Blended 1:

the teacher will carry out part of the course remotely (max 50% of the hours). For a second part of the course, the students will alternate their presence in the classroom according to a schedule of shifts (more detailed information regarding the shifts and about the modalities to get access to the classroom lessons will be provided soon). It will always be possible to connect remotely and follow live lessons held in the classroom via the online platform TEAMS.

The first lessons (from 9 November to 26 November) will be online. Classes in attendance will start on 27 November and end on 14 December.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH DPCM 4/11/2020, THE COURSE WILL BE ENTIRELY ONLINE

Assessment methods

Students not attending
Oral examination.
To pass the oral examination, the student must demonstrate that she or he has acquired a critical knowledge of the topics discussed in the bibliography.

Attending students who do not participate in seminar activities
Oral examination.
In order to pass the oral examination the student must demonstrate that she or he has acquired a critical knowledge of the topics discussed in the course and conferences and a critical knowledge of the bibliography.

Attending students participating in seminar activities

75% of the evaluation:
Oral examination.
In order to pass the oral examination the student must demonstrate that she or he has acquired a critical knowledge of the topics discussed in the course and lectures and a critical knowledge of the bibliography.
25% of the assessment:
Presentation of the in-depth topics, delivery of a written report. The topics to be examined will be chosen from those discussed in the lectures and will be presented during the final examination. The participation in the seminars and the final report will also be evaluated.

During the entire duration of the course, students are required to:

- collect the materials necessary for research

- present periodically the subject analyzed

Materials to be submitted to the final examination

- Presentation of 5 slides containing only images accompanied by captions.

- By 10 January 2020, each student must submit a written report, accompanied by pictures, on the subject studied.

The structure of the report must be divided into:

• Introduction
• Central part (divided into paragraphs, if necessary)
• Bibliography

Editorial rules for the drafting of reports:

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/anna.rosellini/contenuti-utili/b405781e

Evaluation criteria (attending and non-attending students)

1. It will be assessed as excellent the performance of those students achieving an organic vision of the course contents, the use of a proper specific language, the originality of the reflection, as well as the familiarity with the tools for analyzing the art and architecture works.

2. It will be assessed as average the performance of those students showing mostly mechanical or mnemonic knowledge of the subject, not articulated synthesis and analysis capabilities, a correct but not always appropriate language, as well as a scholastic study of the history of architecture.

3. It will be assessed as barely sufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, lack of knowledge of the history of architecture.

4. It will be assessed as insufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, no orientation within the recommended bibliography and inability to analyse the architecture.

Teaching tools

Students are provided with the course images and part of the bibliography.

Office hours

See the website of Anna Rosellini