30945 - History of Architecture T

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Pier Giorgio Massaretti
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ICAR/18
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Building Engineering (cod. 9199)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student has acquired the concept of evolution of construction techniques and knows contextualize the functional and visual outcomes compared to socio-economic and technical environment within which the architectural work was produced.
In particular, the student will be able to: i) make a proper literature search; ii) property amenities include rare-critically a path of historical studies; iii) to recognize historically the main language of architectural structures, bringing them back to its building systems; iv) describe and comment on, in ver-bale and writing, an architecture belonging to the historical period in question.

Course contents

- The teaching curriculum of "History of Architecture-T" - with the help of the manual selected and with the help of special monographic lessons - is intended to bring to light the close interaction between the historical development of techniques (materials and technologies) constructive and the unraveling of "historical narrative" of the architectural discipline.
- The theoretical instruction program covers the following topics:

1. L’architettura vernacolare; 2. L’antico Egitto; 3. La Grecia antica; 4. L’antica Roma; 5. L’architettura paleocristiana ed il bizantino; 6. Il romanico; 7. L’architettura medioevale ed il gotico; 8. Il Rinascimento in Italia; 9. Il barocco e il rococò; 10. Il classicismo romantico; 11. Le Americhe e oltre; 12. La genesi dell’architettura moderna; 13. Il passaggio tra Ottocento e Novecento; 14. L’International Style; 15. L’architettura del pluralismo.

- The teaching program is divided into a double and synergistic program, both of lectures, both of field investigations (guided tours, educational travel) of Ravenna and national architectural heritage.
- The foreseen frontal lessons will be an integration and an in-depth study of the aforementioned topics, which are the subject of examination questions.

Readings/Bibliography

Required manuals of the course:
- Nuttgens, Patrick, “History of Architecture”, Bruno Mondadori, Milano [2001] - Chapters relevant to the program:

8) Prefazione; 10) Alcuni fatti fondamentali dell’Architettura. L’architettura vernacolare; 16) Lo splendore barbarico. Le prime civiltà; […]; 28) La geometria dell’immortalità. L’antico Egitto; 86) Il paesaggio degli dei. La Grecia antica; 102) L’autorità della competenza. L’antica Roma; 116) La comunità adorante. Il Paleocristiano ed il Bizantino; 130) L’ordine e il santuario. Il Romanico; […]; 158) La metafisica della luce. L’architettura medioevale ed il gotico; 176) La scala della perfezione umana. Il Rinascimento in Italia; […]; 202) Il dramma delle forme e dello spazio. Il Barocco e il Rococò; 218) I profeti dell’eleganza. Il classicismo romantico; 230) Dal pionierismo al consolidamento. Le Americhe e oltre; 240) Il trionfo dei maestri del ferro. La ricerca di uno stile.


- Frampton, Kenneth, "Storia dell’architettura moderna", Zanichelli, Bologna [2008] - Chapters relevant to the program:

IX) Introduzione; 56) II. 3. Frank Llyod Wright e il mito della prateria 1890-1916; 65) II. 4 . Il Razionalismo strutturale e l’influenza di Viollet-le-Duc: Guadì, Horta, Guimard e Berlage 1880-1910; 76) II. 5. Charles Rennie Mackintosh e la Scuola di Glasgow 1896-1916; 81) II. 6. La Primavera Sacra: Wagner, Olbrich e Hoffmann 1886-191; 89) II. 7. Antonio Sant’Elia e l’architettura futurista 1909-1914; 96) II. 8. Adolf Loos e la crisi della cultura 1896-1931; […]; 108) II. 10. Tony Garnier e la «Cité industrielle» 1899-1918; 114) II. 11. Auguste Perret: l’evoluzione di un razionalismo classico 1899-1923; 119) II. 12. Il Deutsche Werbund 1898-1927; 128) II. 13. La Catena del vetro: l’architettura espressionista in Europa 1910-1925; 136) II. 14. Il Bauhaus: l’evoluzione di un’idea 1919-1932; […]; 160) II. 16. «De Stijl»: l’evoluzione e la dissoluzione del Neoplasticismo 1917-1931; 169) II. 17. Le Corbusier e l’Esprit Nouveau 1907-1931; 183) II. 18. Mies van der Rohe e l’espressione della realtà 1921-1933; 191) II. 19. La nuova collettività: arte e architettura nell’Unione Sovietica 1918-1930; 205) II. 20. Le Corbusier e la «Ville Radieuse» 1928-1946; 215) II. 21. Frank Llyod Wright e la «Disappearing City» 1929-1963; 223) II. 22. Alvar Aalto e la tradizione nordica: il romanticismo nazionale e la sensibilità doricistica 1895-1957; 237) II. 23. Giuseppe Terragni e l’architettura del Razionalismo italiano 1926-1943; 247) II. 24. Architettura e Stato: ideologia e rappresentazione 1914-1943.

Assessment methods

- The exam will be developed and supported in oral form, and divided into four questions:
i) a topic of Nuttgens selected directly by the candidate
ii) a subject of the same selected manually instead of by the commission
iii) a topic of Frampton selected directly by the candidate
iv) the presentation of the monographic essay produced

Teaching tools

In addition the information provided in the course repertoire program, lessons will be dedicated to:
i) an in-depth presentation and articulation of the course objectives
ii) the illustration of the fundamental "research tools" of the discipline, the theory and application of the history of architectural and related construction techniques works;
iii) the development of specific topics and/or monographic papers, dedicated to examining a specific disciplinary issues.

Links to further information

http://www.unibo.it/docenti/piergiorg.massaretti

Office hours

See the website of Pier Giorgio Massaretti

SDGs

Quality education Sustainable cities Partnerships for the goals

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.