70464 - History of Architecture 2

Learning outcomes

The course is divided into three modules structured around lectures and seminars. After a series of initial introductive lectures, the course touches upon the most significant and exemplary themes and monuments of western architecture from the XVIII century A.D. to the contemporary period.

Course contents

Module 1: Baroque and late Baroque architecture in Europe:

1. Architecture in Rome, Piedmont, and other Italian centers (Venice, Naples, Bologna) during the XVIII century
2. Classicism and Baroque architecture in Paris and Versailles (J.H. Mansart, L. Le Vau, A. Le Nôtre)
3. Baroque architecture in Austria and Germany (J. B. Fischer von Erlach, Asam, Neumann, the Dientzenhofers)
4. Architecture in England (C. Wren, J. Vanbrugh, N. Hawksmoor)

Module 2: Neoclassicism in architecture

1. Global Palladianism (from I. Jones to T. Jefferson)
2. Giovan Battista Piranesi and Rome
3. The industrial revolution and the expansion of the European capitals
4. From É.L. Boullée to G.A. Antolini: European architecture between the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire
5. European classicism in the first half of the XIX century

Module 3: Architecture and the city from the first Industrial Revolution to the contemporary period

1. The architecture of Eclecticism
2. English utopian architects
3. Modern capital cities in Europe: Paris, London, Barcellona
4. The Chicago School of Architecture
5. Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, Liberty style, and Catalan modernism
6. Art and architecture of the historical avant-gardes
7. From the German Werkbund to the Bauhaus
8. Classicism and modernity between the two wars: Architecture in Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union
9. Masters of modern architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, and Louis Kahn
10. Architecture in Europe and the USA after WWII
11. From Modernism to the International Style
12. From the CIAM to the Team X: The modernist tradition and its legacy
13. Radical architecture
14. Architecture as design
15. Postmodernism in architecture
16. High-tech architecture
17. Critical regionalism and Environmentalism
18. Deconstructivism
19. Digital architecture

Readings/Bibliography

 

For the modules 1 and 2:

G. Cricco, F. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte, Versione Gialla, vol.4, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2016

R. Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750,The Yale U.P. Pelican History.

For the module 3:

L. Benevolo, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2014 (I ed. 1960)

L. Benevolo, L’architettura del nuovo millennio, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2014 (I ed. 2006)

 

Teaching methods

Lectures and labs will alternate for the most efficient exploration of the themes

Assessment methods

During the course of the year, students will be examined on monument identifications. The final exam will be oral. It will include the variety of themes studied throughout the year.

Teaching tools

Lectures will be delivered with visual aids such as power point presentations, screenings and internet sources.

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Ceccarelli

See the website of Matteo Cassani Simonetti

See the website of Daniele Pascale Guidotti Magnani