- Docente: Giovanni Leoni
- Credits: 9
- SSD: ICAR/18
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Architecture and Building Engineering (cod. 0940)
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
Crisis of Eclecticism and new models of creativity
In search of truth: technique, ornament, order
Body and metropolis: the Avant-Garde contribution
Mies van der Rohe
Le Corbusier
Louis Kahn
Autobiographies of Anonymous Architects: Fernando Távora, Álvaro Siza, Aris Konstantinidis
Post-war Italian City
Post-war Reconstruction
Matter and fragments: Carlo Scarpa
Architectures in memory of political and racial deportation
Autobiographies of Anonymous Architects II: Ernesto N. Rogers, Leonardo Ricci, Aldo Rossi, Eduardo Souto de Moura
Born after Modernism
Readings/Bibliography
The bibliography will be published on IOL lesson by lesson.
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
IOL https://iol.unibo.it
Office hours
See the website of Giovanni Leoni
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.