95847 - History and Theory of Architecture

Learning outcomes

Once completed the course, the student knows how to apply the methods for the historical-critical analysis of architecture and the city and he/she knows how to apply them to specific contexts, returning the results of these analyses by identifying the structuring characteristics of the contexts according to the physical, socio-cultural, aesthetic-perceptive connotation, as well as the needs for protection and the potential for enhancement.

Course contents

The Anonymous Paradigm

1. Architecture in Memory of the Shoah: An Anonymous remembrance
2. Fernando Távora: the organisation of space
3. Alvaro Siza: an animal vocation
4. Aris Kostantinidis: Necessity and Case
5. Ernesto Nathan Rogers: Anonymous 20th Century
6. Leonardo Ricci: Anonymous 20th Century 
7. Aldo Rossi: Forgetting Architecture
8. Eduardo Souto Moura: (not) being ESM
9. David Chipperfield: theoretical practice
10. Reconstruction in Italy and the restoration of historic cities
11. Museography in Italy in the second half of the 20th century
12. Community models in Italy. Implementation or eclipse?
13. Female architecture: Eileen Gray and Charlotte Perriand

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliographic references and related materials will be provided lesson by lesson on MIRO

Teaching methods

Ex-cathedra lectures.

Exercise in critical reading of architecture and the city.

Study Trips.

Assessment methods

The exercises will be assessed during the year and will contribute to the final grade.
The final examination will consist of an interview aimed at verifying knowledge of what was presented in the classroom and what is contained in the bibliographical materials deposited on MIRO.

Teaching tools

miro.com/it/

(registration is free for Unibo students)

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Leoni