Programma

The development of architectural forms and theories between the 17th and the 21st centuries. Particular attention will be given to the different social and cultural conditions underlying them, to permanent values, to the transformations and revolutionary innovations of artistic languages, to spatial, technological and structural innovations, to the functionality of use and the rationality of form. The course consists in lectures, seminars and on-site visits, in exploring the complex path of the history of architecture and the development of modern town from the baroque age up to the contemporary time. Our aim is that of tracing, through critical analyses and a selection of architectural works, of actors, of urban and regional contexts, the chronological and geographical stages that have contributed to defining the devious course that characterizes the history of national and international architecture, from the end of the 16th to the 21st century. The programme will cover the following topics:

1. Cities and architecture in the 17th century
2. The 18th century: architecture in the 'century of enlightenment' between 'revivlas' and 'revolutions'.
3. The 19th century: from the city to the metropolis
4. Technological modernisation in the 19th century: architecture, engineering, art and crafts
5. Art Nouveau and national movements (Secession, Art Nouveau, Floralism, Modernism, Jugendstil)
6. Theory and works of Adolf Loos (1870-1933)
7. Architecture in the USA, laboratory of modernity
8. The artistic and architecure avant-gardes of the 20th century
9. Architecture and industry in the "The Short Twentieth Century". The advent of reinforced concrete
10. Rationalist, functionalist, organic architecture
11. Italy in the 20th century
12. Notes on architecture in the new millennium

Testi Adottati

Rudolf WITTKOWER, Arte e architettura in Italia 1600-1750, Torino 1993 (1972; Einaudi)
Leonardo BENEVOLO, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Roma-Bari 2010 (1960; Laterza)
Kenneth FRAMPTON, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Bologna 1982 (Zanichelli)
William J.R. CURTIS, L’architettura moderna dal 1900, Milano 1999 (Bruno Mondadori; new edition Phaidon 2006)
Alessandra MUNTONI, Lineamenti di Storia dell’architettura contemporanea, Roma-Bari 2009 (1997; Laterza)
Elena DELLAPIANA, Guido MONTANARI, Una storia dell’architettura contemporanea, Torino 2015 (Utet)

Bibliografia Di Riferimento

David WATKIN, Storia dell’architettura occidentale, Zanichelli, Bologna 2016 Christian NORBERG-SCHULZ, Architettura Barocca, Electa, Milano 1979 Paolo PORTOGHESI, Roma barocca (Laterza, oppure nuova edizione Editori Riuniti, 2011) Leonardo BENEVOLO, San Pietro e la città di Roma, Roma-Bari 2005 (Laterza) Richard KRAUTHEIMER, Roma di Alessandro VII. 1655-1667, Roma 1987 (Edizioni dell’Elefante) Francesco BORROMINI, Opus Architectum, a cura di J. Connors, Milano 1998 (Il Polifilo) Saverio STURM, L'eremo di Montevirginio e la tipologia del Santo Deserto, Roma 2002 (Gangemi) Emil KAUFMANN, L’architettura dell’Illuminismo, Einaudi, Torino 1966 (I^ ed. 1955) Rudolf WITTKOWER, Palladio e il palladianesimo, Einaudi, Torino 1995 (I^ ed. 1974) Barry BERGDOLL, European Architecture 1750-1890, Oxford-New York 2000 (Oxford History of Art) Nicolaus PEVSNER, I pionieri dell’architettura moderna, Garzanti, Milano 1999 (I^ ed. 1943) Sigfried GIEDION, Spazio, tempo architettura, Milano 1984 (Hoepli; I ed. 1941) Bruno ZEVI, Storia dell’architettura moderna, voll. I e II, Einaudi, Torino 2004 Renato DE FUSCO, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Roma-Bari 1990 Adolf LOOS, Parole nel vuoto, Milano 1992 (1972; Adelphi) Giorgio CIUCCI, Manfredo TAFURI, Francesco DAL CO, Mario MANIERI ELIA, La città americana: dalla guerra civile al New Deal, Roma-Bari 1973 (Laterza) Carlo MELOGRANI, Architetture nell’Italia della ricostruzione, Roma 2015 (Quodlibet) Manfredo TAFURI, Francesco DAL CO, Architettura contemporanea, Milano 1988 (1976; Electa) Kenneth FRAMPTON, L’altro Movimento Moderno, Cinisello Balsamo 2015 (Silvana Editoriale) Paolo PORTOGHESI, Dopo l’architettura moderna, Roma-Bari 1981 (Laterza) Leonardo BENEVOLO, L’architettura nel nuovo millennio, Roma-Bari 2006 (Laterza) Deyan SUDJIC, Architettura e potere. Come i ricchi e i potenti hanno dato forma al mondo, Roma-Bari 2011 (Laterza) Barnabas CALDER, Architettura ed energia. Dalla preistoria all’emergenza climatica, Torino 2022 (Einaudi)

Modalità Erogazione

Classroom lessons, site inspections, educational visits, graphic exercises. In the case of an extension of the COVID-19 health emergency, all the provisions that regulate the methods of carrying out the teaching activities and student assessment will be implemented. In particular, the following methods will apply: e-learnig by IT platforms Moodle and MS Teams.

Modalità Frequenza

Students participation is defined by our "Regolamento didattico" (at least 75% of presence of the student to the teacher's lessons).

Modalità Valutazione

The oral examination comtemplates the discussion of three topics at least, related to the different periods covered by the course.