Aimed at a cultural audience that is not necessarily aligned with the knowledge provided by institutional History of Architecture courses, the course aims to increase students' ability to "read" architecture and to make them more aware of the role of History within the design process. In particular, the course provides an introduction to the methods and practices of historical research and the development of individual interpretative tools through the exercise on material, documentary and iconographic sources of selected architectures from the 15th century to the contemporary age.
scheda docente
materiale didattico
This section of the course aims at presenting a series of different historical analysis and interpretations, considered of significant value with respect to the scientific background of the author, to her/his methods of investigations, to research goals, patronage and chronological context.
In particular, the course will deal with monographic topics aimed at the methodological acquisition for the workshop elaboration of ‘Atlases of Architecture’. The topics will vary, depending on the year, from diachronic readings of specific typologies (convent architecture, church models, the villa, the residence, ...) to certain territorial contexts (the Umbria of sanctuaries, new cities in Sicily, ...), or interpretative analyses of general phenomena (sustainability in history, spontaneous architecture, the concept of the ‘Classic’, ‘Geoarchitecture’, ...).
John Summerson, Il linguaggio classico dell’Architettura, Torino 1970.
C. Norberg-Schultz, Genius Loci. Paesaggio, ambiente, architettura, Electa, 1979
Giovanna CURCIO, Mario MANIERI ELIA, Storia ed uso dei modelli architettonici, Laterza, 1982
Stefano RAY, L’architettura dell’Occidente, La Nuova Italia scientifica, 1987
Sandro BENEDETTI, Fuori del Classicismo, Bonsignori, 19932
Joseph Connors, Alleanze e inimicizie. L’urbanistica di Roma barocca, 2005
Barnabas Calder, Architettura ed energia. Dalla preistoria all’emergenza climatica, Einaudi, 2022
Programma
The course of “History and Methods of Analysis of Architecture” aims at critically retracing the composition process - either ideological, methodical or procedural- at the basis of every architecture. Lessons in chronological sequence, from early modern age to the XX century, are dedicated to masterworks or lesser known architectures, discussing the sources required by selected "history making" processes.This section of the course aims at presenting a series of different historical analysis and interpretations, considered of significant value with respect to the scientific background of the author, to her/his methods of investigations, to research goals, patronage and chronological context.
In particular, the course will deal with monographic topics aimed at the methodological acquisition for the workshop elaboration of ‘Atlases of Architecture’. The topics will vary, depending on the year, from diachronic readings of specific typologies (convent architecture, church models, the villa, the residence, ...) to certain territorial contexts (the Umbria of sanctuaries, new cities in Sicily, ...), or interpretative analyses of general phenomena (sustainability in history, spontaneous architecture, the concept of the ‘Classic’, ‘Geoarchitecture’, ...).
Testi Adottati
James Ackerman, La villa. Forma e ideologia, TorinoJohn Summerson, Il linguaggio classico dell’Architettura, Torino 1970.
C. Norberg-Schultz, Genius Loci. Paesaggio, ambiente, architettura, Electa, 1979
Giovanna CURCIO, Mario MANIERI ELIA, Storia ed uso dei modelli architettonici, Laterza, 1982
Stefano RAY, L’architettura dell’Occidente, La Nuova Italia scientifica, 1987
Sandro BENEDETTI, Fuori del Classicismo, Bonsignori, 19932
Joseph Connors, Alleanze e inimicizie. L’urbanistica di Roma barocca, 2005
Barnabas Calder, Architettura ed energia. Dalla preistoria all’emergenza climatica, Einaudi, 2022
Bibliografia Di Riferimento
Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural principles in the age of humanism, Warburg Institute, London 1965 [1949] Bernard Rudofsky, Architecture without Architects. A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture, New York 1964 [1972, 1987] Richard Krautheimer, Tre capitali cristiane. Topografia e politica, Einaudi, 1987 Paolo Portoghesi, Natura e Architettura, 1999 Giovanna CURCIO, Elisabeth KIEVEN (a cura di), Storia dell’architettura italiana. Il Settecento, Electa, 2000 Aurora SCOTTI TOSINI (a cura di), Storia dell’architettura italiana. Il Seicento, Electa, 2003 Paolo Portoghesi, Geoarchitettura, 2005 Laura Marcucci, Marcello Villani (a cura di), Atlante del Barocco in Italia. Umbria, De Luca Editori d’Arte, 2012 S. STURM, S. NORLANDER ELIASSON (a cura di), Fra doppi muri. Cultura e arte claustrale femminile a Roma in età moderna, Quattroemme, 2023 Stefano Mancuso, Fitopolis, la città vivente, Laterza, 2023 Franco La Cecla, Addomesticare l’architettura. L’Occidente e la distruzione dell’abitare, Utet, 2024Modalità Erogazione
Classes are organized as a sequence of lessons thematically ordered. Active participation of students is highly recommended, as well as their attendance to all the activities (visits to exhibitions or sites of interests) foreseen by the schedule provided. At the end of the course, each student is asked to present a critic paper on a topic previously agreed with the professors: this elaborate, filled by text, images and analytic drawings, can be either in paper or digital format (file .pdf preferred).Modalità Frequenza
Attendance is mandatory for 75% of the course durationModalità Valutazione
The examination consists of an oral test, based on the student's knowledge of the bibliography provided by the course and the topics discussed in the lecture, and the submission of a written paper, the result of individual research, related to the monographic topics addressed in the course and agreed with the lecturer. More details will be provided during the course.