History of Architecture I

The course aims to provide the students with fundamental knowledge and reading criteria necessary for the understanding and interpretation of the History of European and Western Architecture, in a chronological span ranging from the ancient to the first half of the eighteenth century.

The course aims to develop skills of analysis and research, of independent study and critical synthesis, recognizing the evolution of the characteristics of architecture, useful for the interpretation of the morphological, structural and technological aspects of architectures.

At the end of the course, the student must be able to acquire orientation and judgment skills of the architectural phenomena and to develop critical skills in identifying the linguistic, material and constructive aspects of the architectures in the different historical periods.

The course will tend also to ensure that the students acquired judgment in recognition of the strong link between the design aspects, the construction and the formal results of the architectures.

Lectures, possible guided tours.

In the event of mixed or distance learning, the necessary variations may be introduced with respect to what has previously been stated.

In accordance with the regulations of the relative Degree Course, attendance is compulsory and the student is required to attend at least 70% of the course hours.

The Mediterranean in the Greek Age: the development of Architecture from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age.

The Mediterranean in the Roman Age: the development of Republican and Imperial Architecture.

Late Antiquity and Early Christian Architecture.

Byzantine Architecture.

Romanesque Architecture in Europe.

Romanesque Architecture in Italy.

Norman Architecture in Sicily.

Gothic Architecture: The Revolution of Ile de France and other European countries.

Gothic Architecture in Italy between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.

The Renaissance in Italy: Filippo Brunelleschi, Michelozzo, Leon Battista Alberti and the Architecture of the Fifteenth Century in Florence.

The diffusion of Renaissance Architecture in Italy: Pienza and Urbino, Giuliano da Sangallo, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, the Fifteenth Century Architecture in Rome.

Venice and Milan between Late Gothic and Classical Architecture.

Southern Italy Architecture between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: The Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily.

Donato Bramante between Milan and Rome.

Bramante's pupils and the early Roman Sixteenth Century Architecture (Raffaello, Baldassarre Peruzzi, the Sangallo).

Giulio Romano.

Michelangelo between Florence and Rome.

The protagonists of Classicism in Veneto: Jacopo Sansovino, Michele Sanmicheli and Andrea Palladio.

Galeazzo Alessi and Pellegrino Tibaldi, Sebastiano Serlio and Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola.

Other architects of the Sixteenth Century Architecture in Rome: Pirro Ligorio, Giacomo del Duca, Giacomo della Porta, Ottavio Mascherino, Martino Longhi and Domenico Fontana.

The Sixteenth Century Architecture in Tuscany: Giorgio Vasari, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Bernardo Buontalenti.

Protagonists of the Seventeenth Century Architecture in Rome: Carlo Maderno, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Pietro da Cortona, Francesco Borromini, Carlo and Girolamo Rainaldi, Carlo Fontana.

Seventeenth Century Architecture in France.

Guarino Guarini.

Filippo Juvarra.

Early Eighteenth Century Architecture in Rome.

Themes and Protagonists of Architecture in Sicily between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

Eighteenth Century Architecture in Central Europe.

1. Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura, introduzione e premessa di Arnaldo Bruschi e Gaetano Miarelli Mariani, Armando editore, Roma 2019.

2. Storia dell'architettura in Italia tra Europa e Mediterraneo (VII-XVIII secolo), a cura di Alireza Naser Eslami, Marco Rosario Nobile, Pearson, Milano-Torino 2022.

 

Additional texts on specific topics:

L. Patetta, Storia dell'Architettura, Antologia Critica, Milano, Etas 1975 (ma con numerose riedizioni).

R. Martin, Architettura Greca, Electa, Milano 1980.

H. Berve, G. Gruben, I templi greci, Sansoni, Firenze 1962.

J. B. Ward-Perkins, Architettura Romana, Electa, Milano 1974.

C. Mango, Architettura bizantina, Electa, Milano 1978.

H. E. Kubach, Architettura romanica, Electa, Milano 1972.

M. Grodecki, Architettura gotica, Electa, Milano 1978.

Storia dell’architettura italiana (Quattrocento, Primo Cinquecento, Secondo Cinquecento, Seicento, Settecento), Electa, Milano 1998-2004.

R. Wittkower, Principi architettonici nell’età dell’umanesimo, Einaudi, Torino 1994.

W. Lotz, Architettura in Italia, 1500-1600, Rizzoli, Milano 2002.

C. L. Frommel, Architettura del Rinascimento Italiano, Skira, Milano 2009.

R. Wittkower, Arte e architettura in Italia, 1600-1750, Einaudi, Torino 2005.

C. Norberg-Schulz, Architettura Barocca, Electa, Milano 1971.

C. Norberg-Schulz, Architettura Tardobarocca, Electa, Milano 1972.