History of Architecture II and LaboratoryModule History of Architecture II
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: BIBIANA BORZI'Expected Learning Outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide students with the appropriate skills about the most important authors in Architectural History between 800 and 900. The goals are: understanding the main issues in architecture history, the role of the designers, the processes behind the project and the relationship between practice and theory, the role of the client and the general context, and the evolution of construction techniques. It is important to examine the value of each period and architecture movement in architecture history. It is necessary understanding the close relationship between architecture and design through the protagonists, their works and the objects created. In one word the protagonists of Made in Italy. Feed students with curiosity and attention to the architectural landscape, providing them with critical investigation tools that make them aware of the complexity of the designer’s role in the contemporary context.
Course Structure
Lectures with multimedia tools.
Detailed Course Content
Introduction to the study of Architectural History.
Arts and Crafts. Williams Morris.
Art Nouveau in the European context.
Catalan Modernism and Antoni Gaudí.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School.
The Viennese Secession: Otto Wagner, Joseph M. Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann.
Liberty in Italy.
Architecture and avant-garde. Antonio Sant’Elia and futurist architecture.
Adolf Loos.
Peter Behrens and the Deutsche Werkbund.
Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus.
Le Corbusier.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Frank Lloyd Wright.
Organic architecture in Europe. Alvar Aalto.
The protagonists of the early 20th century in Italy (Terragni, Persico, Piacentini, Ponti).
Architecture in Rome during the Twenties.
The International Style.
Louis Kahn.
Brutalism.
The Postmodern.
Notes about contemporary architecture.
Dossiers dedicated to protagonists of modern and contemporary architecture and design, including: Achille Castiglioni, Zaha Hadid, Le Corbusier, Alessandro Mendini, Gio Ponti, Richard Sapper, Ettore Sottsass.
Textbook Information
Guido Montanari, Andrea Jr Bruno, Architettura e città del Novecento, Roma, Carrocci, 2009.
Leonardo Benevolo, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Bari, Editori La Terza, 1966 (or subsequent editions).
Kenneth Frampton, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1993 (or subsequent editions).
Aldo Colonetti , Elena Brigi , Valentina Croci, Design italiano del XX secolo, Firenze, Giunti, 2008.
Gabriella Lo Ricco, Le Corbusier, Firenze, Giunti, 2018.
Jean Blanchaert, Gio Ponti, Firenze, Giunti, 2018.
Le Corbusier, Verso l’architettura (1923), Milano, Longanesi, 2012 (or subsequent editions).
Gio Ponti, Amate l’architettura. L’architettura è un cristallo (1957), Milano, Rizzoli, 2010 (or
subsequent editions).
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Art Nouveau, Avanguardia e architettura, architettura organica, i maestri del Movimento moderno, la costruzione della città contemporanea, Architettura e totalitarismi, il ritorno della storia (Kahn, Venturi), il Postmodern, dall'high tech alla città (R. Rogers e Renzo Piano), cenni sul panorama architettonico contemporaneo. | Bibliografia allegata. |