COURSE INTRODUCTION The evolution of architecture. ARCHITECTURE OF THE 19th CENTURY. The historical picture. The political and social structure. Eclecticism and Revival. The eclectic historian: Labrouste, Hittorf. The Neo-Gothic: Viollet-le-Duc. England: Pugin, William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement, Ruskin. The architecture of Hendrik Petrus Berlage. The architecture of engineers, architecture and the city in the 19th century. American architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries.Original Architecture of the USA: the American tradition, Thomas Jefferson; urban development; Henry Hobson Richardson; the School of Chicago, Louis Sullivan. Frank Lloyd Wright from 1887 to 1922. ART NOUVEAU. The ideological assumptions and historical-cultural background. The birth and the various forms in Europe. Barcelona and the figure of Antoni Gaudì. PROTORATIONALISM. Adolf Loos, Peter Behrens, Hermann Muthesius, Das Deutscher Werkbund. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE AVANT-GARDE. Futurism, Constructivism, Expressionism. THE MODERN MOVEMENT. Le Corbusier from the beginning to World War II. Walter Gropius and Bauhaus. Urban experiences. The figure of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe until World War II. EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE. The Netherlands: the Amsterdam School, Neoplasticim, Pieter Oud, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Willem Marinus Dudok. Scandinavia: Alvar Aalto. Italy: from Novocento style to E42, architecture and urban planning. THE POST-WAR WORK OF THE MASTERS: Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius in the USA.
THE AGE OF RECONSTRUCTION IN EUROPE AND IN ITALY: Mario Ridolfi, Ludovico Quaroni, Giovanni Michelucci and Carlo Scarpa. FROM THE SIXTIES TO THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Louis Kahn. Architecture and Anti-Architecture in Britain. The experiences of Brazil and Japan. Extension and criticism in the sixties. Postmodernism. The New York Five. The pluralism of the Seventies. High-Tech. Deconstruction. Europe at the end of the century. ARCHITECTURE FOR A MILLENNIUM. Topography, Morphology, Sustainability, Materiality, Habitat, Civic Form. Berlin as a city-limit.