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HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 1 Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
As there is an exam of the first year, a basic scholastic knowledge of history and art relating to the periods covered in the lessons of the course, is required as a minimum.
Objectives Contents History, theories and architectural experiences in Europe and in non-European territories from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the contemporary age, with a discussion of the main figures and major works designed and/or built.
Extended Syllabus 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.
Recommended Bibliography R. MIDDLETON/D. WATKIN, Architettura dell’ottocento, Electa, Milano, 1980.
Teaching Methods The lectures will be supplemented by exercises both inside and outside of the classroom. Students will have the opportunity to meet with the teacher both through direct contact in the classroom, during office hours, as well as online via the latest electronic devices.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The end of course exam will be conducted as an oral interview for which the student will be required to have learned the basics as taught by the teacher. There will also be ongoing assessment of the preliminary exercises both in and out of the classroom.
Contacts/More Information Within the Course there will be a seminar whose final goal is that of the staging of an exhibition with the works produced by the students.
