HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2

Segment

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI636

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Divisions:

Gruppo B

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in ARCHITECTURE

Disciplinary Sector:

History of Architecture

Is part of:

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

GIANNANTONIO Raffaele

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

120

Prerequisites:

The only requirement for the required prerequisites is to pass the History of Architecture exam 2 and have successfully completed the History of Architecture exam 1. There are no other prerequisites in terms of knowledge and specific skills for a profitable learning of teaching.

Objectives

Educational goals
The training objectives of the Course are to create an architectural culture in the students as well as a critical and projected conscience, favoring the integration of the subject with the others of the CdS and preparing the future architect for the responsibilities that await him once the course of study has been completed.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course will be expected those learning outcomes are to have provided students with the methodological tools necessary for reading and interpreting architecture from ancient Greece to the fifteenth century in relation to the cultural, social and economic context, also in relation to role of the client, to the political situation, to the environmental needs and to the constructive techniques.

Contents

The Course of History of Architecture 2B (8 cfu) of prof. Raffaele Giannantonio is composed of ex cathedra lessons and integrative activities such as a workshop on the theme of the year and educational visits to monuments and sites that are part of the program.
The main topics will be in brief: Ancient Architecture: Greek Architecture, Roman Architecture, Early Christian Architecture, Byzantine Architecture. Medieval Architecture: Pre-Romanesque Architecture, Romanesque Architecture, Gothic Architecture, 13th and 14th Century Architecture in Italy. Renaissance architecture: the fifteenth century.

Extended Syllabus

ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE. GREEK ARCHITECTURE. Greek civilization. General characters of architecture. Birth and development of the polis. The architecture of the sanctuaries. The Greek temple: the origin and evolution, the typological classifications. Architectural orders. The trilithic system and the problems of the construction site. THE ARCAIC PHASE. DORIC ARCHITECTURE IN GREECE AND COLONIES: Syracuse, Selinunte, Agrigento, Segesta, Poseidonia (Pæstum) and Campania. CLASSICAL GREEK ARCHITECTURE: The temple of Aphaia ad Egina; the Acropolis of Athens. New trends in Arcadia: the temple of Apollo Epicurio in Bassae. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE. Open spaces and public facilities. Theater: birth and evolution of the type. The HELLENISM. Historical and cultural conditions. Urban realities: Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon. The evolution of public facilities. Hellenistic theater: Pergamon, Ephesus. The sacred architecture; the funeral and votive architecture.
ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. The historical framework. Political and social structure. Construction techniques. Residential construction: the domus, the insula. Buildings and civil facilities: basilicas, libraries, theaters, amphitheaters, spas. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE REGIA AND REPUBLICAN AGE: the great urban works and temples. The Forum: birth and development. THE REPUBLICAN PHASE: religious and functional works. ARCHITECTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN AGE IN ROMAN ITALY (III-I century BC). The great sanctuaries: Præneste, Tivoli, Terracina, Sulmona. THE IMPERIAL AGE. The architecture of the age of Hadrian: the Pantheon, Villa Adriana in Tivoli. LATE-ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE. The late-imperial age and the evolution of spatial conception.
PALEOCRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. Birth and development of the types: the basilica, the martyrium, the baptistery. ROME. Constantine architecture. Post-Constantinian architecture: the great foundations and the "minor" basilicas. The buildings with central plan: S. Costanza, Lateran Baptistery.
THE BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE. Historical framework and general characteristics of architecture. CONSTANTINOPOLIS: the age of Justinian and St. Sophia. RAVENNA BETWEEN WEST AND EAST. The transfer of the imperial residence, the Ostrogothic kingdom, the Byzantines: the basilicas, S. Vitale.
THE MIDDLE AGES. CAROLINGIA ARCHITECTURE. Charlemagne and the Franks. ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE. The age of Romanesque. The Romanesque architecture: structural, typological and compositional characters. Romanesque architecture in Italy: the Padana area, the Tuscan area, Abruzzo, Venice between East and West, Puglia, Norman architecture and Arab culture in Sicily.
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. Design criteria, construction principles, spatial relationships and architectural elements. France: Primitive Gothic, "Classical" Gothic and Radiant Gothic.
ARCHITECTURE OF THE TWO CENTURY AND THREE CENTURY IN ITALY. Religious orders: critical thinking and aesthetic theories. The great examples of the architecture of the orders: Cistercian architecture; Franciscan and Dominican architecture. Conventual settlements and urban churches. The great cathedrals. Civil works: Florence, Siena, Venice, Castel del Monte.
RENAISSANCE. The fifteenth century. The historical-political framework. The Renaissance courts. The definition of the concept. Humanism and the culture of the Renaissance. The figure of the architect. Perspective as a tool for controlling space and design prefiguration. The theory of proportions. The architectural order. The controversy against the Gothic. The relationship with the ancient: the rediscovery of Vitruvius. The module as a spatial system. The big themes: central / longitudinal plan, the facade. FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI: Competition of 1401 for the panels of the Baptistery of Florence, Dome of s. Maria del Fiore, hospital of the Innocenti, "Vecchia" sacristy of s. Lorenzo, Pazzi chapel, church of s. Spirit. LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI. FLORENCE: the works for Giovanni Rucellai: palazzo; facade of s. Maria Novella. RIMINI AND SIGISMONDO MALATESTA: Tempio Malatestiano. MANTOVA AND LUDOVICO GONZAGA: s. Sebastiano, s. Andrew. TUSCANY IN THE FOURTH: THE POST-BRUNELLESCHIANE CORRENTS. Michelozzo di Bartolomeo: Palazzo Medici. Bernardo Rossellino: Pienza. Giuliano da Sangallo: S. Maria delle Carceri in Prato, Villa Medici in Poggio a Caiano. Francesco di Giorgio Martini: Treaty of architecture, engineering and military art, cathedral of Urbino, S. Bernardino ad Urbino; S. Maria delle Grazie at Calcinaio in Cortona, Rocca Ubaldesca of Sassocorvaro. The Ducal Palace of Urbino.
THE DIFFFUSION OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY. Milan; Bramante: S. Maria near S. Satiro, the tribune of S. Maria delle Grazie; Filarete: Sforzinda, Ospedale Maggiore. Venice; Mauro Codussi: S. Michele in Isola. Umbria: S. Maria della Consolazione in Todi. Rome; S. Maria del Popolo; Chancellery building. Naples: Arco di Castelnuovo; Giuliano da Maiano: villa of Poggio Reale.

Further specifications will be provided to the students during the course in the various detailed Programs drawn up at the end of each period treated (Greek, Roman, Medieval, Final).

Recommended Bibliography

Below are the basic texts and in-depth examinations for exam preparation. More detailed bibliographic references, aimed at the eventual further study of the specific topics, will be provided to the students during the lessons or in the hours of receipt.
Basic texts
Ancient architecture, from the Greek to the Byzantine
R. BONELLI, C. BOZZONI, V. FRANCHETTI PARDO, Storia dell’architettura medievale, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.
Medieval architecture
R. BONELLI, C. BOZZONI, V. FRANCHETTI PARDO, Storia dell’architettura medievale, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.
Architecture of the fifteenth century
C. L. FROMMEL, Architettura del Rinascimento italiano, Skira, Milano 2009.
Insights
R. MARTIN, Architettura Greca, Electa, Milano 1980.
J. B. WARD PERKINS, Architettura romana, Electa, Milano 1984.
J. P. ADAM, L’arte di costruire presso i Romani. Materiali e tecniche, Longanesi & C., Milano 2003.
R. KRAUTHEIMER, Architettura paleocristiana e bizantina, Einaudi, Torino 1986.
E. ADAM, Preromanico e Romanico, Gorlich, Milano 1973.
H. E. KUBACH, Architettura Romanica, Electa, Milano 1978.
L. GRODECKI, Architettura Gotica, Electa, Milano 1978.
P. MURRAY, Architettura del Rinascimento, Electa, Milano1989.
L BENEVOLO, Storia dell’architettura del Rinascimento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017.
In support of the lessons, the students of the Course can find and download all the ordinary educational material (program, bibliography) and integrative (from time to time product), on the web space www.unich / docenti / giannantonio and also on the Facebook group closed and on the dropbox folder that will be activated at the beginning of the course. These tools will be used for all communications to students in real time by the teacher and his collaborators.

Teaching Methods

The Course of History of Architecture 2B will take place mainly through ex cathedra lessons. In addition to the lectures, workshop activities will be carried out on the theme of the year which will in turn be indicated at the beginning of the course. At the end of these activities the student will have to deliver a book summarizing what he has produced, for which the student will be followed by the collaborators to the teacher. There will also be educational visits for the on-site study of monuments and sites indicated in the detailed program.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final exam is individual and will take place through: an interview in which the student will be asked, through questions of topics contained in the extended program and in the detailed program, to have learned the contents transmitted by the teacher, also through the design of synthetic graphic layouts (plans, elevations, sections); the discussion of the book produced by each student on the theme of the year. A constant and preliminary verification of student performance will also consist of any classroom exercises and out-of-home educational visits. The final evaluation of the exam will be expressed in thirtieths and the oral exam, being the only verification of the study work, will have a weight of 30/30. The final evaluation will also take into account the book delivered by the student and the collaboration to the Course through attendance and active presence in the various educational activities. Further specifications regarding the examination methods will be provided to the students during the course. These methods are applied to produce adequate verification of the achievement of the expected learning outcomes and results.

Contacts/More Information

The course of History of Architecture 2B of prof. Raffaele Giannantonio is held in the first semester during the hours and in the classrooms that will be indicated in the appropriate calendar elaborated by the Department Secretariat.
Attendance is mandatory and is assessed periodically during the year through appeals made at the beginning of the lesson.
At the beginning of the academic year, at the same time as this program, on the web space www.unich.it/docenti/giannantonio/ and also in the dropbox folder and in the closed group specially created facebook are specified the dates and times in which the individual didactic activities, laboratory activities, educational visits and the final exam.
For any clarification on the topics and methods of the Course, during the first cycle (September-December 2018) the teacher will be available to the students at his office in the Department of Architecture (blue staircase, 2nd floor, room 6) in the times indicated on the University website. The same questions can also be sent via e-mail to the following address: raffaele.giannantonio@gmail.com

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Aree