Main subjects
INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE.
NINETEENTH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE. The historical framework. Eclecticism and Revival. Historicist Eclecticism: Labrouste, Hittorf. The Neo-Gothic: Viollet-le-Duc. England: Pugin, William Morris and the Arts and Crafts, Ruskin. Hendrik Petrus Berlage's architecture. The architecture of engineers, architecture and cities in the nineteenth century. American architecture between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Henry Hobson Richardson; the Chicago School, Louis Sullivan. Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1922.
ART NOUVEAU. The ideological and historical-cultural assumptions. The birth and the different variations in Europe. Barcelona and the figure of Antoni Gaudi.
PROTORATIONALISM. Adolf Loos, Peter Behrens, Hermann Muthesius, the Deutscher Werkbund.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE AVANT-GARDE. Futurism, Constructivism, Neoplasticism. Expressionism.
THE MODERN MOVEMENT. Le Corbusier (part I - from the origins to World War II). Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus. Urban planning experiences. The figure of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe up to World War II.
EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL CULTURES. Holland: the Amsterdam School, Neoplasticism, Pieter Oud, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Willem Marinus Dudok. Scandinavia: Alvar Aalto. Italy: from the twentieth century style to the E42, architecture and urban planning.
THE POST-WAR IN THE WORK OF MASTERS: Le Corbusier (part II). Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius in the USA. RECONSTRUCTION IN EUROPE. RECONSTRUCTION IN ITALY: Mario Ridolfi, Ludovico Quaroni, Giovanni Michelucci, Carlo Scarpa. FROM THE 1960s TO THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Louis Kahn. Architecture and anti-architecture in Great Britain. The experiences of Brazil and Japan. Extension and criticism in the sixties. The Postmodern. The New York Five. The pluralism of the Seventies. The High-Tech. Deconstructivism. Europe at the turn of the century.
ARCHITECTURE FOR A MILLENNIUM