HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 1

Segment

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI635

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2020/2021

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 1

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

FIADINO Filomena Adelina

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

120

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites:
None required.

Objectives

The course has the objectives of:
- provide tools for the historical-critical analysis of the transformations of the territory and of historical buildings;
- make known personalities, works, theories in architecture from the mid-18th century to today.

Contents

The Course of Contemporary History of Architecture (8 cfu) comprises a series of lessons ex cathedra with the duration of approximately four (4) hours each regarding the transformation of the Architectural language from the second half of the 1700s up to today.

Extended Syllabus

Program in Extended Version

The Course examines the evolutive phases of Architecture from the second half of the 1700s up to today in relation to the geographical, social, cultural, political and economic context. The following arguments will be discussed in particular:
Architecture from the Age of “Enlightment” (Boullée, Ledoux e Durand) and of the 1800s: Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Nuovo Corpo di Guardia, Teatro di prosa, Altes Museum, church of Friedrichwerder, Academy of Architecture, a project for a grande warehouse); Leo von Klenze (Propilei, Gliptoteca, Ruhmeshalle, Post Office building. Royal palace, Walhalla), Friedrich von Gärtner.
Architecture and Urbanisation in the European capitals in the second half of the 1800s; Paris of II Empire; Vienna and the Ring, interventions in Florence and Rome.
Architecture of Engineers: The use of iron and glass. The crisis of Eclecticism history. L’Art Nouveau: Opera of Victor Horta. The Liberty in Italy (Raimondo d’Aronco, Giuseppe Sommaruga, Giovanni Michelazzi). Works of Antoni Gaudí (Park Güell, case Batlló and Milà, Sagrada Familia); William Morris and the Arts and Crafts.
The School of Chicago, Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan.
The work of Otto Wagner (offices of Länderbank; Majolikahaus; offices of the Postal Bank; Church of St. Leopold am Steinhof; the two ville of Wagner); Adolf Loos (building in Michaelerplatz; houses of Steiner, Scheu, Müller; project for the offices of the Chicago Tribune); Auguste Perret and architecture in reinforced cement (building in rue Franklin, garage in rue de Ponthieu, church of Notre-Dame de Consolation a Le Raincy, houses of Cassandre, Museum of Public Works). Architecture and Industry: Deutscher Werkbund, Peter Behrens (AEG turbine factory).
The role of the Avanguardie. Futurism: The manifest of futuristic architecture and drawings by Antonio Sant’Elia. Il De Stijl: Theo van Doesburg, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (house of Schröder, red-blue chair).
Architecture and the Revolution in Russia: Constructivism (Konstantin Melnikov: The Pavillion of the Soviet Union Exhibition of Paris, workers’ recreational club Rusakov). German Expressionism: Erich Mendelsohn (Torre Einstein, warehouses of Schocken in Stoccarda).
The masters of Architecture: Walter Gropius: from the workshops of Fagus to Bauhaus. Le Corbusier: houses of Domino and Citrohan, l’immeuble-villa; the 5 points of the new architecture and villa Savoye. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: the first projects, Weissenhof, the German Pavillion at the Universal Exhibition of Barcellona, villa Tugendhat. Frank Lloyd Wright and organic architecture: from the Prairie Houses to the House on the Waterfall.
Italian architecture between the two wars. Facism and Architecture: the Houses of the Fascio, Offices of ONB. Group 7 and Miar. The Station of Florence, the University City of Rome and the Grandi Concorsi: The work of Giuseppe Terragni at Como (Novocomum, asilo Sant’Elia, House of the Fascio). Work of Giovanni Muzio, Marcello Piacentini. Projects for l’E 42.

Architecture of the II Postwar. The reconstruction post-bellica. The activity of the Masters: Le Corbusier (The Unification of housing in Marsiglia, convent de la Tourette, chapel of Ronchamp, Chandigarh), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Campus dell’IIT, Farnsworth House, Seagram Building, New National Gallery of Berlin), Frank Lloyd Wright (house of David Wright, Guggenheim Museum). Aalvar Alto (Baker House, residential centre of Ravaniemi, church of the Three Croses of Imatra), Oscar Niemeyer (complex of Pampulha, house of das Canoas, Brasilia, Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói), Eero Saarinen (Jefferson Memorial, General Motors Technical Center, the ice building of Yale University, Terminal TWA, Dulles Airport, CBS skyscraper), Louis Kahn.
Architecture in Italy: E.N. Rogers and the tower of Velasca, Mario Ridolfi, Ludovico Quaroni, Giovanni Michelucci.
Architecture and the trends in the ‘60s; “pop art”, Robert Venturi, Charles Moore and post-modernism
Expressionist structuralism, deconstructivism, hi-tech.
Contemporary Architects: Richard Meier, Gustav Peichl, Herman Hertzberger, Günter Behnisch, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, Daniel Libeskind, Renzo Piano, Mario Botta, Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, Alvaro Siza, Rafael Moneo, Santiago Calatrava, Felix Candela, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Herzog e de Meuron.
Recent trends of Japanese Architecture: Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito; Architecture and the trends in the era of Globalisation.

Recommended Bibliography

Reference Texts

In order to take the Examination, it is obligatory that the topics of the following texts be studied:
K. FRAMPTON, Storia dell' architettura moderna (1980), Zanichelli, Bologna 1982 ed. successive.
W. J.R. CURTIS, L’architettura moderna del Novecento, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 1999 ed. successive.
D. WATKIN, Storia dell’architettura occidentale, Zanichelli, Bologna 1990 ed. successive.
S. CIRANNA, G. DOTI, M. L. NERI, Architettura e città nell’Ottocento, Roma 2011.
Enciclopedia Universale dell’Arte (EUA);
Dizionario di Architettura e Urbanistica (DAU);
N. PEVSNER, FLEMING J., H. HONOUR, Dizionario di Architettura; Enciclopedia dell’Architettura (Serie Le Garzantine).

For further detail, the following bibliography is suggested.
BANHAM R., Architettura della prima età della macchina, a cura di M. Biraghi, Milano, Marinotti, 2005.
BENEVOLO L., Storia dell’architettura moderna, Laterza, Bari, 1960.
BIRAGHI M., FERLENGA A. (a cura di), Architettura del Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2012, voll. 2.
BIRAGHI M., Storia dell’architettura contemporanea, Torino, Einaudi, 2008.
BLAKE P., La forma segue il fiasco. Perché l'architettura moderna non ha funzionato, Firenze, Alinea, 1983.
BRUNO JR. A., Percorsi dell’architettura contemporanea, Roma, Carocci, 2006.
BUCCIARELLI P., Fritz Höger maestro anseatico 1877-1949, Venezia, Arsenale, 1991.
BUCCIARELLI P., Hugo Häring. Impegno nella ricerca organica, Bari, 1980.
CALABI D., Storia dell'urbanistica europea, Milano, Mondadori, 2004.
CIRANNA S., Doti G., Neri M.L., Architettura e città nell'Ottocento, Roma, Carocci, 2011.
CIUCCI G., Gli architetti e il fascismo. Architettura e città 1922-44, Torino, Einaudi, 1989.
CIUCCI G., Muratore G., Storia dell’architettura italiana,Electa,Milano, 2004 (voll. 2).
DAL CO (a cura di), Storia dell’architettura italiana, Milano, Electa, 1997, voll. 2.
DE BENEDETTI M.- A. PRACCHI, Antologia dell’architettura moderna. Testi, manifesti, utopie, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1998.
DE FUSCO R., Storia dell'architettura contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza,1974.
GIEDION S., Spazio tempo e architettura, Milano, Hoepli, 1954.
HITCHCOCK H. R., L'architettura dell'Ottocento e del Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 1971.
LE CORBUSIER, Verso una architettura (1923), a cura di P. Cerri e P. Nicolin, Milano, Longanesi, 1992.
LOOS A., Parole nel vuoto, Milano, Adelphi, 1972.
MIDDLETON R., WATKIN D., Architettura dell'Ottocento, Milano, Electa, 1977.
MUNTONI A., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997.
PEVSNER N., I pionieri dell’architettura moderna. Da William Morris a Walter Gropius, Milano, Garzanti, 1983.
POLANO S., Guida all'architettura italiana del Novecento, Milano, Electa, 1991.
PORTOGHESI P., I grandi architetti del Novecento, Roma, Newton & Compton, 1998.
ROSSI A., L’architettura della città, Padova, Marsilio,1966.
TAFURI M., Dal Co F., Architettura contemporanea, Milano, Electa, 976.
VENTURI R., Complessità e contraddizioni nell’architettura, Bari, Dedalo, 1980.
ZEVI B., Storia dell'architettura moderna, Torino, Einaudi, 1950.
ZUCCONI G., La città dell’Ottocento, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2001.

Teaching Methods

Didactic Methodologies

The didactic program is comprised of a series of theoretical lessons and practical lessons that follow the sequence of topics described in the program, enhanced by the projection of images and didactic material (photocopies and slides). Each lesson is followed by a brief discussion in which the students are invited to express their personal opinion regarding the arguments examined or on the architectural works illustrated. In order to prepare for the Examination, students can use all the didactic material offered by the tutor at the end of the lesson. For explanations and further detail, individual meetings during the hours of reception are provided.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Learning Verification Mode

The final evaluation consists of an Oral Examination that focuses on the discussion of the main arguments studied during lessons in accordance with the program. The student needs to demonstrate the knowledge of the Architectural works in their Historical/Cultural context with a description and also with the aid of simple free-hand drawings and formal, structural and stylistic elements.

Contacts/More Information

Further Information

The Course takes place in the lecture rooms of the Faculty of Architecture in Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, in the first semester of the Academic Year according to the President’s Administration Office calendar. Attendance is not obligatory, however, we do suggest to arrange the planning with the tutor. In the calendar of the degree course, the dates and times of the examination are specified.
Office hours: after lessons and in the second semester on Wednesdays from 12 to 14.
fiadino@unich.it ; tel. 339-7283440 / 085-4537022 (Department).

Università degli Studi
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