Critical review of the most important architectural works from antiquity to the fifteenth century.
GREEK ARCHITECTURE. PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ARCHITECTURE. THE
URBAN ORGANISM AND CIVIL ARCHITECTURE. RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE.
THE ORIGIN OF THE TEMPLE. THE EVOLUTION OF THE ORDER FROM
CORINTH TO CORFU. GREECE "ELSEWHERE": IONIA AND THE WEST
COLONIES. IONIA BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA. THE GREAT SANCTUARIES
OF IONIA: THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS AT EPHESUS. ARCHITECTURE IN
PANELLENIC SANCTUARIES. THE GREECES IN THE WEST: GREAT GREECE.
THE GREEK AND PHENIC SETTLEMENT CRITERIA. URBAN PLANNING.
CLASSICAL GREEK ARCHITECTURE. HISTORICAL-POLITICAL PHASES OF
THE CITY OF ATHENS. THE WARS AGAINST THE PERSIANS. EVOLUTION OF
THE ACROPOLIS AND THE MAIN MONUMENTS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF
ARCHITECTURE IN THE LATE CLASSICAL AGE. THE ARCHITECTURE OF
HELLENISM. THE NEW GREEK WORLD. CITIES OF THE HELLENISTIC
WORLD; URBAN STRUCTURE: THE MAIN ARCHITECTURE WORKS. THE
HELLENISTIC SANCTUARIES.
ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. THE DIRECTOR AND REPUBLICAN PHASE. A NEW
CITY BETWEEN ETRUSCANS, LATINES AND Greeks. THE ORIGINS OF
ROME. THE REPUBLICAN AGE. THE REPUBLICAN EXPANSION OF ROME.
THE GREAT TERRITORIAL INFRASTRUCTURE: ROADS AND BRIDGES.
CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES: OPUS CÆMENTICIUM. ROMAN COLONIAL
URBAN PLANNING: THE SCHEME OF THE CASTRUM AND THE CITY OF
FOUNDATION. PUBLIC CIVIL BUILDING. HOUSING BUILDING. The
residential types. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE. LATIAL
SANCTUARIES.
THE IMPERIAL PHASE. THE "TARDO ANTICO".EARLY CHRISTIAN
ARCHITECTURE. JERUSALEM: BASILICA OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER. THE
DIFFUSION OF CHRISTIANITY. THE DOMUS ECCLESIAE, THE COLOMBARS
AND THE CATACOMBS. CONSTANTINIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ROME. THE
TYPES OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE: THE BASILICA. POST
CONSTANTINIAN ARCHITECTURE. THE SISTINE RENAISSANCE. THE
PALEOCRISTIAN FAR FROM ROME: TREVIRI, MILAN.
BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE. THE DIVISION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, THE
BIRTH OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE OF THE EAST. THE CENTERS OF
ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION: CONSTANTINOPLE, RAVENNA. TO
CHARACTERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND CAROLINGIAN ARCHITECTURE.
ARCHITECTURE: the transition from the Early Christian to the Early Middle
Ages. CAROLINGIAN ARCHITECTURE.
ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE. THE ROMANIC CHURCH: ARCHITECTURAL,
STATIC, CONSTRUCTIVE AND SPIRITUAL CHARACTERS. THE BENEDICTINE
ORDER AND THE CLUNIAN REFORM. ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY.
THE AGE OF ROMANESQUE IN ITALY: HISTORICAL CHARACTERS. THE
NORTH: LOMBARDY, VENETO, EMILIA. CENTRAL ITALY: TUSCANY:
FLORENCE, PISA, MONTECASSINO, ABRUZZO. THE SOUTH: CAMPANIA.
PUGLIA. CALABRIA. SICILIA.GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. 13TH AND 14TH
CENTURY ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY. CHARACTERS OF GOTHIC
ARCHITECTURE. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ROMANIC CHURCH INTO
A CHURCH. GOTHIC: PRINCIPLES AND STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS.
CHARACTERIZING ELEMENTS OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. GOTHIC IN
FRANCE. THE PROTO-GOTHIC (1140-1180 ca.). THE "CLASSIC" GOTHIC
(1195-1225). THE GOTHIC “RAYONNANT” (“radiant”) or “COURT STYLE”.
13TH AND 14TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY. THE CHARACTERS OF
THE ITALIAN TWO CENTURY ARCHITECTURE. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE
CISTERCENSES. THE ARCHITECTURE OF BEGGARING ORDERS. THE
FRANCISCAN ORDER. THE DOMINICAN ORDER (OF PREDICATORY FRIARS).
THE CHARACTERS OF ITALIAN FOURTEENTH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE.
CHARACTERS OF ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE OF THE SECOND 14TH
CENTURY.
ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE. THE FOURTH CENTURY.
PRINCIPLES OF THE RENAISSANCE. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE
RENAISSANCE. THE GREAT FIGURES OF THE FOURTH CENTURY. FILIPPO
BRUNELLESCHI. LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI. THE FOURTH CENTURY IN
TUSCANY AND IN THE REST OF ITALY. THE FOURTH CENTURY IN
TUSCANY. THE DIFFUSION OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN
FOURTEENTH CENTURY ITALY. LOMBARDY IN THE LATE FOURTH
CENTURY. VENICE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY. ROME IN THE FOURTH
CENTURY. NAPLES IN THE FOURTH CENTURY. THE CITY OF THE
RENAISSANCE. THE CITY OF THE RENAISSANCE. THEORETICAL
ELABORATIONS. THE REALIZATIONS: URBINO, PIENZA, FERRARA,
VIGEVANO.