HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
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- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- MARCO MULAZZANI
- Credits
- 9
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
Training objectives
- The course aims to provide useful tools to introduce students to the history of Contemporary Architecture, in a chronological period between the mid-Eighteenth Century and the present day, in the International scene. The method offers a chronological and thematic map of events and experiences of the major protagonists and of their main works, analyzed crossing the points of view of spatial composition, structural and formal. During the development of the course, a constant attention is given to the historical context in which lie the architectural and artistic events, to make the students understanding the need for a critical cognitive vision of the issues under study.
Expectations skills concern first to introduce students to a methodology and a historical view; then to the development of a character, of its own reading skills and its understanding of projects and works of architecture; the ability to compare architectures made by different actors in the same period and / or belonging to different historical times, recognizing genealogies, similarities and differences. Prerequisites
- It is useful for students the knowledge, even general, of the political and social history in the contemporary age, about the geographical areas considered during the course; and an understanding of the meaning and use of bibliographic tools.
Course programme
- The course of History of contemporary architecture consists of a main contemporary architectural history module (70 hours), complemented by a contemporary art history module (20 hours). The aim of the course is to deepen some issues of its artistic and architectural research of the contemporary age; on this purpose, they are been identified in some periods of art history lessons and in contexts of special interest for the intertwining of these experiences.
Course topics (in general, each topic listed coincides with a 2 hour lecture).
History of contemporary architecture:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi and the Eighteenth Century crisis. Architecture in England in the age of the Industrial Revolution: from John Soane to William Morris - Architects "revolutionaries" in France in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century: Etienne-Louis Boullée, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux – "Neoclassical" architecture in Berlin and Monaco in the nineteenth century: Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Leo von Klenze – Otto Wagner and Vienna between the Nineteenth and Twentieth century – "Art Nouveau" in Europe in the early Twentieth century: Josef Olbrich and Henri Van de Velde – Adolf Loos “outdated” –Architecture in America: Louis H . Sullivan and the Chicago school – The American city and the development of the skyscraper – Modernism in Catalonia and Antoni Gaudí – Hendrik Petrus Berlage and the Dutch modern architecture – Auguste Perret and the reinforced concrete – Peter Behrens and the Werkbund – Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus – Architecture in Germany 1919-1939 – Frank Lloyd Wright: from the "prairie houses" to California; Frank Lloyd Wright: from Broadacre City to the Guggenheim Museum in New York – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Berlin; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in America – Le Corbusier: from his beginnings in La Chaux de Fonds to Algiers plan; Le Corbusier: dall'Unité d'habitation in Marseilles to the Capitol in Chandigarh – The "Nordic Classicism" and the experience of Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz in Sweden – The Italian architecture between the two World Wars – Giuseppe Terragni, Luigi Moretti, Adalberto Libera – The post-war reconstruction in Italy and the experience of Ina-Casa – Pier Luigi Nervi and engineering in Italy – Franco Albini and the "Italian museum" – Carlo Scarpa – Alvar Aalto – Sverre Fehn – Louis I. Kahn – James Stirling – Aldo Rossi ¬– Renzo Piano – Ancient and Contemporary architecture in Japan – Contemporary architecture in Portugal: Fernando Távora, Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura.
History of Contemporary Art.
The contents are been selected in relation to significant events in the history of architecture. Vienna in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century – European Avant-garde – Italian Art 1900-1950 – Europe-America: the Fifties and Sixties of the Twentieth Century. Didactic methods
- The course consists of “ex cathedra” lessons on each of the topics listed in the program. The Contemporary Art History lessons are included in the teaching calendar in relation to dealing with similar topics and / or historical periods in the history of contemporary architecture classes. No contemplated collective exercises; individual signs for the deepening of the study program can be provided during the hours devoted to the students reception.
Learning assessment procedures
- Assessment of the achievement of the training objectives mentioned above verified by an exam in two parts: the first is a conversation on the subjects of Contemporary Art History covered in the course, the second a conversation to the topics of Contemporary Architecture History. In both interviews, the candidate is required to display knowledge and the skills acquired in the study of one of the themes treated during the lessons; the theme, chosen by the candidate in advance and agreed with the teachers, must be deepened through the supplementary bibliography indicated by the teachers. This part of the test is of paramount importance to assess the applicant's ability to critically defining the subject chosen as a topic for discussion. In both interviews, after the exposure the subjects chosen by the candidate for the study, a number of questions designed to test the general knowledge of the topics covered in class and the bibliography indicated by the teachers.
The positive outcome of the Art History interview is a necessary condition for proceeding with the architectural history interview. The final grade obtained by the candidate is the result of the outcomes of the two tests and a professor of History of Architecture assigns it. Reference texts
- History of Architecture:
Manfredo Tafuri, Francesco Dal Co, Architettura contemporanea, Electa, Milano 1976.
History of Art:
Mario De Micheli, Le avanguardie artistiche del Novecento, Feltrinelli, Milano 2000.
In addition, for both modules, they are useful lecture notes.
A supplementary bibliography of reference texts and in-depth bibliography needed to deal with the deepening of the individual topics covered in the course is available on the teacher's website.
