History of Architecture is an organised concept by a critical point of wiew of all design matters: buinding design, urban planning, landascape planning, technology, industrial design, restoration of monuments. It comtemplates social, economic and managing parameters too.
The course aims to critically analyze training and planning processes that are the basis of building construction, urban renewal, landscape planning and restoration of monumenti from the Industrial Revoltion's Age to the XXI century, with particular attention to the linguistic construction, the effects of ideological transmission, representation of patronage, management.The study of architectural history includes religious architecture, landscape architecture, civil architecture, naval architecture, and military architecture – each offering insight into the role of history, culture, and geography in shaping the world around us. An understanding of Architecture’s history can help those in the field execute better.
By the end of this course students will: know the general outline of the history of contemporary architecture; recognize, historically contextualize and critically evaluate the major archietcts and buildings from industrial Revolution to XXI century; know the formal and constructive aspects of the works considered, know how to connect architecture with other art and technical disciplines
Knowledge of general contemporary history and cultural aotilnes according to UE secondary School standards.
Lectures (by historical-critical, formalist, sociological and iconological methods), workshops and cooperative-working.
From Industrial Revolution to Post-Second War period (50/60 decades in XX c.). For complete contents see the two handbooks in bibliography.
K. FRAMPTON, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Bologna 2008 (pp. 2-236, 264-292).
M. SPESSO, L’architettura italiana nel Movimento Moderno, Limena 2017.
Ricevimento: Second semester: by appointment, email: marco.spesso@unige.it
MARCO SPESSO (President)
MARCO FOLIN
See official DAD's calendar of first semester
Written and oral examination: attending and not-attending students are required to demonstrate that they have achieved a critical knowledge of the topics treated during the course, the bibliography and the architectures of the period dealt with. The analysis shall not be limited to the formal aspects of individual works; students are expected to break down the architectures, showing their understanding of all the aspects related to the central topics of the course and the aesthetic and formal reasons that guided certain architectural choices.exam. Written examination: open-endend questions; oral examination: discussion about answers
It will be assessed as excellent the performance of those students achieving an organic vision of the course contents, the use of a proper specific language, originality of reflection and familiarity with the tools of architecture analyze. It will be assessed as discrete the performance of those students showing mostly mechanical or mnemonic knowledge of the subject, disarticulated synthesis and analysis capabilities, or a correct but not always appropriate language, as well as a scholastic study of musical architecture analyze. It will be assessed as barely sufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, lack of knowledge of the tools of architecture analyze. It will be assessed as insufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, no orientation within the recommended bibliography and inability to analyze the architectural work.
