This course outlines the history of contemporary architecture, focusing on the major architects, movements, buildings, and urban projects of the Twentieth century.
This course provides students with a rigorous methodology to comprehend and analyze architectural spaces through proper historical training, as well as the ability to interpret architecture in all its various aspects -tectonic-spatial, material, stylistic, symbolic, functional, urban, as well as in combination with other expressive fields (decorative elements, sculptures, paintings). The act of analyzing and examining a piece of architecture also means relating it to other pieces of architecture, looking for connections, associations, inspirations and developments, not only within the same time frame, but also throughout history. In other words, this course aims to develop students' ability to compare and interpret architecture.
This course aims to introduce students to a systematic understanding of the history of contemporary architecture through a critical-interpretative analysis of the most emblematic figures and movements of modern architecture.
Lectures (in person and online).
William J. R. Curtis, L’architettura moderna del Novecento, Milano 1999 / William J.R. Curtis, L'architettura moderna dal 1900, London 2006.
Kenneth Frampton, Storia dell’architettura moderna, Bologna 2008.
Elena Dellapiana, Guido Montanari, Una storia dell'architettura contemporanea, Novara 2021.
Colin Davies, A New History of Modern Architecture, London 2017.
Josep Maria Montaner, Dopo il movimento moderno, Roma 2008.
Further reading on specific topics will be provided at the end of each lesson.
LORENZO FECCHIO (President)
ALIREZA NASER ESLAMI
STEFANO ANDREA POLI
https://corsi.unige.it/9274/p/studenti-orario
An interview. The details will be discussed during the course.
