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 the classroom, conferences and seminars, discussions entrusted to groups of students, are aimed at proposing a method of reading and analyzing the most significant examples of contemporary architecture, with some focus on Genova.
The course aims to present an overview of the main topics in the history of contemporary architecture, from Art Nouveau to the latest trends in High Tech and Deconstructivism.
Furthermore, if the conditions relating to the number of students and the general pandemic situation, an educational research activity is envisaged, developed by groups of students who, after having chosen a topic - in agreement with the teacher, who will provide the relative bibliography - will be required to present a historical-critical report to the class, followed by a discussion with the teacher.
William J. R. Curtis, Modern Architecture since 1900, Phaidon 2002 (1982)
Kenneth Frampton, Modern architecture. A critical History, Thames & Hudson 2007 (1980)
Further specific bibliographic indications will be provided for each lesson.
STEFANO ANDREA POLI (President)
LORENZO FECCHIO
ALIREZA NASER ESLAMI
2021/10/05
