OVERVIEW

The teaching will follow a path of reading and analysis of architecture from the medieval to the contemporary age, focusing on the most significant works from the point of view of architectural language, constructional features and relationships with the relevant contexts (territorial, historical, artistic, patronage).

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The objective of the teaching will be to provide the necessary tools - both from the point of view of methodology and from that of criticism - for a correct reading of architectural space, considered in its relations with the historical-artistic context and with that of the client, with particular attention to the Genoese case.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching will provide the student with the tools necessary to conduct an independent analysis of the architectural and urban artifact, considering it in its place in the cultural and territorial context of reference. both from the point of view of architectural forms and from that of techniques, materials and function, with particular reference to the stages of design and execution, the use of models and treatises and the figure of the architect. Special attention will also be paid to the critical context of reference of the works and periods analyzed.

PREREQUISITES

A knowledge of medieval, modern and contemporary art history acquired while attending the three-year degree program in Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (or related degree programs) is essential for successful completion of the course.

TEACHING METHODS

Teaching will include lessons with PowerPoint presentation, discussion with students on the topics covered, and exercises in reading architectural space.

Classes are held in person. Attendance, although not compulsory, is recommended. The lecturer, at the specific request of a student (by e-mail), may allow him/her to follow classes remotely via “Teams” platform and to view class recordings.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Introduction to architectural vocabulary; introduction to reading a work of architecture and architectural drawing: function, construction, form; brief remarks on composition, use and meaning of architectural orders; early Christian and Byzantine architecture: Rome, Constantinople, Milan, Ravenna, Venice, Sicily; Carolingian and Romanesque outcomes in Europe and Italy; the Gothic experiment: Abbot Suger and Saint Denis, l'Ile de France, Chartres; the mature Gothic: Reims, Amiens, Beauvais and Bourges; Gothic rayonnant and Gothic flamboyant; Gothic in Italy; the 15th century: from Florentine Humanism to the ideal city; Brunelleschi in Florence; Leon Battista Alberti treatise writer and architect in Rimini, Florence, Mantua; investigating and restoring space: perspective; fifteenth-fifteenth-century architectural treatises and the debate on the Vitruvian text; other centers of the Renaissance: Pienza, Urbino; Lombard experiences in the late fifteenth century; the early sixteenth century in Rome: Bramante; the theme of the villa and palace in the sixteenth century: the Genoese case; Michelangelo's work from Medici patronage in Florence to Roman interventions; the site of St. Peter's from the early Christian age to Marcello Piacentini; Baroque Rome: Bernini, Borromini, Pietro da Cortona; Baroque and Rococo in Europe; 18th-century classicism: Piranesi, Soufflot, de Wailly, Boullée, Ledoux; the 19th century in Europe: eclecticism and engineering; Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau; Europe and the USA in the first half of the 20th century: Wright, Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe; Modernism and Postmodernism; the latest trends in museum architecture.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

They constitute study aids for preparation:

A) FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS
1) contents of the lessons (all material projected and analyzed in class will be provided via AULAWEB platform)
2) The candidate should prepare the topics covered in the reference textbook:

- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Il Cricco Di Teodoro. Itinerario nell'arte, versione gialla, latest edition or any reprints (vol. 2 Dall'arte paleocristiana a Giotto, vol. 3 Dal Gotico internazionale al Manierismo, vol. 4 Dal Barocco al Postimpressionismo, vol. 5 Dall'Art Nouveau ai giorni nostri) (to be considered for the parts dealing with the topics of architecture and urban planning).

Students who have attended at least 2/3 of the lessons may use, as an alternative to the above textbook and to be considered only for the topics covered in class, supplementing it with notes, the text:

- D. Watkin, Storia dell’architettura occidentale, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2019 (latest edition or any reprints ) (the text is also available in English: D. Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, London, Laurence King Pub, 2011).

3) In addition to the contents of the lessons and in addition to the above, the student must report on the reading of one of the following in-depth texts (one to be chosen from the following three) in the examination:

- C. Tosco, L'architettura medievale in Italia 600-1200, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016

- C. L. Frommel, Architettura del rinascimento italiano, Milano, Skira, 2009 (the text is also available in English: C. L. Frommel, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance, London, Thames & Hudson, 2007).

- G. Montanari, E. Dellapiana, Una storia dell'architettura contemporanea, Torino, UTET Università, 2015 (Ch. 1 to ch. 14 inclusive).

The list of texts may be subject to change, so it is advisable, before purchasing or borrowing, to wait until the start of the lectures and the lecturer's presentation of the syllabus. Additional in-depth bibliography, if any, will be provided by the lecturer during the lectures.

B) FOR NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
The candidate should prepare the topics covered in the following textbook:

- G. Cricco, F. P. Di Teodoro, Il Cricco Di Teodoro. Itinerario nell'arte, versione gialla, latest edition or any reprints (vol. 2 Dall'arte paleocristiana a Giotto, vol. 3 Dal Gotico internazionale al Manierismo, vol. 4 Dal Barocco al Postimpressionismo, vol. 5 Dall'Art Nouveau ai giorni nostri) (to be considered for the parts dealing with the topics of architecture and urban planning).

In addition to the above, the student must report on the reading of one of the following background texts (one to be chosen from the following three) in the examination:

- C. Tosco, L'architettura medievale in Italia 600-1200, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016

- C. L. Frommel, Architettura del rinascimento italiano, Milano, Skira, 2009 (the text is also available in English: C. L. Frommel, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance, London, Thames & Hudson, 2007).

- G. Montanari, E. Dellapiana, Una storia dell'architettura contemporanea, Torino, UTET Università, 2015 (Ch. 1 to ch. 14 inclusive).

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

SARA RULLI (President)

MATTEO CAPURRO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Lessons will begin in February 2023

Class schedule

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE CONTEMPORARY AGE

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral examination in the form of an interview aimed at verifying the learning of the content covered in the course and the acquisition of a methodology for reading the architectural and urban artifact. It is planned to comment on images contained in the indicated study and reading texts and images shown in class, which will be made available on the Aulaweb platform in PowerPoint format at the end of the course.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Each answer corresponding to the commentary on the proposed works, from the ability to contextualize them and from the discussion of the readings addressed, will be assigned a valuation from 18 to 30 cum laude; the final valuation will be the average of the evaluations of the individual answers.

Exam schedule