73700 - History Of Architecture 1

Learning outcomes

The course aims at teaching methods and tools to analyze and understand architectural buildings and spaces, from the Ancient times to the Baroque age, with particular attention to: relationships between forms and structures; building materials and techniques; aims of the clients and the architects; connections with previous and contemporary architectures. 

Course contents

The course consists in lessons and exercises.

The lessons program will analyze the most significant architectures and monuments of Western architecture since Ancient times to the Baroque age, paying attention in particular to the following items:

Ancient times:
1) Origins of Greek architecture. Creta and Micene. The Archaic age and the Magna Grecia. The architectural orders. Sacred architecture: the temple.
2) Greek architecture: Classical and post Classical age. Atene, the Peloponneso and the Ionia. Public and private civil architectures. Space organization and monumental complexes.
3) The Hellenistic age in the Mediterranian world. Formal and typological innovations. The cities in the Hellenistic world.
4) Roman architecture in the Republican age. Spaces, buildings, building techniques.
5) Roman architecture in the Imperial age. Public monuments and residential buildings (domus, villae and  palatia).
6) Late Ancient age. The early Christian architectures. The Byzantine architecture. 

Medieval age in Italy and Europe:
7) Carolingian architecture.
8) Romanesque architecture in Italy and Europe. Forms, typologies and structures. Romanesque churches, abbeys and monastries.
9) Early Gothic architecture in France. Forms, typologies and structures. Gothic architecture spreading throughout Europe.
10) Architecture in Italy in 13th and 14th century.
11) Architecture in late Medieval age. New perspectives and innovations in Italy between 14th and 15th century.

Reinassance and Baroque ages in Italy:
12) Filippo Brunelleschi: forms and building techniques in the Florentine architectures. The birth of modern buildign site: building the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore.
13) Leon Battista Alberti between theory and practice of architecture. The De Re Aedificatoria. Architectures in Reinassance courts: Rome, Florence, Mantova, Rimini.
14) Cities between 15th and 16th century: Rome, Pienza, Urbino, Ferrara.
15) The revival of "all'antica" architecture in Rome: Donato Bramante and Raffaello Sanzio. The building of the new St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican.
16) Early 16th century architecture in the Italian courts: Antonio da Sangallo teh Younger, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Jacopo Sansovino, Giulio Romano.
17) Michelangelo Buonarroti architect in Rome and Florence.
18) Architectural theory and practice treatises, from Sebastiano Serlio to Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola.
19) Andrea Palladio. The Quattro Libri dell'Architettura. Architectures in Veneto: churches, villas, palaces.
20) Early Baroque age in Rome: architectures of Pietro da Cortona, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini.

Readings/Bibliography

The bibliography about single topics will be communicated during the lessons. General rrecommended readings are:

C. Bozzoni, V. Franchetti Pardo, G. Ortolani, A. Viscogliosi, L'architettura del mondo antico, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006

R. Bonelli, C. Bozzoni, V. Franchetti Pardo, Storia dell'architettura medievale: l'Occidente europeo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012

Storia dell'architettura italiana. Il Quattrocento; Il primo Cinquecento; Il secondo Cinquecento. Electa, Milano 1998-2002: chapters on the topics in the course program

R. Wittkower, Arte e architettura in Italia 1600-1750, Einaudi, Torino 2008

Teaching methods

Lessons will take place in lecture rooms, showing slides and images and analyzing the suggested topics paying attention to architectural forms, building typologies and techniques; exercises will consist in visits to some of the analyzed architectures as well as in examinations of single buildings or complexes. During lessons and exercises the student will be invited to analyze and discuss the proposed items, learnig to critically analyze architectures as well as relationships between forms and building techniques.

Assessment methods

The final exam will consist in an interwiew to the student in order to evaluate their knowledges about the program's topics, considering their attendance at lessons and exercises and the critical ability achieved. The evaluation will consider both the final exam's and the exercices' results.

Teaching tools

Lessons in lecture rooms will take place showing slides and images specifically prepared by the professor, which will be given to the students; exercises will consist in visits to some of the analyzed architectures as well as in examinations of single buildings or complexes.

Links to further information

http://www.unibo.it/docenti/micaela.antonucci

Office hours

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