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History of Architecture
REGGIO DI CALABRIA
Overview
Date/time interval
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The achievement of adequate knowledge of architectural history and architectural treatises
Course Prerequisites
Must have passed the exam in History of Ancient and Medieval Architecture as required by art. 19 of the Teaching Regulations.
Teaching Methods
TYPE OF TRAINING ACTIVITIES
Lessons: 80 hours, first semester
Training activity calendar: first semester
STUDENT INDEPENDENT WORK
- In-depth study/study of the bibliography (theoretical part) 5
- Test preparation (experimental) 85
- Exam preparation 30
Assessment Methods
Midterm tests are scheduled during the training period. They may consist of an oral or written test lasting two hours, with free-response or multiple-choice questions, which will take place approximately from October 26th to 30th and from January 8th to 12th, 2025.
Texts
D. Watkin, Storia dell’Architettura Occidentale, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2007
(terza edizione), pp. 185-440.
P. Murray, L'architettura del Rinascimento italiano. Editore Laterza
R. Wittkower, Arte e architettura in Italia. 1600-1750, Torino Einaudi, 1993 (I ed. inglese 1958) [escluse le parti specialistiche di pittura e scultura)
Christian Norberg-Schulz, Architettura Barocca, Electa 2008
D. Wathin Storia dell'Architettura Occidentale, Zanichelli, 2005 (Capp. 7- 9)
Contents
1_DESCRIPTION
The teaching aims to provide students with the knowledge and tools for the interpretation and critical analysis of Italian and European architecture from the 15th century to the end of the 19th century through the parallel study of general evolutionary processes and the most significant paradigmatic aspects concerning cultural movements, individual personalities and works. In this context, the evolution and transformation of architectural language will be analyzed in close relation to art-historical, technical and urban culture. Teaching objectives are: to develop skills for reflection on the meaning of architecture in the historical context of the time; to provide methodological tools for in-depth analysis of the sources and architectural works addressed. The achievement of these objectives allows the student to have a solid preparation on the important and fundamental periods of the History of Architecture and to have the basis for a possible subsequent in-depth study of similar situations.
2_COURSE PROGRAMME
Renaissance. Florence and Filippo Brunelleschi. Palaces and town planning: Pienza, Urbino, Florence and Ferrara. Leon Battista Alberti, Philerete and Leonardo, Donato Bramante, Raphael, Baldassare Peruzzi and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Giulio Romano, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Verona and Venice: Sansovino and Sanmicheli, Iacopo Barozzi known as the Vignola, Andrea Palladio, Sebastiano Serlio, and the 16th-century treatise writers.
The early seventeenth century: the legacy of the sixteenth century. Rome: from Sixtus V to Paul V. The Council of Trent in artistic and architectural conceptions Paul V and Cardinal Scipione Borghese: patronage, architecture and the city. Churches and palaces: typologies and language. Rome: Carlo Maderno
The age of the Baroque: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, Pietro da Cortona.
The seventeenth century in Italy. Rome: Carlo Rainaldi, Martino Longhi il Giovane, Vincenzo della Greca, Antonio del Grande and Giovanni Antonio de' Rossi. Venice: Baldassarre Longhena; Florence and Naples: Silvani and Fanzago.
The first half of the 18th century in Italy, Classicism, late classicism and rococo Rome: from Carlo Fontana to Ferdinando Fuga and Luigi Vanvitelli. Piedmont: Guarino Guarini, Filippo Juvarra, Bernardo Vittone, Naples and Sicily.
Classicism, Baroque and Rococo in the rest of Europe-France: the Rococo. Austria, Germany and Bohemia: Fischer von Erlach, Hildebrandt, Santini Nichel, the Dientzenhofer, Neumann and Asam. England: Wren, Talman, Vanbrugh, Haksmoor, Archer and Gibbs Spain and Portugal. Urbanism: the influence of Rome; Versailles; the place royale; Christopher Wren's London; building regulations between practice and codification.
Origins and development of Neoclassicism in the 18th century. The influence of Rome: Lord Burlington and William Kent, Piranesi, William Chambers, Robert Adam, George Dance the younger, Giacomo Quarenghi, John Soane. The origins of Neoclassicism in France: Soufflot and St. Geneviève, Peyre and de Wailly, Ledoux.
The Neoclassical tradition in the rest of Europe: Italy, Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, Russia.
United States: Thomas Jefferson, Bulfinch and Latrobe. Urbanism: the contribution of the French Enlightenment; theory and practice in London; Bath, Dublin, Edinburgh; St. Petersburg and Lisbon; North America.
The 19th century. France. The rationalist tradition from Percier to Fontaine to Viollet-le DucFrom the Second Empire to the 1900 Paris Exposition. Britain. The Regency period and the early Victorian age The Gothic Revival, Shaw and the late Victorian period. Germany, Austria and Italy, Schinkel and Klenze, Gartner and Semper in
Art Nouveau: Belgium and France; Scotland and England; Germany, Austria and Italy; Spain
3_EXPECTED RESULTS
To know the specialized terminology of the architectures addressed. To know how to make an in-depth analysis on each architectural work. To know how to correctly use specialized terminology in all processes of application and communication of acquired knowledge and to be able to formulate and argue simple hypotheses, also developing a critical approach to the evaluation of open issues discussed in class. To know how to communicate the specifics of art-historical and architectural reflection, using appropriate terminology and to know how to structure, organize the exposition of one's thinking regarding the topics of study. Know how to critically consult the reference bibliography provided for the course and in lecture and the bibliography contained therein.
More information
Working students who are unable to attend the course are asked to come to the office hours for clarification on the program they are studying and are advised to participate at least in the midterm tests.