2021/2022

2021/2022

DM270

ICAR/18 (HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE)

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

(27/09/2021 - 21/01/2022)

9

80 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

TOLOMELLI DAVIDE - 9 ECTS

General background of European history, geography and Literature

The course is meant to give a basic knowledge of the Ancient and modern history of European Architecture (since Ancient Greece to XVIII Century) and aims at developing competencies in the analysis of the most relevant buildings, as a fundamental tool for the project activity

Main topics:
the birth of architecture; architecture and urban planning; space and its meanings; architecture as a language; architecture and geometry; proportions; perspective; architecture and colors; techniques and materials; architecture as a symbol; training for architects and patronage; architecture and theory of architecture; treatises from Vitruvius to XVIII Century.

History of architecture:
Greek and Roman Architecture; Paleochristian and Bizantine architecture; The Longobardian and the age of Charlemagne; The Medieval age: Romanesque, Gothic and late Gothic architecture; The first Renaissance: Brunelleschi and Alberti; The ideal city: Pienza and Urbino; typologies of Renaissance: Francesco di Giorgio, Filarete; Bramante and Leonardo in Milan; Architecture in Rome: Bramante, Raffaello; Michelangelo; Antonio da Sangallo; Baldassarre Peruzzi; Giulio Romano; Sebastiano Serlio; The second half of the century: Vignola, Palladio and Tibaldi; Roman Baroque; Bernini, Borromini, Pietro da Cortona; Baroque out of Rome: Turin and Venice. The first part of the XVIII Century: Iuvarra; Great European Palaces; Versailles and Caserta; Neoclassical Age in Italy and in Europe.

Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 80
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 40

GENERAL HANDBOOK
Giulio Bora, Gianfranco Fiaccadori, Antonello Negri, I luoghi dell’arte, Electa scuola, voll. 1-4 (limitatamente alle parti introduttive e a tutte le schede e i capitoli su architetti e opere architettoniche)

HANDBOOK OF HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
David Watkin, Storia dell'archittura occidentale, Zanichelli, capp. 2-7 (included)

Further readings will be discussed during the lessons.

The final oral test will cover the entire syllabus.
papers and essays prepared during practical class may be considered in final evaluation

The final oral test will cover the entire syllabus.
papers and essays prepared during practical class may be considered in final evaluation