HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2

Segment

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI636

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Divisions:

Gruppo B

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in ARCHITECTURE

Disciplinary Sector:

History of Architecture

Is part of:

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

GIANNANTONIO Raffaele

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

120

Prerequisites:

Being it the second exam concerning History of Architecture, knowledge of the topics of the Course of History of Architecture I is required.

Objectives

The goal of the course is to train the reference knowledge and the critical conscience of the student.

Contents

History, theories and architectural experiences in Italy and in Europe from the Greek age until the fifteenth century, discussing the main figures and the main works planned and/or realized.

Extended Syllabus

ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE. GREEK ARCHITECTURE. Greek civilization. General characteristics of architecture. Birth and development of the polis. The architecture of the sanctuaries. The Greek temple: the origin and evolution, the typological classifications. Architectural orders. The trilithic system and the problems of the construction site. THE ARCHAIC PHASE. DORIC ARCHITECTURE IN GREECE AND IN THE COLONIES: Syracuse, Selinunte, Agrigento, Segesta, Poseidonia (Pæstum) and Campania. THE CLASSICAL GREEK ARCHITECTURE: The temple of Aphaia in Aegina; the Acropolis of Athens. New trends in Arcadia: the temple of Apollo Epicurio in Bassae. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE. Open spaces and public facilities. The theater: birth and evolution of the type. The HELLENISM. Historical and cultural conditions. Urban realities: Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon. The evolution of public structures. Hellenistic theater: Pergamon, Ephesus. Sacred architecture; funerary and votive architecture.
ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. The historical framework. The political and social structure. Construction techniques. Residential building: the domus, the insula. Buildings and civil equipment: basilicas, libraries, theaters, amphitheaters, spas. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE DIRECT AND REPUBLICAN AGE: large urban works and temples. The Forum: birth and development. THE REPUBLICAN PHASE: religious and functional works. REPUBLICAN ARCHITECTURE IN ROMAN ITALY (III-I century BC). The great sanctuaries: Præneste, Tivoli, Terracina, Sulmona. THE IMPERIAL AGE. The architecture of the age of Hadrian: the Pantheon, Villa Adriana in Tivoli. LATE ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. The late imperial age and the evolution of spatial conception. PALEOCHRISTAN ARCHITECTURE. Birth and development of types: the basilica, the martyrium, the baptistery. ROME. Constantinian architecture. Post-Constantinian architecture: the great foundations and the "minor" basilicas. The central plan buildings: S. Costanza, Lateran Baptistery.
BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE. Historical framework and general features of the architecture. ISTANBUL: the age of Justinian and St. Sofia. RAVENNA BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE EAST. The transfer of the imperial residence, the Ostrogothic kingdom, the Byzantines: the basilicas, S. Vitale.
THE MIDDLE AGES. CAROLINGIA ARCHITECTURE. Charlemagne and the Franks. ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE. The Romanesque age. The architecture of the Romanesque: structural, typological and compositional characters. Romanesque architecture in Italy: the Padana area, the Tuscan area, Abruzzo, Venice between East and West, Puglia, Norman architecture and Arab culture in Sicily.
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. Design criteria, construction principles, spatial relationships and architectural elements. France: Primitive Gothic, "Classical" Gothic and Radiant Gothic.
ARCHITECTURE OF DUECENTO E TRECENTO IN ITALY. Religious orders: critical thinking and aesthetic theories. The great examples of the architecture of the orders: Cistercian architecture; Franciscan and Dominican architecture. Conventual settlements and urban churches. The great cathedrals. The civil works: Florence, Siena, Venice, Castel del Monte.
RENAISSANCE. The fifteenth century. The historical-political framework. The Renaissance courts. The definition of the concept. Humanism and the culture of the Renaissance. The figure of the architect. Perspective as a tool for space control and project prefiguration. The theory of proportions. The architectural order. The controversy against the Gothic. The relationship with the ancient: the rediscovery of Vitruvius. The module as a spatial system. The main themes: central / longitudinal plan, the façade. FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI: Competition of 1401 for the panels of the Baptistery of Florence, Cupola di s. Maria del Fiore, hospital of the Innocents, sacristy "Vecchia" of s. Lorenzo, Pazzi chapel, church of s. Spirit. LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI. FLORENCE: the works for Giovanni Rucellai: palace; façade of s. Maria Novella. RIMINI AND SIGISMONDO MALATESTA: Tempio Malatestiano. MANTOVA AND LUDOVICO GONZAGA: s. Sebastiano, s. Andrew. TUSCANY IN THE QUATTROCENTO: THE POST-BRUNELLESCHIANE CURRENTS. Michelozzo di Bartolomeo: Palazzo Medici. Bernardo Rossellino: Pienza. Giuliano da Sangallo: S. Maria delle Carceri in Prato, Villa Medici in Poggio a Caiano. Francesco di Giorgio Martini: Treaty of architecture, engineering and military art, cathedral of Urbino, S. Bernardino in Urbino; S. Maria delle Grazie to Calcinaio in Cortona, Rocca Ubaldesca of Sassocorvaro. The Ducal Palace of Urbino.
THE DIFFUSION OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY. Milan; Bramante: S. Maria presso S. Satiro, tribune of S. Maria delle Grazie; Filarete: Sforzinda, Ospedale Maggiore. Venice; Mauro Codussi: S. Michele in Isola. Umbria: S. Maria della Consolazione in Todi. Rome; S. Maria del Popolo; Palazzo della Cancelleria. Naples: Arco di Castelnuovo; Giuliano da Maiano: villa of Poggio Reale.
Further specifications will be provided to the students during the course in the various detailed programs drawn up at the end of each historical period.

Recommended Bibliography

Basic texts
From Greek architecture to Byzantine: C. BOZZONI, V. FRANCHETTI PARDO, G. ORTOLANI, A. VISCOGLIOSI, L’architettura del mondo antico, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006.
Medieval architecture
R. BONELLI, C. BOZZONI, V. FRANCHETTI PARDO, Storia dell’architettura medievale, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.
15th century architecture
C. L. FROMMEL, Architettura del Rinascimento italiano, Skira, Milano 2009.
Insights
R. MARTIN, Architettura Greca, Electa, Milano 1980.
J. B. WARD PERKINS, Architettura romana, Electa, Milano 1984.
J. P. ADAM, L’arte di costruire presso i Romani. Materiali e tecniche, Longanesi & C., Milano 2003.
R. KRAUTHEIMER, Architettura paleocristiana e bizantina, Einaudi, Torino 1986.
E. ADAM, Preromanico e Romanico, Gorlich, Milano 1973.
H. E. KUBACH, Architettura Romanica, Electa, Milano 1978.
L. GRODECKI, Architettura Gotica, Electa, Milano 1978.
P. MURRAY, Architettura del Rinascimento, Electa, Milano1989.
L BENEVOLO, Storia dell’architettura del Rinascimento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017.
To support the lessons, the students of the Course can find and download all the ordinary didactic material (program, bibliography) and supplementary (from time to time produced), on facebook group and on the dropbox folder that will be activated at the beginning of the Course. The students can communicate in real time with the teacher and his collaborators.

Teaching Methods

There will be lectures supplemented by exercises in the classroom and out in the open. The students will have the opportunity to meet with the teacher through direct contact in the classroom and at student-teacher conference time as well as on line.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The exam will take place at the end of course through an interview in which the student will be asked if he has learned the basics imparted by the teacher. A constant and preliminary verification will consist in classroom exercises.

Contacts/More Information

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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