HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 1

Segment

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI635

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2022/2023

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 1

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

FIADINO Filomena Adelina

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

120

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites:
None required

Objectives

The course has the objectives of:
- provide tools for the historical-critical analysis of the transformations of
the territory and of historical buildings;
- make known personalities, works, theories in architecture from the mid 18th century to today.

Contents

The Course of Contemporary History of Architecture (8 cfu) comprises a
series of lessons ex cathedra with the duration of approximately four (4)
hours each regarding the transformation of the Architectural language
from the second half of the 1700s up to today.

Extended Syllabus

Program in Extended Version
The Course examines the evolutive phases of Architecture from the
second half of the 1700s up to today in relation to the geographical,
social, cultural, political and economic context. The following arguments
will be discussed in particular:
Architecture from the Age of “Enlightment” (Boullée, Ledoux e Durand)
and of the 1800s: Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Nuovo Corpo di Guardia, Teatro
di prosa, Altes Museum, church of Friedrichwerder, Academy of
Architecture, a project for a grande warehouse); Leo von Klenze (Propilei,
Gliptoteca, Ruhmeshalle, Post Office building. Royal palace, Walhalla),
Friedrich von Gärtner.
Architecture and Urbanisation in the European capitals in the second half
of the 1800s; Paris of II Empire; Vienna and the Ring, interventions in
Florence and Rome.
Architecture of Engineers: The use of iron and glass. The crisis of
Eclecticism history. L’Art Nouveau: Opera of Victor Horta. The Liberty in
Italy (Raimondo d’Aronco, Giuseppe Sommaruga, Giovanni Michelazzi).
Works of Antoni Gaudí (Park Güell, case Batlló and Milà, Sagrada Familia);
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts.
The School of Chicago, Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan.
The work of Otto Wagner (offices of Länderbank; Majolikahaus; offices of
the Postal Bank; Church of St. Leopold am Steinhof; the two ville of
Wagner); Adolf Loos (building in Michaelerplatz; houses of Steiner, Scheu,
Müller; project for the offices of the Chicago Tribune); Auguste Perret and
architecture in reinforced cement (building in rue Franklin, garage in rue
de Ponthieu, church of Notre-Dame de Consolation a Le Raincy, houses of
Cassandre, Museum of Public Works). Architecture and Industry:
Deutscher Werkbund, Peter Behrens (AEG turbine factory).
The role of the Avanguardie. Futurism: The manifest of futuristic
architecture and drawings by Antonio Sant’Elia. Il De Stijl: Theo van
Doesburg, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (house of Schröder, red-blue chair).
Architecture and the Revolution in Russia: Constructivism (Konstantin
Melnikov: The Pavillion of the Soviet Union Exhibition of Paris, workers’
recreational club Rusakov). German Expressionism: Erich Mendelsohn
(Torre Einstein, warehouses of Schocken in Stoccarda).
The masters of Architecture: Walter Gropius: from the workshops of
Fagus to Bauhaus. Le Corbusier: houses of Domino and Citrohan,
l’immeuble-villa; the 5 points of the new architecture and villa Savoye.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: the first projects, Weissenhof, the German
Pavillion at the Universal Exhibition of Barcellona, villa Tugendhat. Frank
Lloyd Wright and organic architecture: from the Prairie Houses to the
House on the Waterfall.
Italian architecture between the two wars. Facism and Architecture: the
Houses of the Fascio, Offices of ONB. Group 7 and Miar. The Station of
Florence, the University City of Rome and the Grandi Concorsi: The work
of Giuseppe Terragni at Como (Novocomum, asilo Sant’Elia, House of the
Fascio). Work of Giovanni Muzio, Marcello Piacentini. Projects for l’E 42.
Architecture of the II Postwar. The reconstruction post-bellica. The
activity of the Masters: Le Corbusier (The Unification of housing in
Marsiglia, convent de la Tourette, chapel of Ronchamp, Chandigarh),
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Campus dell’IIT, Farnsworth House, Seagram
Building, New National Gallery of Berlin), Frank Lloyd Wright (house of
David Wright, Guggenheim Museum). Aalvar Alto (Baker House,
residential centre of Ravaniemi, church of the Three Croses of Imatra),
Oscar Niemeyer (complex of Pampulha, house of das Canoas, Brasilia,
Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói), Eero Saarinen (Jefferson
Memorial, General Motors Technical Center, the ice building of Yale
University, Terminal TWA, Dulles Airport, CBS skyscraper), Louis Kahn.
Architecture in Italy: E.N. Rogers and the tower of Velasca, Mario Ridolfi,
Ludovico Quaroni, Giovanni Michelucci.
Architecture and the trends in the ‘60s; “pop art”, Robert Venturi, Charles
Moore and post-modernism
Expressionist structuralism, deconstructivism, hi-tech.
Contemporary Architects: Richard Meier, Gustav Peichl, Herman
Hertzberger, Günter Behnisch, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Norman
Foster, Daniel Libeskind, Renzo Piano, Mario Botta, Rem Koolhaas, Jean
Nouvel, Alvaro Siza, Rafael Moneo, Santiago Calatrava, Felix Candela,
Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Herzog e de Meuron.
Recent trends of Japanese Architecture: Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Toyo
Ito; Architecture and the trends in the era of Globalisation

Recommended Bibliography

In order to take the Examination, it is obligatory that the topics of the
following texts be studied:
K. FRAMPTON, Storia dell' architettura moderna (1980), Zanichelli,
Bologna 1982 ed. successive.
W. J.R. CURTIS, L’architettura moderna del Novecento, Bruno Mondadori,
Milano, 1999 ed. successive.
Dizionario di Architettura e Urbanistica (DAU);
N. PEVSNER, FLEMING J., H. HONOUR, Dizionario di Architettura;
Enciclopedia dell’Architettura (Serie Le Garzantine).
Per gli approfondimenti si consiglia di consultare anche la bibliografia di
seguito elencata:
BENEVOLO L., Storia dell’architettura moderna, Laterza, Bari, 1960.
BIRAGHI M., FERLENGA A. (a cura di), Architettura del Novecento, Torino,
Einaudi, 2012, voll. 2.
BLAKE P., La forma segue il fiasco. Perché l'architettura moderna non ha
funzionato, Firenze, Alinea, 1983.
BRUNO JR. A., Percorsi dell’architettura contemporanea, Roma, Carocci,
2006.
CIUCCI G., Gli architetti e il fascismo. Architettura e città 1922-44, Torino,
Einaudi, 1989.
DE BENEDETTI M.- A. PRACCHI, Antologia dell’architettura moderna.
Testi, manifesti, utopie, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1998.
LE CORBUSIER, Verso una architettura (1923), a cura di P. Cerri e P.
Nicolin, Milano, Longanesi, 1992.
LOOS A., Parole nel vuoto, Milano, Adelphi, 1972.
MIDDLETON R., WATKIN D., Architettura dell'Ottocento, Milano, Electa,
1977.
MUNTONI A., Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura contemporanea, Roma Bari, Laterza, 1997.
PEVSNER N., I pionieri dell’architettura moderna. Da William Morris a
Walter Gropius, Milano, Garzanti, 1983.
ROSSI A., L’architettura della città, Padova, Marsilio,1966.
ZUCCONI G., La città dell’Ottocento, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2001.

Teaching Methods

Didactic Methodologies
The didactic program is comprised of a series of theoretical lessons and
practical lessons that follow the sequence of topics described in the
program, enhanced by the projection of images and didactic material
(photocopies and slides). Each lesson is followed by a brief discussion in
which the students are invited to express their personal opinion
regarding the arguments examined or on the architectural works
illustrated. In order to prepare for the Examination, students can use all
the didactic material offered by the tutor at the end of the lesson. For
explanations and further detail, individual meetings during the hours of
reception are provided.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Learning Verification Mode
The final evaluation consists of an Oral Examination that focuses on the
discussion of the main arguments studied during lessons in accordance
with the program. The student needs to demonstrate the knowledge of
the Architectural works in their Historical/Cultural context with a
description and also with the aid of simple free-hand drawings and
formal, structural and stylistic elements.

Contacts/More Information

Further Information
The Course is coordinated with those of architectural design, materials technology and descriptive geometry (proff. Ulisse, Ladiana, Tunzi) the theme of study is the residence.
The Course takes place in the lecture rooms of the Faculty of Architecture
in Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, in the first semester of the Academic Year
according to the President’s Administration Office calendar. Attendance
is not obligatory, however, we do suggest to arrange the planning with
the tutor. In the calendar of the degree course, the dates and times of
the examination are specified.
Office hours: after lessons and in the second semester on Wednesdays
from 12 to 14.
fiadino@unich.it

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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