STORIA DELL’ARCHITETTURA MODERNA

The History of Modern Architecture Course aims to provide a framework for the knowledge and understanding of the History of Italian Architecture of the modern age and its protagonists, in the European and international context; the course also aims to provide the critical capacity in evaluating the events of the development of architecture over the centuries and the ability to compare different artistic languages. The history of architecture is analyzed in its inseparable relationship with the history of the city.

The teaching takes place through lectures, exercises that accustom the student to carry out autonomous research and study visits (the latter compatibly with the timing of the course) for a more diversified and complete critical reading of the analyzed topics.

The history of Italian architecture from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century until the late Italian and European Baroque. Main topics: The new artistic culture: the Italian renaissance between reason and beauty; protagonists of the arts and urban renewal; the '400 4 is 500 in Sicily; The Roman Baroque and its protagonists; other regional areas of the Baroque: Piedmont, Venice, Naples, Sicily, the late Baroque.