STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA E STORIA DELL'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA

Learning Objectives

• STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA

  Course goals:

  Achieve an appropriate knowledge about history of architecture of 19^th and 20^th century (topics, architects, theories, buildings).

  Develop methodological and analytical skills applicable to a wide range of topics, in order to be able to deal with other researchs in the following years.

  Learn how to "read" an architecture, both form a material and constructive point of view and form a functional and formal perspective.

• STORIA DELL’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA

  Course goals:

  Achieve an appropriate knowledge about history of art of 19^th and 20^th cenntury (topics, artists, theories, artworks).

  Develop methodological and analytical skills applicable to a wide range of topics, in order to be able to deal with other researchs in the following years.

  Learn how to "read" criticcally connection between art and architecture.

Course Structure

• STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA

  Lectures will be strictly linked with lectures of History of modern and contemporary Art.

  The course is structured trough frontal lectures and seminars.

  Exercise sessions will be proposed during the year.

• STORIA DELL’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA

  Lectures will be strictly linked with lectures of History of modern and contemporary Art.

  The course is structured trough frontal lectures and seminars.

  Exercise sessions will be proposed during the year.

Detailed Course Content

• STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA

  The course aims to introduce the first year students to the basic information about modern and contemporary history of architecture, providing them with essential tools to understand different issues. The course faces the fundamental topics of 19th and 20th century, by means of both general frameworks and monographic approaches. Subjects, places, architects and architectures, debates, theories are intertwined and related with questions derived from the problems of contemporary practice.

   

   

  Essential topics:
  “Modern” and contemporary”, historiographical issues. Methodological tools: analysis of essential books and dictionaries. Architectural culture between the second half of the 18^th century and the 19^th century. Eclecticism and its roots: the Grand Tour, the archaeological discoveries. The 19^th century and the debate on style. Industrial revolution and new materials. Industrial revolution and urban transformations. Political and social changes: the bourgeois city. At the turn of 20^th century: art nouveau and the avantgardes; the problem of “ornament” (Sullivan, Loos) and the matter of “structural honesty” (Viollet le Duc, Perret). Towards the modern movement: architecture in Germany in the first part of 20^th century. The American context and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Bauhaus. De Stijl and the Dutch architecture. Masters between the two world wars: Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The Scandinavian context; Erik Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto. Italy between the two world wars; the years of the reconstruction. Tradition and modernity; masters of modern movement after the Second World War. Architecture of Louis Kahn. Topics and personalities: the debate between 1970-2000.

• STORIA DELL’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA

  The course aims to introduce the first year students to the basic information about art in the 19th and 20th century, providing them with essential tools to understand different issues. The course faces the fundamental topics of 19th and 20th century, by means of both general frameworks and monographic approaches. It will explore a range of aesthetic, cultural and social issues through the work of major artist.

  Essential topics:
  “Modern” and contemporary”, historiographical issues. Methodological tools: analysis of essential books and dictionaries. Artistic culture between the second half of the 18^th century and the 19^th century: classicism and romanticism. Realism. Impressinism. Art Nouveau. The Avant-Gardes at the beginning of the 20th century. The birth of Abstract art. Expressionism: art and architecture. The Bauhaus. Le Corbusier and the artists. Movements and theories after the Second World War. The Avant-Gardes in the Sixties. Artists between 1970 and 2000: case-studies. Artists, spectators and art market.

Textbook Information

• STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA

  1. K. Frampton, Modern Architecture: a Critical History, Thames and Hudson, London 1980 (fourth edition London 2007).

  2. W.J.R. Curtis, Modern Architecture since 1900, Phaidon, Oxdord 1982 (third edition London1996).

  3. D. Watkin, A History of Western architecture, Barrie & Jenkins, London1986 (capthers on XVIII and XIX century).

  4. K. Frampton, Studies in tectonic culture : the poetics of construction in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture, Cambridge, Mass.; MIT Press,London 1995.

• STORIA DELL’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA

  1) Students are allowed to use their own school text of Modern Art Hisotry, after teacher agreement.

  2) About art of XIX century: Robert Rosenblum, H. W. Janson, 19th Century Art, (I ed. New York 1984) Pearson College Div., New York 2004 (part III e IV).

  3) Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve Alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh, David Joselit, Art Since 1900: Modernism Antimodernism Postmodernism (I ed. London 2004) Thames & Hudson, New York 2016.

  4) Denys Riout, Qu'est-ce que l'art moderne?, (english), Folio-Gallimard, Paris 2000.

  See also:
  5) Francesco Poli, Il sistema dell'arte contemporanea, (I ed. 1999) Laterza, Bari Roma 2011 (chapter 1).