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Aims :

The course means to supply an articulate picture of the main ones makes of the development of the history of the western architecture from the origins at the beginning of the XIX° century, until comprising all the neoclassical movement. To the inside of this part the course will follow the canonical artistic historical cronology supplying wide space, beyond to the principles generates them, to the analysis and the history of the single buildings more represented you of the single ages of which the problematic ones will be puttinges in particular evidence tied to the constructive techniques and the dialectic evolution and of the shapes understandings like expression and spirit of their cultural contemporaneità. They will accompany the analysis of the periods signals and lineamenti of history of the art understandings to comprise the widest picture than reference in which the architectonic expressions are placed.

Topics :

ARCHITECTURE OF ORIGINS, the definition of the archetype forms of architecture.
GREEK ARCHITECTURE, general features of Greek art and culture; the architecture of the temples in archaic, classical and Hellenistic periods. The Acropolis in Athens.
ROMAN AND EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE : features of Roman art and culture; from the republican age to Constantine; the late ancient and the premises of medieval architecture.
ROMANESQUE AND MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE: the Early romantics; Romanesque in Europe and in Italy (the early renaissance); Gothic Architecture in Europe and in Italy.
RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE: Renaissance art and culture; from the Florentine 400’s (Alberti, Brunelleschi) to the Roman ‘500’s (Bramante, Michelangelo, Raffaello); Classicism and mannerism in northern Italy (Palladium, Giulio Romano).
BAROQUE AND ROCOCO' ARCHITECTURE : art and culture in the ‘600’s; Baroque in Rome (Bernini, Borromini) and in Piedmont (Guarini, Juvarra).
NEOCLASSICISMO: Art and neoclassic culture, neoclassicism in Europe and in Italy.

Textbooks :

1. De Fusco, Renato, Mille anni di architettura in Europa, Bari, Laterza, 1999, pp. 714.
2. AA. VV., Lineamenti di Storia dell’Architettura, Sovera, Roma, 2000 (I° ed. 1994);
3. Gurrieri, Francesco, Estetica dell’architettura, Firenze Alinea editrice, 1999, pp. 248.
4. Summerson John, Il linguaggio classico dell’Architettura, Torino, Einaudi, 2000 (I° ed. 1963), pp. 100.
5. Vitruvio, De Architectura, qualunque edizione purchè in italiano, commentata ed illustrata
It is suggested:
De Architectura, a cura di Pierre Gros, Einaudi, Torino, 1997.

Exam :

In order to approach the examination the student must have at least attended 80% of the laboratory lessons. The examination, in relation to the arguments deals to you, will be articulated in: Talk on the general section; Talk on the carried out practices;

Tutorial Session :

Wednesday hours 11.30-13.