Teacher

prof. Cristiano TESSARI

Credits

8 CFU

Objectives:

The study of architecture and its history offers a comprehensive view of the creative and constructive processes that form the basis of every object – building, model, map, or literature - observed in term of its own cultural context. The course, both in the lessons and in the bibliography, introduces students to the history and practice of architectural thought ad theory. It also provides them with the ability to define and frame questions about the specific culture of the architects of the past, their legacy and the implications of the same for their work. As part of the Course, students will be asked to write a final term paper, which should reflect what they have learnt in terms of method and practice. Reference can be made both to drawings and images.

Acquired Skills:

The method and the content acquired through the course of History of architecture 1 should provide the student with sufficient skill and knowledge to assess and describe the principal achievements in architecture in the Western world, from ancient times to the modern age.

Lectures and exercises:

Presentation of the course and methodology of the research: location of the argument, the sources (main and secondary). Analysis and organization of the structure of the text. Architecture of the Ancient world: the "land between two rivers": architecture in Mesopotamia. Egypt: egyptian pyramids and funerary temples. The Helladic world and the Aegean architecture. (5 hours)

Greek Architecture: general features. Archaic, classic and hellenistic Greece. The cities (birth and development). The architectonic orders. (7 hours)

Before the foundation of Rome:  the ancient Italic culture and the Etrurians. (2 hours)

Roman Architecture: general features. The Republic, the Principality, the Empire. The Vitruvium and the architect. The paleochristian character (Rome and Milan). (10 hours)

Byzantine Architecture: general features. The Byzantine Architecture in Bisanzio and in Ravenna. (5 hours)

Romanesque Architecture: the Romanesque Architecture in Europe (France, England, Germany, Spain). The Romanesque Architecture in Italy (Lombardia, Veneto, Emilia, Toscana, Marche, Abruzzo, Lazio, Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicilia). (5 hours)

Opus Francigenum: general features. Opus Francigenum in Europe (France, England, Germany, Austria). Opus Francigenum in Italy. (5 hours)

Architecture in the Age of Humanism: the outspringing and diffusion centres of the Reinassance Architecture (Firenze, Roma, Ferrara, Urbino). The ideals cities and the treaties of architecture. Analysis of the architectural works of Bramante, Raffaello, Peruzzi, Michelangelo and Palladio. (31 hours)

Between theory and praxis: architectural treatises during the 15th and 17th centuries. (2 hours)

The 17th century in Rome: Bernini, Borromini, Pietro da Cortona. (6 hours)

The early 18th century in Italy: Guarini, Juvarra, Vanvitelli, Vaccarini. (2 hours)

Note: Required exercise: students will be required to draw up -individually- an illustrated term paper: further details will be given during the Course

References:

- CARPENTER R., Architects of the Parthenon, Penguin Books Ltd, 1970;
- MORACHIELLO M., FONTANA V., L'architettura del mondo romano, Laterza, Bari 2009;
- COARELLI F., Roma, Laterza, 2008, 3th ed. (Collana Guide Archeologiche Laterza);
- GROS P., L'architettura romana, Milano, Longanesi, 2000;
- KRAUTHEIMER R., Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, The Yale University Press, 1984;
- KRAUTHEIMER R., Studies in early Christian, Medieval, and Renaissance, New York University Press, 1969;
- TAFURI M., L'architettura dell'umanesimo, Bari, Laterza, 1969;- BRUSCHI A., Bramante, Laterza, Bari 2010;
- ACKERMAN J. S., Distance Points: Studies in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture, MIT Press, 1994;
- TAFURI M., Interpreting the Renaissance: princes, cities, architects, Yale University Press, 2006;
- LOTZ W. (revised by Deborah Howard), Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600, Yale University Press, 1995;
- WITTKOWER R., Art and architecture in Italy, 1600 to 1750, Yale University Press, 1982.

Additional material or information on line http://web.uniud.it/tessari

Type of exam:

Oral