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B018846 - HISTORY OF THE CITY AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
Academic Year 2018-19
Coorte 2018 - Second Cycle Degree in ARCHITECTURE
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Architecture (DIDA)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
ICAR/18 - HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
24/09/2018 ⇒ 11/01/2019
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Course Content
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Course program
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
This course focuses on the world history of architecture from the mid-20th century to today. The analysis of a set of written and architectural works is aimed to provide the students of the intellectual tools to understand today’s outstanding architectural tendencies in a historical perspective.
Course program
1. Introduction to the course: the work of modern masters in the post-war period.
2. International style
a. Philip Johnson, Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1946-49
b. Eero Saarinen, TWA Terminal, Idlewild Airport, New York, 1956-62
c. Oscar Niemeyer, Metropolitan Cathedral, Brasilia, 1959-70
d. Gordon Bunshaft (SOM), Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, 1960-63.
3. Louis I. Kahn
a. Salk biological research Insitute, La Jolla, Cal, 1959-65
b. Bangla Desh National assembly, Dacca, 1962-83
4. Team 10. The neo-brutalism
a. Alison and Peter Smithson - School in Hunstanton, United Kingdom - 1949-54
b. Giancarlo De Carlo, PRG of Urbino - 1958-64
c. James Stirling, Cambridge History Faculty - 1964-67.
5. Italy from 1945 to '70
a. BBPR, Torre Velasca, Milan - 1950-58
b. Albini, The treasure museum of San Lorenzo, Genoa, 1952-56
c. Gardella, Apartment house the Zattere, Venice - 1953-58
d. Carlo Scarpa, Museum of Castelvecchio, Verona - 1964.
6. Neo-avant-garde and Post-Modern
a. Archigram, Walking city - 1964
b. Robert Venturi - Mother's house in Chestnut Hills, Penn - 1959-64
c. Charles Moore, Piazza d'Italia - New Orleans, Louisiana - 1977-79.
7. "Critical regionalism"
a. Jørn Utzon, Sydney opera house, 1957-73
b. Alvaro Siza with Fernando Tavora, Boa Nova restaurant in Leça de Palmeira - 1963
c. Alvaro Siza, Faculty of Architecture of Porto - 1986-96
d. Rafael Moneo, Town hall of Murcia, 1991-98.
8. The "Aldo Rossi case"
a. Housing unit in the Gallaratese district in Milan - 1969
b. Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena - 1971-78
c. Carlo Felice Theater - Genoa - 1983-89 with I. Gardella.
9. The Five Architects NY
a. John Hejduk - House 10 -1966
b. Peter Eisenman - House II - Hardwick, Vermont - 1969-70
10. The "second machine age"
a. Eugène Beaudoin, Marcel Lods, Jean Prouvé, Maison du peuple in Clichy, 1935-39
b. Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Pompidou Center in Paris, 1971
c. N. Foster - Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking corporation headquarters in Hong Kong - 1979-86.
11. Japan. Minimalism
a. K. Tange - Project for the expansion of Tokyo - 1960
b. Kisho Kurokawa - Nagakin capsule tower in Tokyo - 1971-72
c. Tadao Ando, Azuma house in Osaka, 1975-'76
d. Peter Zumthor, Thermal building of Vals, 1986-'96
e. Herzog and de Meuron, Railway control cabin in Basel - 1989-94
f. Kazuyo Sejima, N-Museum in Wakayama, 1995-97
g. Toyo Ito, Media Library in Sendai, 1995-2000.
12. Deconstructivism
a. Daniel Libeskind - Jewish Museum in Berlin - 1989-99
b. Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette in Paris - 1982-97
c. Zaha Hadid - Vitra fire station in Weil am Rhein - 1990-94.
13. Engineering from Nervi to Calatrava
a. Felix Candela, Los Manantiales restaurant, Xochimilco - 1958
c. Santiago Calatrava, TGV station in Lyons - 1990-94.
14. Rem Koolhaas
a. Masterplan for Euralille - 1988-91
b. Ville L'Ava in Saint-Cloud, France - 1985-91
c. Seattle Public Library - 1999-2004.
15. Architectural principles of the computer age
a. Jean Nouvel, Institute of the Arab World in Paris - 1981-87
b. Frank. O. Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles - 1989-2003
c. Future System (Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete) - Selfridges department store in Birmingham - 1999-2003
d. Diller & Scofidio, Eyebeam school and museum in New York, 2001
e. Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, Kunsthaus in Graz - 2000-03.
2. International style
a. Philip Johnson, Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1946-49
b. Eero Saarinen, TWA Terminal, Idlewild Airport, New York, 1956-62
c. Oscar Niemeyer, Metropolitan Cathedral, Brasilia, 1959-70
d. Gordon Bunshaft (SOM), Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, 1960-63.
3. Louis I. Kahn
a. Salk biological research Insitute, La Jolla, Cal, 1959-65
b. Bangla Desh National assembly, Dacca, 1962-83
4. Team 10. The neo-brutalism
a. Alison and Peter Smithson - School in Hunstanton, United Kingdom - 1949-54
b. Giancarlo De Carlo, PRG of Urbino - 1958-64
c. James Stirling, Cambridge History Faculty - 1964-67.
5. Italy from 1945 to '70
a. BBPR, Torre Velasca, Milan - 1950-58
b. Albini, The treasure museum of San Lorenzo, Genoa, 1952-56
c. Gardella, Apartment house the Zattere, Venice - 1953-58
d. Carlo Scarpa, Museum of Castelvecchio, Verona - 1964.
6. Neo-avant-garde and Post-Modern
a. Archigram, Walking city - 1964
b. Robert Venturi - Mother's house in Chestnut Hills, Penn - 1959-64
c. Charles Moore, Piazza d'Italia - New Orleans, Louisiana - 1977-79.
7. "Critical regionalism"
a. Jørn Utzon, Sydney opera house, 1957-73
b. Alvaro Siza with Fernando Tavora, Boa Nova restaurant in Leça de Palmeira - 1963
c. Alvaro Siza, Faculty of Architecture of Porto - 1986-96
d. Rafael Moneo, Town hall of Murcia, 1991-98.
8. The "Aldo Rossi case"
a. Housing unit in the Gallaratese district in Milan - 1969
b. Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena - 1971-78
c. Carlo Felice Theater - Genoa - 1983-89 with I. Gardella.
9. The Five Architects NY
a. John Hejduk - House 10 -1966
b. Peter Eisenman - House II - Hardwick, Vermont - 1969-70
10. The "second machine age"
a. Eugène Beaudoin, Marcel Lods, Jean Prouvé, Maison du peuple in Clichy, 1935-39
b. Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Pompidou Center in Paris, 1971
c. N. Foster - Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking corporation headquarters in Hong Kong - 1979-86.
11. Japan. Minimalism
a. K. Tange - Project for the expansion of Tokyo - 1960
b. Kisho Kurokawa - Nagakin capsule tower in Tokyo - 1971-72
c. Tadao Ando, Azuma house in Osaka, 1975-'76
d. Peter Zumthor, Thermal building of Vals, 1986-'96
e. Herzog and de Meuron, Railway control cabin in Basel - 1989-94
f. Kazuyo Sejima, N-Museum in Wakayama, 1995-97
g. Toyo Ito, Media Library in Sendai, 1995-2000.
12. Deconstructivism
a. Daniel Libeskind - Jewish Museum in Berlin - 1989-99
b. Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette in Paris - 1982-97
c. Zaha Hadid - Vitra fire station in Weil am Rhein - 1990-94.
13. Engineering from Nervi to Calatrava
a. Felix Candela, Los Manantiales restaurant, Xochimilco - 1958
c. Santiago Calatrava, TGV station in Lyons - 1990-94.
14. Rem Koolhaas
a. Masterplan for Euralille - 1988-91
b. Ville L'Ava in Saint-Cloud, France - 1985-91
c. Seattle Public Library - 1999-2004.
15. Architectural principles of the computer age
a. Jean Nouvel, Institute of the Arab World in Paris - 1981-87
b. Frank. O. Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles - 1989-2003
c. Future System (Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete) - Selfridges department store in Birmingham - 1999-2003
d. Diller & Scofidio, Eyebeam school and museum in New York, 2001
e. Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, Kunsthaus in Graz - 2000-03.