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B018846 - HISTORY OF THE CITY AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
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Course Content
Suggested readings
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Course program
Academic Year 2019-20
Coorte 2019 - Second Cycle Degree in ARCHITECTURE
Course year
First year - Annualità singola
Belonging Department
Architecture (DIDA)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
ICAR/18 - HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
23/09/2019 ⇒ 29/05/2020
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
- Part A VASIC VATOVEC CORINNA
- Part B CISTERNINO ALFREDO
Teaching Language - Part B
Italian
Course Content - Part B
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.
Suggested readings - Part B (Search our library's catalogue)
Marco Biraghi, Storia dell’architettura contemporanea II, Einaudi, Torino 2008;
to compare with one among:
K. Frampton, Storia dell'architettura moderna (parte II cap. 19,21,22, 25, 26, 27, parte III), Zanichelli, Bologna 2008
W. J. R. Curtis, Architettura moderna del Novecento, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 1996 (cap. da 22 a 35)
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010, a cura di E.G. Haddad, D. Rifkind, Ashgate, Farnham Burlington 2014.
to compare with one among:
K. Frampton, Storia dell'architettura moderna (parte II cap. 19,21,22, 25, 26, 27, parte III), Zanichelli, Bologna 2008
W. J. R. Curtis, Architettura moderna del Novecento, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 1996 (cap. da 22 a 35)
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010, a cura di E.G. Haddad, D. Rifkind, Ashgate, Farnham Burlington 2014.
Teaching Methods - Part B
The course includes lectures, visits and field trips.
Type of Assessment - Part B
Oral test. Examinees are asked to highlight topics through definitions, connections and citations of works.
Course program - Part B
The course covers the following topics:
1. The late works of Modern Movement
2. The origins of International style and the post –ww2 development of the skyscraper
3. Ph. Johnson, SOM, Saarinen, Niemeyer
4. Louis I. Kahn
5. Post-ww2 Italian architecture
6. From Ciam To Team 10
7. Neo-avant-gards
8. James Stirling
9. Scandinavia
10. Spain and Portugal in the second half of the century
11. Five architects NY
12. The Aldo Rossi case.
13. Post-Modernism
14. The second machine age
15. Japan
16. Minimalism
17. Decostruttivism
18. Frank. O. Gehry
19. Jean Nouvel and virtual reality
20. Rem Koolhaas
1. The late works of Modern Movement
2. The origins of International style and the post –ww2 development of the skyscraper
3. Ph. Johnson, SOM, Saarinen, Niemeyer
4. Louis I. Kahn
5. Post-ww2 Italian architecture
6. From Ciam To Team 10
7. Neo-avant-gards
8. James Stirling
9. Scandinavia
10. Spain and Portugal in the second half of the century
11. Five architects NY
12. The Aldo Rossi case.
13. Post-Modernism
14. The second machine age
15. Japan
16. Minimalism
17. Decostruttivism
18. Frank. O. Gehry
19. Jean Nouvel and virtual reality
20. Rem Koolhaas