The course include the 20th century architecture in Europe and in the United States of America, highlighting the different modern tendencies: the one linked to the avant-gardes but also the one established from the intersection of relationships between regional traditions and new languages. Besides, dwelling and urban reforming policies and the importance of the reinforced concrete establishing will be analysed. The course also deals with the Modern Movement crisis and outlines the themes of the beginning of the last century decade.
teacher profile teaching materials
This course is divided into four lines: a) the great, general themes (the historical contest, the programmes, the ideas, Modern and Tradition); b) the great figures of architects; b)the philology and constructive analysis of works (both realized and only planned) and the historiographical interpretations.
William J. R. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900, London: Phaidon Press,1996.
Elie G. Haddad, David Rifkind (ed.), A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture:1960-2010,Oxford: Routledge, 2014.
Mutuazione: 21002035 STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA in Architettura - Progettazione architettonica LM-4 CANALE I TALAMONA MARIA IDA
Programme
This course covers a temporal space between the last decade of XIX century and the end of XX century and gets through the complexity of historical tangles, which carried out to the birth of the modern forms and its rise. It is considered as a wide-ranging space which comprises not only the works of the innovative architects, bound up with the avant-garde or with the great ideals (like the design of machinery or the organicism), but also the works sometimes revolutionary that refers to the vernacular tradition.This course is divided into four lines: a) the great, general themes (the historical contest, the programmes, the ideas, Modern and Tradition); b) the great figures of architects; b)the philology and constructive analysis of works (both realized and only planned) and the historiographical interpretations.
Core Documentation
Sigfried Giedion, Space,Time and Architecture, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,1954.William J. R. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900, London: Phaidon Press,1996.
Elie G. Haddad, David Rifkind (ed.), A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture:1960-2010,Oxford: Routledge, 2014.
Type of delivery of the course
Currently, the course is held in distance learning through Microsoft Teams hub. In the same hub, students can find learning materials and notices about the course activity. Students can register for the course through the Moodle website https://architettura.el.uniroma3.it/course/index.php?categoryid=18.Attendance
The attendance of at least 75% of the lessons is compulsory. Signatures of attendance will be taken.Type of evaluation
The evaluation is based on an oral examination on-line. The student will have to answer some questions related to the course program and will have to demonstrate a good knowledge of the topic addressed.The student must also prove to be able to describe plans and elevations of the buildings discussed.