HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

The course aims to provide students with the basic principles of history of architecture and with the methods of investigation in history of architecture.
By the end of this course, students will be able to describe an architectural work; to analyse it in a critical approach; to see the architectural work in the historical context of his time and in within the history of architecture.
The course is intended for students of the bachelor's degrees in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Technologies for the Conservation and the Restoration.
Students can attend the course as exam for 6CFU or as the first part of the exam for 12CFU (FT4091) comprised within the majors of the Histroy of Arts track or curriculum of the bachelor's degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Performing Arts Management.

1. Knowledge and understanding:
- Provide a firm grounding in the history of architecture between 15 and 17 century through the fundamentals works and their architects.
- Knowledge of the methods of investigation in architectural history and the language of the discipline.
2. Skills:
Students must be able to analyse architectures in the historical and cultural context of their time using appropriate methods of investigation and a correct use of the language.
3. Learning skills:
Students must be able to consult and critically use the bibliography given throughout the course.

This course presumes previous knowledge of the basic thresholds in the history of arts and art criticism.

This course presents an outline of the history of architecture from Renaissance to the end of the XVIIth century in Italy, MMMMMMM France, England.
We will examine the changes of architecture in this period, the architects, their interests and studies, and the architectures that best represents these changes.

At beginning of the course precise indications on the sections of these readings to be prepared for the exam will be given, with further bibliografic references on specific themes discussed.
D. Watkin, Storia dell'architettura Occidentale, (1986) Bologna, Zanichelli 1999 and others editions, only the parts that will be indicated in the complete program as well as for N. Pevsner, Storia dell'architettura europea, (1966) (1966), Bari, Laterza, 2002.
A. Bruschi, Introduzione alla storia dell'architettura. Considerazioni sul metodo e sulla storia degli studi, Milano-Roma 2009, chapters 1, 2, 3.
For non-attenders student only:
J. Summerson, Il linguaggio classico dell'architettura, (Cambridge, MIT Press, 1963), Torino, Einaudi (PBE), 1970, 1990, 2000
The full program of the course will be on moodle.unive.it and contains: readings list for the exam; topics of the class lectures; list of works examined in the course; suggestions for your exam preparation and study.

Oral exam. During the exam the student must demonstrate the knowledge of the themes and aspects touched upon in class and be able to command the appropriate language to discuss about them.

Lectures by the teacher. All the Power-point presentation of the lectures in moodle.unive.it

Italian

For the registration of the exam for 12CFU (FT4091 or FT0287) the student must have supported both tests of the exam: Storia dell’architettura II for FT0491; Architettura del Paesaggio for FT0287.

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