Unit HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2

Course
Building engineering and architecture
Study-unit Code
GP003197
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Francesca Funis
Teachers
  • Francesca Funis
Hours
  • 81 ore - Francesca Funis
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Base
Area
Discipline storiche per l'architettura
Academic discipline
ICAR/18
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
The course will address the use of classical architecture as an architectural language in the History of Architecture.
The course will cover major architectural and urban episodes placed in different periods, with the following periodization: architectural order and its components; Romanesque architecture; Gothic architecture; Renaissance architecture; Baroque architecture; Neoclassicism; Industrialization and Modernisms; Chicago School; Vienna Secession; Art Nouveau and Catalan Modernism.
Reference texts
Handbooks:
- Autori Vari, Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura, Armando Edizioni, 2019 (or Roma, Sovera Edizioni, 2018 o precedenti).
- W. Curtis, L'architettura moderna dal 1900, Phaidon, 2006.

At the end of the course, the Professor will supply students with PDfs of articles, essays and texts on the topics addressed. This material will be available on Unistudium with access key.
Educational objectives
The course provides cognitive support and the necessary critical tools for interpreting architecture from Romanesque period and the early twentieth century. Students must master the fundamental competences of history of architecture, namely periodization; nomenclature; founding elements; construction techniques; the building site; materials; compositional themes; architectural typologies; design and historical survey; representation of architecture; the commissioner's role and the relationship with the figurative arts; the project and its capacity to change the environment, the city and the territory over time.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the topics treated in the History of Architecture course 1. In addition, the student should possess basic historical and cultural knowledge related to the historical periods covered.
Teaching methods
Ex-cathedra lectures, thematic and seminar insights, study visits.
Other information
The history of architecture embraces a series of exemplars that effectively document its phenomenological, symbolic and social value. Visiting these exemplars is essential when taking this subject, since it enables students to study first-hand the physical features of the buildings and their spatial and material characteristics. Hence visiting the works under study in situ is recommended to gain a more complete knowledge of them.
Florence:
Baptistery; Santa Maria del Fiore, church, dome, bell tower; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and Uffizi; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel; Santa Maria Novella (façade); Piazza della Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, church, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici Chapels; Palazzo (façade) and Rucellai Loggia; Santo Spirito, church and sacristy; Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens.

Rome:
Tempietto of St. Peter in Montorio; Capitoline Square; St. Peter's, basilica, canopy, piazza; Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona; Cornaro Chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria; Scala Regia in the Vatican; Gallery of Palazzo Capodiferro-Spada; Church and convent of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane; church of Sant'Agnese in Agone; Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza.
Learning verification modality
Oral exam on the entire program, from Romanesque architecture to Modernisms (Art Nouveau, Catalan Modernism and the Vienna Secession).
Each student (if she/he wants) can provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. S. Foy, Conques
2. St. Martin's, Tours
3. S. Sernin, Toulouse
4. Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
5. Cluny III, abbey church
6. Milan, Sant'Ambrogio
7. Venice, San Marco
8. Modena, Cathedral
9. Pisa, cathedral and leaning tower
10. Florence, Baptistery
11. Florence, San Miniato al Monte
12. Assisi, San Rufino (Cathedral)
13. Spoleto, Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta
14. Todi, co-cathedral of the Santissima Annunziata
15. Saint-Denis, choir
16. Sens, cathedral of Saint Etienne
17. Noyon, cathedral of Nôtre Dame
18. Laon, Cathedral
19. Paris, cathedral of Nôtre Dame
20. Chartres, Cathedral of Nôtre Dame
21. Reims, Cathedral
22. Amiens, Cathedral
23. Bourges, Saint-Étienne Cathedral
24. Abbey of Casamari, Veroli
25. Abbey of Fossanova, Priverno
26. Santa Maria Novella, Florence
27. Todi, San Fortunato
28. Assisi, basilica of San Francesco
29. Santa Croce, Florence
30. Siena, cathedral
31. Orvieto, cathedral
32. Florence, cathedral
33. Hospital of the Innocents
34. Church of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy
35. Pazzi Chapel
36. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy)
37. Cupola, Tribune Morte and Lanterna of Santa Maria del Fiore
38. The Malatesta Temple in Rimini
39. Palazzo Rucellai, Sacello and front of Santa Maria Novella
40. San Sebastiano and Sant'Andrea in Mantua
41. The city in the fifteenth century: Pienza
42. The city in the fifteenth century: Urbino
43. The city in the fifteenth century: Ferrara
44. The birth of the palace in the fifteenth century: Palazzo Medici on Via Larga
45. Santa Maria presso San Satiro
46. Santa Maria delle Grazie.
47. Saint Ambrose (cloisters and rectory)
48. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace
49. San Pietro in Montorio
50. Courtyard of the Belvedere and Snail Staircase
51. New Sacristy
52. Laurentian Medicean Library
53. Capitol Square
54. Uffizi, Palazzo Vecchio and Vasari Corridor
55. St. Peter's Basilica (from the Constantinian era to Carlo Maderno)
56. Baldachin of St. Peter's
57. St. Peter's Square
58. Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona
59. Cornaro Chapel at Santa Maria della Vittoria
60. The affair of the bell towers of St. Peter's
61. Scala Regia in the Vatican
62. Gallery of the Capodiferro-Spada palace.
63. Church and convent of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
64. Church of Sant'Agnese in Agone
65. Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza
66. Neoclassical architecture
67. Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace
68. Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower.
69. Henry Labrouste, Bibliothèque de Sainte-Geneviève
70. Thomas Deane, Benjamin Woodward, Oxford Museum
71. William Le Baron Jenney, First Leiter Building, Chicago
72. William Le Baron Jenney, Fair Store, Chicago
73. Henry Hobson Richardson, Marshall Field Store, Chicago.
74. Louis Sullivan, Dankmar Adler, Auditorium, Chicago
75. John Wellborn Root, Daniel Burnham, Monadnock Building, Chicago.
76. Daniel Burnham, Charles Bowler Atwood, John Wellborn Root, Reliance Building, Chicago
77. Louis Sullivan, Dankmar Adler, Wainwright Building, St. Louis.
78. Louis Sullivan, Dankmar Adler, Guaranty Building, Buffalo.
79. Joseph Maria Olbrich, Secession Building.
80. Otto Wagner, Majolikahaus on the Linke Wienzeile-Vienna
81. Josef Hoffmann, palace for Adolphe Stoclet
82. Villa Müller, Prague
83. Victor Horta, hôtels particuliers, Tassel-Brussels
84. Victor Horta, Maison du Peuple, Brussels
85. Hector Guimard, Maison Coilliot
86. Hector Guimard, Paris Métro Stations.
87. Antoni Gaudí, Casa Batlló, Barcelona
88. Antoni Gaudí, for Eusebi Güell (Güell Pavilions, Güell Palace, Güell Park, Güell Cellars, Crypt of Colonia Güell and Colonia Güell)
89. Antoni Gaudí, Güell Park, Barcelona
90. Antoni Gaudí, Casa Milà (la Pedrera), Barcelona
91. Antoni Gaudí, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
Extended program
Course content
The course will address the use of classical architecture as an architectural language in the History of Architecture.
The course will cover major architectural and urban episodes placed in different periods, with the following periodization: architectural order and its components; Romanesque architecture; Gothic architecture; Renaissance architecture; Baroque architecture; Neoclassicism; Industrialization and Modernisms; Chicago School; Vienna Secession; Art Nouveau and Catalan Modernism.

Reference texts
At the end of the course, the Professor will supply students with PDfs of articles, essays and texts on the topics addressed. This material will be available on Unistudium with access key.
Handbooks:
- Autori Vari, Lineamenti di storia dell'architettura, Armando Edizioni, 2019 (oppure Roma, Sovera Edizioni, 2018 o precedenti).
- W. Curtis, L'architettura moderna dal 1900, Phaidon, 2006.

Learning objectives
The course provides cognitive support and the necessary critical tools for interpreting architecture from Romanesque period and the early twentieth century. Students must master the fundamental competences of history of architecture, namely periodization; nomenclature; founding elements; construction techniques; the building site; materials; compositional themes; architectural typologies; design and historical survey; representation of architecture; the commissioner's role and the relationship with the figurative arts; the project and its capacity to change the environment, the city and the territory over time.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of the topics treated in the History of Architecture course 1. In addition, the student should possess basic historical and cultural knowledge related to the historical periods covered.

Teaching methods
Ex-cathedra lectures, thematic and seminar insights, study visits.

Further information
The history of architecture embraces a series of exemplars that effectively document its phenomenological, symbolic and social value. Visiting these exemplars is essential when taking this subject, since it enables students to study first-hand the physical features of the buildings and their spatial and material characteristics. Hence visiting the works under study in situ is recommended to gain a more complete knowledge of them.
Florence:
Baptistery; Santa Maria del Fiore, church, dome, bell tower; San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo Vecchio and Uffizi; Santa Croce, Pazzi Chapel; Santa Maria Novella (façade); Piazza della Santissima Annunziata; Palazzo Medici Riccardi; San Lorenzo, church, Old Sacristy, Laurentian Library, Medici Chapels; Palazzo (façade) and Rucellai Loggia; Santo Spirito, church and sacristy; Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens.

Rome:
Tempietto of St. Peter in Montorio; Capitoline Square; St. Peter's, basilica, canopy, piazza; Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona; Cornaro Chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria; Scala Regia in the Vatican; Gallery of Palazzo Capodiferro-Spada; Church and convent of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane; church of Sant'Agnese in Agone; Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza.

Assessment methods
Oral exam on the entire program, from Romanesque architecture to Modernisms (Art Nouveau, Catalan Modernism and the Vienna Secession).
Each student (if she/he wants) can provide the necessary iconographic material on a pc, tablet or paper. To pass the final exam students must show that they have achieved the objectives of the course.
In particular, they must possess an in-depth knowledge (including the chronology, commissioner, design process, distributive and structural characteristics, materials, spatial and formal aspects) of the following works:
1. S. Foy, Conques
2. St. Martin's, Tours
3. S. Sernin, Toulouse
4. Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
5. Cluny III, abbey church
6. Milan, Sant'Ambrogio
7. Venice, San Marco
8. Modena, Cathedral
9. Pisa, cathedral and leaning tower
10. Florence, Baptistery
11. Florence, San Miniato al Monte
12. Assisi, San Rufino (Cathedral)
13. Spoleto, Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta
14. Todi, co-cathedral of the Santissima Annunziata
15. Saint-Denis, choir
16. Sens, cathedral of Saint Etienne
17. Noyon, cathedral of Nôtre Dame
18. Laon, Cathedral
19. Paris, cathedral of Nôtre Dame
20. Chartres, Cathedral of Nôtre Dame
21. Reims, Cathedral
22. Amiens, Cathedral
23. Bourges, Saint-Étienne Cathedral
24. Abbey of Casamari, Veroli
25. Abbey of Fossanova, Priverno
26. Santa Maria Novella, Florence
27. Todi, San Fortunato
28. Assisi, basilica of San Francesco
29. Santa Croce, Florence
30. Siena, cathedral
31. Orvieto, cathedral
32. Florence, cathedral
33. Hospital of the Innocents
34. Church of San Lorenzo and Old Sacristy
35. Pazzi Chapel
36. Church of Santo Spirito (and sacristy)
37. Cupola, Tribune Morte and Lanterna of Santa Maria del Fiore
38. The Malatesta Temple in Rimini
39. Palazzo Rucellai, Sacello and front of Santa Maria Novella
40. San Sebastiano and Sant'Andrea in Mantua
41. The city in the fifteenth century: Pienza
42. The city in the fifteenth century: Urbino
43. The city in the fifteenth century: Ferrara
44. The birth of the palace in the fifteenth century: Palazzo Medici on Via Larga
45. Santa Maria presso San Satiro
46. Santa Maria delle Grazie.
47. Saint Ambrose (cloisters and rectory)
48. Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace
49. San Pietro in Montorio
50. Courtyard of the Belvedere and Snail Staircase
51. New Sacristy
52. Laurentian Medicean Library
53. Capitol Square
54. Uffizi, Palazzo Vecchio and Vasari Corridor
55. St. Peter's Basilica (from the Constantinian era to Carlo Maderno)
56. Baldachin of St. Peter's
57. St. Peter's Square
58. Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona
59. Cornaro Chapel at Santa Maria della Vittoria
60. The affair of the bell towers of St. Peter's
61. Scala Regia in the Vatican
62. Gallery of the Capodiferro-Spada palace.
63. Church and convent of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
64. Church of Sant'Agnese in Agone
65. Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza
66. Neoclassical architecture
67. Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace
68. Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower.
69. Henry Labrouste, Bibliothèque de Sainte-Geneviève
70. Thomas Deane, Benjamin Woodward, Oxford Museum
71. William Le Baron Jenney, First Leiter Building, Chicago
72. William Le Baron Jenney, Fair Store, Chicago
73. Henry Hobson Richardson, Marshall Field Store, Chicago.
74. Louis Sullivan, Dankmar Adler, Auditorium, Chicago
75. John Wellborn Root, Daniel Burnham, Monadnock Building, Chicago.
76. Daniel Burnham, Charles Bowler Atwood, John Wellborn Root, Reliance Building, Chicago
77. Louis Sullivan, Dankmar Adler, Wainwright Building, St. Louis.
78. Louis Sullivan, Dankmar Adler, Guaranty Building, Buffalo.
79. Joseph Maria Olbrich, Secession Building.
80. Otto Wagner, Majolikahaus on the Linke Wienzeile-Vienna
81. Josef Hoffmann, palace for Adolphe Stoclet
82. Villa Müller, Prague
83. Victor Horta, hôtels particuliers, Tassel-Brussels
84. Victor Horta, Maison du Peuple, Brussels
85. Hector Guimard, Maison Coilliot
86. Hector Guimard, Paris Métro Stations.
87. Antoni Gaudí, Casa Batlló, Barcelona
88. Antoni Gaudí, for Eusebi Güell (Güell Pavilions, Güell Palace, Güell Park, Güell Cellars, Crypt of Colonia Güell and Colonia Güell)
89. Antoni Gaudí, Güell Park, Barcelona
90. Antoni Gaudí, Casa Milà (la Pedrera), Barcelona
91. Antoni Gaudí, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
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