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Storia dell'Architettura 2 (EA)
History of Architecture 2
Antonello Alici

Seat Ingegneria
A.A. 2015/2016
Credits 9
Hours 90
Period 1s
Language ENG

Prerequisites
History of Architecture 1

Learning outcomes
The course refines and completes the historical-critical knowledge and skills to the understanding of architecture through the study of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in harmony with the architectural and urban composition courses.

Program
The course aims to give to the future engineer-architect a basic knowledge of the artistic and architectural culture of the modern and contemporary age from late 18th to 20th Century. The improvement of the building technics and the growing quality of new materials as iron, steel and glass help the avant guardes to develop a new architectural language that can be defined 'modern'. The course will offer introductory lectures to the main periods, the analytic examination of the changes into the cities, architecture and landscape. The biographical profiles of architects and engineers and clients will be a key part of the lectures and seminars. A specific space for 'cinema and architecture' will be included. The students are requested to take part to a seminar named 'Portrait of Cities' which will propose a comparative study of European and American cities. Study trips in the region, in Italy and abroad will be offered to selected groups of students. Thanks to the Erasmus agreements, the course will cooperate with the chairs of History of architecture of the Aalto University in Helsinki and the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm offering seminars in English language and the chance to have exchanges with foreign colleagues.

Development of the examination
LEARNING EVALUATION METHODS
Oral exam including the presentation of the seminar chosen during the course.

LEARNING EVALUATION CRITERIA
The students must prove the capacity of presentation of the seminar and of discussion on the main topics of the subject using also sketches and drawings to describe spaces, ideas, languages of the architecture and city and landscape.

LEARNING MEASUREMENT CRITERIA
Marks between 0 and 30 points

FINAL MARK ALLOCATION CRITERIA
The final mark is the result of the presentation of the seminar and of the questions discussed. Each question will be evaluated with points between 0 and 10. The LODE will be given to the student who reached the maximum marks and shows a complete and mature comprehension of the subject.

Recommended reading
J-L. Cohen, The Future of Architecture. Since 1889, Phaidon 2012 William J.R. Curtis, L'architettura moderna dal 1900, Phaidon 2006 Bruno Zevi, Storia dell'architettura moderna, Einaudi 1975 Bruno Zevi, Saper vedere l'architettura, Einaudi, Torino, 1953

Courses

• Ingegneria Edile-Architettura (Corso di Laurea Magistrale con Riconoscimento Europeo (DM 270/04))