AI635 - HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 1 (GRPB)

courses

ID:

AI635

Duration (hours):

80

CFU:

SSD:

STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

ARCHITECTURE/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (29/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)

Course Objectives

General aims of the Course.
The course aims to provide students with the methodological tools necessary to read and interpret contemporary architecture. Lectures will briefly illustrate the development of architectural practice through a carefully selected selection of architects and works presented within their cultural, social, and economic contexts, historicizing the role of clients, design orientations, and execution techniques. The ultimate goal of the course is to enable students to acquire the basic cognitive and critical tools necessary to understand the historical evolution of architecture from the late 18th century to the 21st century, considering its various components. Secondly, it will stimulate reflection and research in relation to the concrete design commitment required in other courses.

Course Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites.

Teaching Methods

Didactic Methodologies
The didactic program is comprised of a series of theoretical lessons and
practical lessons that follow the sequence of topics described in the
program, enhanced by the projection of images and didactic material
(photocopies and slides). Each lesson is followed by a brief discussion in
which the students are invited to express their personal opi
regarding the arguments examined or on the architectural wo
illustrated. In order to prepare for the Examination, students can use all
the didactic material offered by the tutor at the end of the lesson. For
explanations and further detail, individual meetings during the hours of
reception are provided.

Assessment Methods

Assessment methods
The final assessment consists of an oral exam that will
focus on a discussion of the main topics covered during the
lessons and included in the syllabus. Students must demonstrate knowledge of
architectural works in their historical and cultural context by describing,
also with the aid of simple freehand drawings, their formal,
structural, and stylistic characteristics.

Texts

To take the exam, it is mandatory to study the topics in the following texts:
W. J.R. CURTIS, L’architettura moderna del Novecento, Bruno Mondadori,
Milano, 1999.
M. BIRAGHI, Storia dell’architettura contemporanea, Einaudi, Torino, 2008. voll. 2.
For further information:
Enciclopedia Universale dell’Arte (EUA);
Dizionario di Architettura e Urbanistica (DAU);
N. PEVSNER, FLEMING J., H. HONOUR, Dizionario di Architett
Enciclopedia dell’Architettura (Serie Le Garzantine).
Per gli approfondimenti si consiglia di consultare anche la bibliografia di
seguito elencata:
BANHAM R., Architettura della prima età della macchina, a cura di M.
Biraghi, Milano, Marinotti, 2005.
BENEVOLO L., Storia dell’architettura moderna, Laterza, Bari, 1960.
BIRAGHI M., FERLENGA A. (a cura di), Architettura del Novecento, Torino,
Einaudi, 2012, voll. 2.
CIUCCI G., Gli architetti e il fascismo. Architettura e città 1922-44, Torino,
Einaudi, 1989.
DE BENEDETTI M.- A. PRACCHI, Antologia dell’architettura moderna.
Testi, manifesti, utopie, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1998.
LE CORBUSIER, Verso una architettura (1923), a cura di P. Cerri e P.
Nicolin, Milano, Longanesi, 1992.
LOOS A., Parole nel vuoto, Milano, Adelphi, 1972.
MIDDLETON R., WATKIN D., Architettura dell'Ottocento, Milano, Electa,
1977.
PEVSNER N., I pionieri dell’architettura moderna. Da William Morris a
Walter Gropius, Milano, Garzanti, 1983.
ROSSI A., L’architettura della città, Padova, Marsilio,1966.
VENTURI R., Complessità e contraddizioni nell’architettura, Bari, Dedalo,
1980.
ZUCCONI G., La città dell’Ottocento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2001.

Contents
The Course of Contemporary History of Architecture (8 cfu) comprises a
series of lessons ex cathedra with the duration of approximately four (4)
hours each regarding the transformation of the Architectural language
from the second half of the 1700s up to today.

Course Language

Italian

More information

Student reception - Examination procedures
The course takes place in the classrooms of the Department of Architecture in Pescara,
Viale Pindaro 42, during the first semester of the academic year according to the
schedule established by the Dean's Office.
Attendance is mandatory.
The dates and times of the exam are specified in the degree program calendar.
Office hours: first semester after lectures, second semester
on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 2:00 pm at the Department of Architecture,
upon prior notification to the instructor at fiadino@unich.it.