Università Roma Tre

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: the great, general themes (the historical contest, the programmes, the ideas); the great figures of architects, the philology and constructive analysis of works (both realized and only planned) and the historiographical interpretations.
A specific series of lessons will point out the intersections between art and architecture.

Sigfried Giedion, Space, time and Architecture, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954.
Reyner Banham,Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Santa Barbara CA: Praeger, 1960.
William J. R. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900, London: Phaidon,1996.
Jean Louis Cohen, The future of architecture since 1889, London: Phaidon, 2012.
Elie G. Haddad, David Rifkind (a cura di), A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010, Routledge, Oxford 2014.

WHIT REFERENCE TO THE ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE OF THE XX CENTURY WE SUGGEST:
Manfredo Tafuri, Storia dell’architettura italiana 1944-1985,Torino: Einaudi,1986.
Giorgio Ciucci, Gli architetti e il fascismo. Architettura e città 1922-1944,Torino: Einaudi, 1989.
Francesco Dal Co (a cura di), Storia dell’architettura italiana. Il secondo Novecento, Milano: Electa,1997.
G. Ciucci, G. Muratore (a cura di), Storia dell’architettura contemporanea. Il primo Novecento, Milano: Electa, 2004.
Marco Biraghi, Storia dell’architettura italiana 1985-2915, Torino: Einaudi, 2013.

This course aims at providing a critical approach towards the “changing ideals” of contemporary architecture, starting from the opposing forces of the notions of classical and modern during the Age of Enlightenment. Through descriptions of different historical and geographical contexts, a selected series of masterworks from XIX to XIX Century will be discussed in terms of form, structure, functions, specifically considering how they have contributed to past and contemporary architectural debate.

M. Tafuri, F. Dal Co, Architettura contemporanea, Milano 1976
R. Middleton, D. Watkin, Architettura Ottocento, Milano 1977
W. Curtis, L’architettura moderna dal 1900, 1996
J. Joedicke, Storia dell’architettura moderna. Sintesi di forma, funzione e costruzione, Firenze 1960
N. Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, Dizionario di architettura, Torino 1981
J. S. Ackerman, La villa : forma e ideologia, Torino 1992
P.R. Banham, Le tentazioni dell'architettura: Megastrutture, Roma 1980