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No specific skills are requested.
The course aims at stimulating the interest of the students towards the critical historic analysis of architecture. The lessons given in the course intend to draw a critical outline of the main paths followed by western architecture from the Roman age to the XVIII-XIX century. Amongst the different urban, social and cultural contexts, the basics of the architectural languages and the principal planning criteria of the past are taken into consideration, analysing the main formal, spatial and typological expressions of architecture, conveniently related to its elementary building and structural features.
Outline of western civil and religious architecture from the Roman age up to the XVIII-XIX centuries.
-Roman urban planning and the Roman town. Roman civil and religious architecture during the republican and the imperial age. • Religious architecture of the early Christian age (IV-V sec.). • Religious Byzantine architecture of the Giustinian age (VI sec.). • Architecture of the high Medieval and Carolingian age (VII-IX sec.). • Architecture in Italy between the X and the XII century. • French religious architecture between the XII and the XV century. Italian religious architecture between the XII and the XIV century. Hints to the Medieval town. • The Italian Humanism in the first decades of the XV century. Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti. • Hints to the humanistic architectural culture in Urbino, Pienza and Rome. • Architectural culture in Milan in the second half of the XV century and the beginnings of Donato Bramante. - The Renaissance architecture in the first decades of the XVI century: the works of Bramante in Rome. The pupils of Bramante and the cultural crisis of the second decade of the XVI century: Raffaello, Peruzzi, Giulio Romano. • The architectural works of Michelangelo between Florence and Rome. • The Venetian Cinquecento: hints to Michele Sanmicheli and Jacopo Sansovino. The works of Andrea Palladio. • The counter-reformation: religious architecture in Italy in the second half of XVI century. • Architectural culture in Rome in the XVII century. The works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, hints to Pietro da Cortona e to Rainaldi. • Italian architecture of the first XVIII century. Filippo Juvarra and Luigi Vanvitelli. • Main problems of French and English architecture between the XVII and the first XVIII century. • Beginnings of the Neoclassic architecture in Italy and Europe between the XVIII and the XIX century.
Textbooks. As basic support, to one's choice between: - AA. VV., Lineamenti di Storia dell'architettura, Sovera, Roma 2006 (and following editions). - D. Watkin, Storia dell'architettura occidentale, Zanichelli, Bologna 2007 (and following editions).
As compulsory deepening: - J. Summerson, Il linguaggio classico dell'architettura, Einaudi, Torino 1970. - At least one among the books, papers or scientific articles suggested during the lessons, to one's choice in relation to the personal interests developed towards the different topics of the Course.
Ex cathedra lessons, with the visual aid of PowerPoint slides. Possible educational visits to meaningful architectures, exhibitions or museums in Brescia and outside Brescia.
No intermediate tests are foreseen. The examination is oral and it is concerned with the subjects discussed during the lessons, as well as with the personal deepenings and the compulsory textbooks.