Academic Year 2014-2015
16/09 - Introductory lesson -"Lines of research"
The crisis of the classicism. Presentation of the program, of the method of study and of the examination.
18/09 - The metropolis of the nineteenth century: the form of the modern city.
Paris: the «ville classique» and the Haussmann's renovation of Paris 1853-1858. The Cerdà plan for the extension of Barcelona, 1859. The origins of urban culture in the twentieth century: New York and the zoning code, 1916.
23/09 - Vienna - The "Secession"
Vienna, the creation of the Ring, 1858. Joseph Maria Olbrich: The Secession Hall, Vienna 1898; Darmstadt Artists's Colony, 1901; Feinhals House, Colonia 1908. Joseph Hoffmann: Stoclet Palace, Brussels 1904; Skywa-Primavesi Residence, Vienna 1913. Art Nouveau: a new total style. The eccentric modernisme of Antoni Gaudì.
25/09 - Vienna - The aesthetic principle of the dialectic of opposites.
The Secession. Gustav Klimt: the murals painted in the Burgtheater in Vienna; the works of the period Secessionist Movement and the series of portraits. The Modern Architecture of Otto Wagner in Vienna, Ankerhaus, 1895; Maiolikahaus, 1898; Postparkasse, 1903; Kirche am Steinhof, 1905; the city plan for the large city, Vienna 1910.
30/09 - Vienna - Adolf Loos: the themes of the modern
Theory: Spoken in the Void 1900; Ornement and Crime 1910; Architecture; Potëmkin City; Principles of Building;Glass and Clay; Interiors in the Rotunda; The Poor Little Rich Man; The Principles of Cladding; The Saddle Maker.
Practice: the languages of the absence. Goldman& Salatsch Building, Michaeler Platz, Vienna 1910; Steiner House, 1910. Café Museum, 1899; Scheu House, Horner House. The design for the Chicago Tribune, 1922. Psicologism functional and the raumplan: Maison Tristan Tzara, 1926; Josephine Baker House, Villa Moller, villa Müller, 1930.
02/10 - Steel and glass, engineering and architecture in the Nineteenth Century.
Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture, 1941. Truss bridges and suspension bridge. Tour Eiffel, Paris, 1889. Saint-Geneviève Library, 1844 and the National Library in Paris by Henry Labrouste. The Cryistal Place by Joseph Paxton, London 1851. Art Nouveau: Victor Horta and Hector Guimard. The structure of the first skyscrapers. The "Chicago School"; the Louis Sullivan's theory and the Guaranty Building, Bufalo 1894. Il Chicago Tribune Competition, 1922.
07/10 - Steel and glass, architecture.
The American skyscraper of the 1930s. Mies van der Rohe: Campus IIT in Chicago; the Lake Shore Drive Apartements, Chicago 1949 and the Seagram Building, New York 1954. Paul Scheerbart, Glasarchitektur, 1914.
The theme of the reflection in the glass skyscrapers of Mies in 1921and 1922 and in the Alexanderplatz Competition in 1928. The Lever House, S.O.M., New York 1952. Jean Nouvel, Fondation Cartier, Parigi 1997.
09/10 - Reinforced Concrete: origins, patents and developments in engineering
Patents Monier, 1867, 1878, Hennebique 1892 - Principle of efficiency and economy. Robert Maillart, bridge Zuoz, 1901 and bridge Salginatobel, 1928; Pier Luigi Nervi, Costruire correttamente, 1955; Stadium Florence, 1932, the Sports Palace in Rome, 1956; Unesco office in Geneva, 1958; audience Hall of the Vatican City , 1966. The scultural quality of the renforced concrete; Expressionism and architecture: Erich Mendelsohn and the Einstein Tower in Potsdam, 1920. Steiner's Goetheanum in Dornach, 1923.
14/10 - Reinforced Concrete: the developments in architecture
The sculptual quality of the reinforced concrete. Auguste Perret and the principle of truth: Rue Franklin Apartments, Paris 1903; Braque House, Paris 1927; home Cassandre, 1926; Musée des Traveaux Publics, Paris 1936. Le Corbusier and the reinforced concrete frame: Dom-ino House, 1914, and the open floor plan structure; the journal "L'Esprit Nouveau" and the Purism; Villa La Roche, Paris 1925, Villa Stein Garche, 1926 Villa Savoye, Poissy 1929.
16/10 - The open plan: Wright
The organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, the "prairie houses," Willits House, 1902, Martin House, 1904 Robie House, 1909. Wasmuth Portfolio, Berlin, 1910 and the spread of the open plan (Henny House of Van't Hoff, 1919). The experiments whit the polygonal modules: Honneycomb House, 1936; the role of the technique: Kaufmann House, 1937 and the "Usonian" Houses.
21/10 - The open plan: Mies
The principle of "Less is more". De Stijl (1917): Van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian. Rietveld Schröder House, Utrecht, 1924. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The brick country house project, 1924. The open plan structure of the Barcelona Pavilion, 1929; Villa Tugendhat, Brno, 1930. The architecture of the "almost nothing": house Farnsworth, 1946; Crown Hall, IIT, Chicago, 1950 and the National Gallery in Berlin, 1962. Mies's legacy in the contemporary architecture.
23/10 - The principle of the machine and the rationalist and functionalist architecture
Le Corbusier: Citrohan house. Wright: the tecnique of the textil block, Millard House, 1923. Il Werkbund. Walter Gropius: the theory of "Baukasten Im Großen", 1922. La scuola del Bauhaus, Dessau 1925; Marcel Breuer and the "form follows function" principle. The taylorism principles in the Törten Housing by Gropius, 1926. The primacy of form in the neighborhood of Eigen Haard by Michel De Klerk, 1913-1921.
28/10 - The spread of the rationalist architecture.
The Weissenhof Estate for the exposition in Stuttgart, 1927: Mies van der Rohe, Oud e Stam, Gropius and Le Corbusier. The CIAM and the Athens Charter. Le Corbusier: from living cell to Ville Radieuse. "International Style", New York 1932. Rationalism and functionalism. Richard Neutra, Lovell House, Los Angeles 1929. Architectural culture in Italy: the rationalist architecture of Giuseppe Terragni: Novocomum, Como, 1927 Casa del Fascio, Como, 1932, Kindergarten Sant'Elia, Como, 1934; the classicism of Marcello Piacentini, Piazza della Vittoria in Brescia 1932.
30/10 - The housing question in the modern culture
Engels, The housing question, 1872. The research for alternative systems: the linear city, the garden city of E.Howard, 1902. The research into cost containment with cooperative solutions, industrialization and technical industrial production. The theory of CIAM; W.Gropius and the theory of high house, 1929, and the city cooperative, 1929. Siedlungen and British new towns. Le Corbusier, Plan of Algiers, 1931 and the Unité d'Habitation of Marseille, 1945-1952; the Modulor. Developments of research of the Le Corbusier: the Grands Ensembles; Luigi Carlo Daneri, Quartiere Quezzi, Genoa 1956. Carlo Aymonino, Quartiere Gallaratese, Milan 1967; Mario Fiorentino, Corviale, Rome 1972, Jean Nouvel, Nemausus, Nimes 1987; MvRdV, Silodam, Amsterdam 2002.
04/11- The overcoming rationalism: the deliverance of form
The crisis of the general architectural principles of rationalism: la Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp by Le Corbusier, 1950, the “acoustic space" and “objects of poetic reaction”. Continuity of expressionist architecture: Hans Scharoun, Filarmonica in Berlin, 1956. Jørn Utzon, Opera House in Sydney, 1957. Giovanni Michelucci, Chiesa sull’Autostrada del Sole, Firenze 1968. The research of the synthesis: Le Corbusier, Plan Obus for Algiers, 1931; The Buildings in Chandigarh, 1952. Ludovico Quaroni, Quartiere CEP project in Barene of San Giuliano, Venice 1959.
06/11 - “Organic Architecture” from F.L.Wright to B.Zevi.
The “Modern Mouvement”. The Brutalism: Le Corbusier, Convent La Tourette, 1954. “F.L.Wright: 60 years of Living Architecture”, exposition, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1951. F.L.Wright: Pauson House, Arizona1939 and Jacobs House II, Winsconsin 1944. The Johnson Company building, Racine, 1939; the Guggenheim Museum, New York 1946-1959; Broadacre city. The theory fine art e formative art by W.C. Behrendt, 1937. B. Zevi, Verso un’architettura organica, 1945; Il linguaggio moderno dell'architettura, 1973.
11/11 - The overcoming rationalism: Alvar Aalto - Louis Kahn
Architecture of Alvar Aalto: rationalism and functionalism in Paimio Sanatorium, 1932, the organic architecture of villa Mairea, 1938, Baker House at MIT, Boston, 1947; Cultural Center in Wolfsburg, 1957; tower house in Bremen, 1958. The design process of Kahn: from the idea to the building, the First Unitarian Church, Rochester, 1959, the theory of "ruin" the project for the American Consulate in Luanda, 1959, the Library of Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter 1972, the Government center Dhaka. Tadao Ando Koshino House, 1979 and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002. Architecture of Mario Botta.
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13/11 - “Five Architects”, New York 1969 and Richard Meier.
I “Five architects” and the sources in the rationalist architecture. Architecture by M. Graves; J. Hejduk; P. Eisenman; C. Gwathmey. R. Meier: Smith House, Darien (Ct) 1965; Douglas House, Harbor Spring (Mi) 1971; Weinstein House, Old Westbury (NY) 1969; Frankfurt Museum, 1979; Staathaus, Ulm, 1993; Barcelona Museum Contemporary Art, 1995; Getty Center in Los Angeles, 1997; Jubilee Church, Rome 2000.
18/11 - Neo-rationalism and Aldo Rossi
The sources: Heinrich Tessenow, The Hellerau Festival Theatre, 1910; Gunnar Asplund, Stockholm Public Library, 1920. Neo-rationalism in Italie: Exibition “La Tendenza”, Triennale Milan, 1973. Aldo Rossi, Gallaratese, Milano 1967; the "Teatro del Mondo", 1979; San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena, 1994, Schützenstrasse, Berlin 1992. The “New abstraction" by O.M.Ungers. Architecture by Giorgio Grassi.
20/11 - Postmodern architecture
James Stirling: Florey residential building in Oxford, 1966; History Faculty Library, Cambridge, 1964; Neue Staatgalerie Stuttgart, 1980. “The presence of the Past”, Biennale Architettura Venice, 1980. P.Portoghesi, Dopo l’architettura moderna, 1982. Architecture by Philip Johnson, Ricardo Bofill, Charles Moore. Classicism and vernacular architecture by Leon Krier: Poundburry. The New Urbanism: Le Plessis Robinson and Val d'Europe. R.Venturi: Complexity and contradiction in architecture, 1966.
25/11 - Decostructivist architecture: Eisenman - Tschumi
Russian Constructivism. “Decostructivist architecture”, New York, 1988. Peter Eisenman: the cardboard house (House II, 1969 e House III, 1970); Aronoff Center, Cincinnati, 1986; theory of the “between” and “folding”; Koizumi Sangyo, Tokyo 1990. Bertrand Tschumi, Parc de La Villette, Paris 1982-1990.
27/11 - Decostructivist Architecture: Libeskind - Gehry
Daniel Libeskind, Micromegas, 1979; Jewish Museum Berlin, 1988-1996. Art and architecture in the work of Frank O. Gehry, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 1997; Dg Bank, Berlino 2001.
02/12 - Decostructivist Architecture: Hadid - Koolhaas
Zaha Hadid, Vitra fire station, Weil am Rhein 1993 and LF One, 1999; MAXXI, Roma 1997-2007. Architecture by Coop Himmelblau. Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1972 and his paranoiac-critical method; SMLXL, 1995 and theory of “Bigness”, “Generic City”, “Generic Volume” and “Junkspace”; Villa Dall'Ava, Paris 1991; Jussieu Library project, 1992; Geerlings (Dutch) House, 1995; Lemoine House, 1998; Casa da Musica, Porto, 1999; Parc de la Villette project, 1982; Seattle Central Library, 2004; China Central TV Headquarters, Beijing 2005.
04/12 - High Tech: the integrated architecture engineering design
The Centre Pompidou, Paris by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, 1971. Genealogy of the High-Tech: from Paxton's Crystal Palace, to the domes of Richard Buckminster Fuller and Archigram. Richard Rogers: Headquarters of Lloyd's, London 1986. Norman Foster: Willis Faber & Dumas, Ipswich, 1975; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich 1977; Mediatheque in Nimes, 1993; Terminal Stansted Airport, London 1991.
09/12 - High Tech: Norman Foster - Peter Rice
Developments of the structural types of the skyscraper (1960-1980). Foster: Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, 1986; Reichstag Dome in Berlin, 1999; Millennium Bridge in London, 2000, and Swiss Re Tower, London 2004. The structural glazing of Peter Rice: Greenhouses of the Cité des Sciences, Paris 1981 and the glass wall of the Banque Populaire de l'Ouest et de l'Armorique, Montgermont (Rennes) 1990.
11/12 - Poetic structure - Engineering and art
The “bottega” of Renzo Piano: Museo De Menil, Houston 1981; Terminal Kansai Airport, Osaka 1994; Cultural Center kanak, Noumea 1998; Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern 2005; The Shard, London 2012. The bridges by Santiago Calatrava: Bac de Roda Bridge, Barcelona, 1987; La Devesa Footbridge, Ripoll 1989; Pont de l'Europe, Orleans 2001; Nervion footbridg, Bilbao 1996. Hall of Lucerne railway station, 1989.
16/12 - Japan: culture - architecture - engineering
Architectural culture in Japan between 800-900. Tokyo megalopolis. Tadao Ando, Azuma House, Sumiyoshi-Osaka, 1975; Koshino House, 1979; Ito House, Tokyo 1990; Church of Light, Osaka, 1989; hhstyle, 2006 and 21.21 Design Sight , Tokyo, 2007. Megastructures: Kenzo Tange, Plan for Tokyo Bay, 1960 and Metabolist Movement. The small size: Sou Fuijimoto. "Macchinolatria": M. S. Watanabe e K. Kurokawa, Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo 1972. Toyo Ito: the city in the electronic age, the Tower of Winds in Yokohama, 1986, the Mediatheque in Sendai, 2000; the structure by Mutsuro Sasaki, the Tod's store in Tokyo, 2004. The diagrammatic architecture of Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA), the Museum of Contemporary Art of the XXI Century in Kanazawa, 2004; Christian Dior store in Tokyo, 2005; Rolex Learning Center, Lausanne 2007-2010.
18/12 - “Metamorph”, Biennale architettura Venezia 2004.
Theories and potential of digital architecture: the processes of de-formation and in-formation; NURBS geometric shapes. Projects P.Cook; P.Eisenman, A-Studio; dECOi; Asymptote; Zaha Hadid.
Debate.
