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The Laboratory, with compulsory attendance, aims at developing in the students the capacity, even if at an elementary level, with the critical historic analysis of architecture. Supported by seminars and lectures, the Laboratory intends to shed a first light on the methodological principles of the scientific research in the field of the historical disciplines, and namely in the field of the history of architecture, guiding the students in drawing up an research on specific subjects and problems of the architectural history.
Monographic research on a topic of architectural history related to the program carried out in the course and within the chronological period considered by the course. The topic may be related to Brescia or its area, or to the main subjects of Italian and foreign history of architecture, while giving preference to subjects that are easily accessible to the students. The research is conducted also through visits in libraries and archives and inspections, metric and photographic surveys to historic architectures in Brescia or outside Brescia. Special seminars on the research topics are held by the teaching team, so as to set the different topics in the broader frame of the history and the historiogrphy of architecture.
Introduction and presentation of the research topics. Assignment of the research subjects and set up of the research groups. Seminars related to the research themes given by the teaching team. Indoor and outdoor development of the research deepening. Indoor tutoring and guidance of the research work. Completion of the research.
Beyond the specific bibliography related to the Laboratory research, suggested by the tutors in the meetings with the students during the Laboratory, these books are to be read: -A. Bruschi, Introduzione alla Storia dell’architettura. Considerazioni sul metodo e sulla storia degli studi, Mondadori, Milano 2009 (or following editions). -one, at student’s choice, between: M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o mestiere di storico, Einaudi, Torino 1969 (or following editions). F. Chabod, Lezioni di metodo storico, Roma - Bari, Roma-Bari 1978 (or following editions).
During the Laboratory the students, individually or in small groups, have to draw up a research deepening and a critical historic analysis on a subject freely chosen in a shortlist of topics, different every academic year, proposed by the teaching team. A dedicated tutor, who leads the work program, guides the students and the groups. In order to accomplish their deepening, the students have to work also in libraries, archives, museums, research institutes and have to visit, survey, take sketches and pictures of the studied architectures. The results of this outdoor activity are to be assembled in class through different steps of work followed by the tutor and helped by specific lessons and seminars given by the teaching team. The students are admitted to the exam only when their research deepening is considered accomplished at the tutor’s discretion. The research deepening and all the research materials must be recorded on a cd-rom, according to the times and the instructions given by the tutor, and the cd-rom have to be consigned to the teaching team at the moment of the examination.
Tutors weekly revise the development of the research work by meeting the students in class.