This course focuses on the world history of architecture from the mid-20th century to today. The analysis of a set of written and architectural works is aimed to provide the students of the intellectual tools to understand today’s outstanding architectural tendencies in a historical perspective.
Marco Biraghi, Storia dell’architettura contemporanea II, Einaudi, Torino 2008;
to compare with one among:
K. Frampton, Storia dell'architettura moderna (parte II cap. 19,21,22, 25, 26, 27, parte III), Zanichelli, Bologna 2008
W. J. R. Curtis, Architettura moderna del Novecento, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 1996 (cap. da 22 a 35)
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010, a cura di E.G. Haddad, D. Rifkind, Ashgate, Farnham Burlington 2014.
Learning Objectives - Part B
Prerequisites - Part B
Teaching Methods - Part B
The course includes lectures, visits and field trips. Those will either take place in group or recomended to be done individually.
Further information - Part B
Type of Assessment - Part B
Oral test. Examinees are asked to highlight topics through definitions, connections and citations of works.
Course program - Part B
The course covers the following topics:
1. The late works of Modern Movement
2. The origins of International style and the post –ww2 development of the skyscraper
3. Ph. Johnson, SOM, Saarinen, Niemeyer
4. Louis I. Kahn
5. Post-ww2 Italian architecture
6. From Ciam To Team 10
7. Neo-avant-gards
8. James Stirling
9. Scandinavia
10. Spain and Portugal in the second half of the century
11. Five architects NY
12. The Aldo Rossi case.
13. Post-Modernism
14. The second machine age
15. Japan
16. Minimalism
17. Decostruttivism
18. Frank. O. Gehry
19. Jean Nouvel and virtual reality
20. Rem Koolhaas