HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

The course aims to provide a basic knowledge of the history of ancient and modern architecture. The lectures will suggest the correct methodological approach to the study of the discipline and will promote understanding and the appropriate use of specific terminology. At the end of the course students will be able to recognize, describe and critically comment on architectural artifacts and be able to interpret architectural achievements in relation to particular historical, cultural, geographical, social and artistic context.

The lectures will illustrate key moments of the architectural history from its origins to the twentieth century. In particular, a cycle of monographic lectures will analyze in depth some exemplary outcomes of the Byzantine architectural culture developed from the sixth to the twelfth centuries

A – Methodological tools and approaches (1 CFU)

• A. Bruschi, Introduzione alla storia dell’architettura. Considerazioni sul metodo e sulla storia degli studi, Mondadori Università, Milano 2009, pp. 31-103.

B – Outline of architectural history from its origins to the twentieth century (7 CFU)

• D. Watkin, Storia dell’architettura occidentale, Zanichelli, quarta edizione, Bologna 2012 [prima ed. ital. 1990], pp. 3-710.

C – Architecture in Byzantium from the VI^th to the XII^th centuries (1 CFU)

C. Mango, Architettura bizantina, Electa, Milano 2009 [prima ed. 1977], capp. 1 (pp. 5-7), 2 (pp. 7-17), 5 (pp. 55-86), 7 (pp. 106-138).