HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGES AND TECHNIQUES
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: Vittorio FIOREExpected Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding through: the reading of selected case studies in the panorama of historical architectural heritage, based on a methodology that allows to combine technological innovation and lexical changes of architecture; the recognition and placing of a work in the chronological and technological panorama of the construction process;
- strengthen the ability to transfer methodologies to other architectural artifacts, in different and new contexts;
- demonstrate ability to apply knowledge, and skills: in solving unfamiliar problems, placed in interdisciplinary contexts related to their field of study; continuing to study and face independently new scenarios that will arise in the course of professional life;
- acquire the ability to integrate knowledge and manage the complexity of the case studies, as well as make judgements on the basis of assumptions, limited or incomplete information, including reflection on social and ethical responsibilities related to the judgments made;
- to be able to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner the conclusions and assessments, as well as the knowledge, assumptions and rationale underlying them, to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.
Course Structure
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
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Textbook Information
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Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
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| 1 | Course contents and basic terminology: history, language, technique/technology, architecture. | -- |
| 2 | Adopted methodology and recurrent terminology: topos, tipo, tettonica. | -- |
| 3 | System concept: The systemic reading of architecture. | -- |
| 4 | Greco-Gothic and Neo-Gothic: the Anglo-French origins of the tectonic form | -- |
| 5 | The origin of tectonics: German Enlightenment (1750-1870); K.F. Schinkel. | -- |
| 6 | F. Lloyd Wright and textile tectonics | -- |
| 7 | Auguste Perret: classic rationalism and reinforced concrete | -- |
| 8 | Mies van der Rohe: rationalism | -- |
| 9 | Walter Gropius and Bauhaus | -- |
| 10 | L. Kahn: new monumentality. | -- |
| 11 | J. Utzon: transcultural form and tectonic metaphor | -- |
| 12 | C. Scarpa: the joint design | -- |
| 13 | Technologies for the traditional built : dealing with technical elements and their declination by age and material culture. | -- |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The assessment of knowledge and preparation will take into account the mastery of the content and skills acquired, the linguistic accuracy and lexical properties, as well as the argumentative ability demonstrated by the candidate//a.
Active participation in the lessons promotes the acquisition of specific disciplinary skills and the ability to integrate knowledge related to new or unfamiliar issues, also thanks to the possibility of critical discussion of the topics covered.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
2. Stone materials and slippage of flat surfaces in the free plants of Mies van der rohe.
3. Guidelines from the theories on architecture of Abbot Laugier ("Essai sur l'architecture", 1775).
4. Influence of F. Lloyd Wright on Jorn Utzon in the museum project.