The Faculty of Architecture / Architecture
IT-2 | Continuity and Discontinuity within the Historic Evolution of the Architectural Phenomenon (I) - Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 1C+1S | ECTS Credits: 2
Department: History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation
- Titular:
- prof.dr.arh. Hanna Derer
- Learning outcomes:
- Structuring the foundation of the specific knowledge by studying the main composition principles present at the urban scale and that of the architectural object in antique times and the Middle Ages, analyzed from the perspective offered by defining aspects of the civilizations that have conceived them.
- Content:
- Lectures
The first accumulation periods and the first results: from the beginning of the construction activity to the architecture of Ancient Egypt;
Prelude of the antique classicism: the architecture prehellenic civilizations and that of the Etruscan culture;
Antique classicism: Greece and Rome – from the urban scale to that of the architectural object;
The byzantine Middle Ages: abandoning and creating models;
Intermezzo? Early Christian architecture and the renaissances of the western Middle Ages;
Continuity and discontinuity in the Middle Ages of western Europe: Romanesque accumulations and the Gothic “jump”;
The historic evolution of the architectural phenomenon in whole Europe.
Seminars
The classical antiquity (1): religious architecture of Greece - detail, object, ensemble
The classical antiquity (2): religious architecture of Rome - detail, object, context
The classical antiquity (3): comparative analysis: Greece and Rome - source, replica and innovation
The Byzantine Middle Ages: space, volume and vocabulary of religious architecture
The Western Middle Ages (1): Romanesque architecture
The Western Middle Ages (2): Gothic architecture
The Middle Ages all over Europe: comparative analysis - Teaching Method:
- lectures and seminars
- Assessment:
- intermediate evaluations during seminars and final exam
- Bibliography:
- Roth, Leland, M., Understanding Architecture. Its Elements, History and Meaning, 2nd edition, Westview Press 2007
Ching, F., Jarzombek, M., Prakash, V., A global history of architecture, John Wiley ans Sons, Inc., New York, 2007
Moffett, M., Fazio, M., Wodehouse, L., A World History of Architecture, Laurence King ed., London 2003
Sutton, Ian, L’Architecture Occidentale de la Grèce antique à nos jours, Thames and Hudson SARL, Paris, (1999) 2001
Watkin, David, A history of western architecture, Laurence King ed., Londra 2000
Fletcher, Sir Banister, A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method, Londra, 1987
Ache, Jean Baptiste, Elements d’une histoire de l’art de batir, Paris, 1970
Mumford, Lewis, The City in History, Londra, 1961
Giedion, Sigfried, The Beginnings of Architecture, Oxford, 1964
Pevsner, Nikolaus, An Outline of European Architecture, Harmondsworth, 1943
***, Living Architecture … [Greece, Roman, Romanesque, Gothic] - Notes:
- For didactic and methodical reasons, the lectures are focusing upon the non-religious architecture, while the seminars do stress the religious one.
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