The Faculty of Architecture / Architecture
IT-5 | Continuity and Discontinuity within the Historic Evolution of the Architectural Phenomenon (II) - from the Renaissance to Revival
Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 2C | ECTS Credits: 2
Department: History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation
- Titular:
- prof.dr.arh. Hanna Derer
- Learning outcomes:
- Presenting the main directions of the specific research by analyzing the architectural phenomenon starting with the Renaissance until the times of revival, by “case studies” approached within the civilization and cultural frame of western Europe.
- Content:
- Titles of the lectures
1. European and Italian preludes: from Vitruv to the Italian proto-renaissance
2. The cradle of early Renaissance: Florence – tradition and innovation in the architecture practice: Filippo Brunelleschi
3. The relationship between architecture theory and practice: the work of Leone Battista Alberti
4. The spreading of the early Renaissance: Lombardia, Urbino, Veneto
5. Centralization and dogma: Rome – the capital of high Renaissance during the time of Donato Bramante
6. The vulnerable center – form and reformation of the content: Renaissance, mannerism and early baroque in the work of Michelangelo Buonarotti
7. Stable and unstable tradition: the late Renaissance in and by the work of Andrea Palladio
8. Reborn center / centers: counter-reformation – content and form of the baroque: Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini in Rome, Guarino Guarini in Turin
9. The spreading of Italian Renaissance throughout Europe: Italian artists in France and „Germany” and British artists in Britain
10. National replicas: evolving classicism in France, German renaissance and Palladianism in Britain
11. The temporary freedom: baroque and rococo as intermezzo
12. Unified national tendencies: classicism in the second half of the 18th century
13. Diversifying options: historism and romanticism in the first half of the 19th century
14. An unifying factor for the European architecture in the 15th - 18th centuries: synchronic view upon the architectural morphology - Teaching Method:
- lectures
- Assessment:
- intermediate evaluation 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
Irwin, David, Neoclassicism, Londra, 1997
Hubala, Erich, Baroque & Rococo, Londra, 1989
Benevolo, Leonardo, The Architecture of the Renaissance, Londra, 1978
Blunt, Anthony (ed.), Baroque and Rococo: Architecture and Decoration, Londra, 1978
Wittkower, Rudolf, Palladio and English Palladianism, Londra, 1974
Portoghesi, Paolo, Rome of the Renaissance, Londra, 1972
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, The Age of Expansion, Londra, 1968
Wittkower, Rudolf, Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600 - 1750, Harmondsworth, 1965
Busch, Harald, Lohse, Bernd, Baroque Europe, Londra, 1962
Wittkower, Rudolf, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, Londra, 1962
Mumford, Lewis, The City in History, Londra, 1961
Pevsner, Nikolaus, An Outline of European Architecture, Harmondsworth, 1943 - Notes:
- As for the education cycle called "Architectural Conservation and Restoration - Sibiu - Bachelor" the lecture pursues the architectural phenomenon until the '60s of the 20th century, thus containing main aspects referring to: Engineers Architecture and the Chicago School, Coup de Fouet, Protorationalism, avangarde from the beginning of the 20th century, De Stijl, Bauhaus, totalitarian architecture, "great masters" - Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier
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