The Faculty of Urbanism / Urban Design and Planning
1st Year, sem 1, 2011-2012

IT-27 | The Evolution of the Architectural Phenomenon untill the 20th Century

Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 2C | ECTS Credits: 2

Department: History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation
Titulari:
prof.dr.arh. Anca Brătuleanu
prof.dr.arh. Hanna Derer
Learning outcomes:
Structuring the foundation of the specific knowledge by studying the main composition principles present at the scale of the architectural object, that of ensembles and that of sttlements in Europe and in Romania, analyzed from the perspective offered by defining aspects of the civilizations that have conceived them.
Content:
Titles of the lectures:

1. Fundamental types of space - from the neolithic dwellings to the architecture of prehellenic civilization and that of the Etruscan one
2. The religious architecture of the classic Antiquity and its relationships with its context
3. The Middle Ages in Eastern Europe: the byzantine ideal about space
4. The Middle Ages in Western Europe: continuity and discontinuity from Romanesque to Gothic
5. The object more important than its context: Italian early and high renaissance
6. Rebirth of the dialogue between object and context: Italian mannerism and late renaissance
7. Object, context, town: from baroque to romanticism and historism
8. The history of architecture in Romania - introduction to the general features, periods, regions, architectural programs and urban planning
9. The historic regions and their architecture in relationship to the European architecture of the time
10. Renaissance in Transylvania
11. Post-Byzantine architecture (Valachia and Moldavia)
12. Post-Byzantine architecture (Valachia and Moldavia)
13. The 18th century and its phenomenons in the Romanian historic regions
14. The 19th century, general features of modernity
Teaching Method:
lectures
Assessment:
intermediate evaluation and exam
Bibliography:
Ache, J.B., Elements d’une histoire de l’art de batir, Paris, 1970
Fletcher, B. Sir, A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method, Londra, (1897)
Gympel, Jan, The Story of Architecture: from Antiquity to the Present, 2008
Kostof, Spiro, History of Architecture, Oxford, 1985
Mumford, L., The City in History, Londra, 1961
Perogalli, Carlo, Storia dell architettura, Milano, 1973
Roth, Leland, Understanding Architecture: It’s Elements, History and Meaning, 2005
Sutton, Ian, Architecture. A Survey from Ancient Greece to the Present, 2000
Pevsner, N., An Outline of European Architecture, Harmondsworth, (1943)
Watkin, D., A History of Western Architecture, Londra, 1986
Notele de curs dedicate Facultatii de Arhitectura ale
prof.dr.arh. Sanda Voiculescu, Note de curs – antichitatea si evul mediu
prof.dr.arh. Mira Dordea, Note de curs – renastere si baroc

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