Università Roma Tre

Objectives
The knowledge of historic architecture is very important to help the students to improve their capacity of understanding the buildings and their design and technical features; this knowledge is gained through the study of the whole of buildings’ motivations, historic context and design features. The wide variety of courses dealing with history of architecture comes from this conviction.
The course of History of Architecture and Methods of Analysis aims at critically retracing the composition process - either ideological, methodical or procedural- at the basis of every architecture; it is directed mainly towards the students of the fourth year of course, that are already aware of the role that history of architecture plays in the architectural process. In particular, the very role of history in relation to architectural design during centuries is at the basis of the disciplinary orientation meant for the topics at hand, avoiding to take into account the use of simple stylistic issues as repertoire-catalogue and preferring the methodological lesson from the past.
Once the intention of considering above all the historical evolution of the design method has been stated, the language will be dealt with closely during the classes, together with the programmatic criteria and the motivations - even ideological - found in the period of time between the Fifteenth century and nowadays.

Contents
ABOVE ALL, THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE DESIGN METHOD WILL BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT. TO THIS AIM, CLASSES WILL DEAL WITH LANGUAGE, PROGRAMMATIC CRITERIA AND MOTIVATIONS, EVEN IDEOLOGICAL ONES, TRACED BACK IN THE PERIOD OF TIME BETWEEN THE FIFTEEN AND NINETEEN CENTURY, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT SPECIFIC FEATURES OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE TOO, WHEN NECESSARY.
THE AIM IS TO UNDERLINE THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF THE ARCHITECTURAL POETICS OF EACH OF THE STUDIED ARCHITECTS, BY COMPARING THEM WITH THE CONTEXT OF THEIR CULTURAL ORIGINS.

REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY WILL BE GIVEN DURING THE COURSE AND ARE LINKED TO THE TOPICS OF CRITICAL WORKS.