Università Roma Tre

The history of western architecture, as well as the architecture itself, is strongly influenced by theoretical and critical structures, as well as the dominant ideology in a specific historical period.
The course includes lessons in chronological order. It will outline the main personalities and the most representative architectural works of the cultural and art scene of the last fifty years. The course will start with the study of the Modern Movement crisis, that is particularly underlined by the dissolution of CIAM in Otterlo in 1959. The avant-garde of the 60s will be analyzed starting from the experiences of Metabolist groups, Archigram, Radicali italiani, to get to the diagrammatic projects of the 90s, through the experiences of the '70s and' 80s: La tendenza, o architettura razionale, and the Post Modern.
Influential personalities, historiographyc and historical background will support the study of the works that have most marked the architectural landscape. These ones will be explained both formally and structurally, as well as the architectural scale to the urban one.

Essays: Fredric Jameson, Il postmoderno o la logica culturale del tardo capitalismo, Garzanti 1989; Anthony Vidler, Il perturbante dell’architettura, Einaudi 2006, or Storie dell’immediato presente, Zandonai 2012

Text book: Elie G. Haddad, David Rifkind, Sarah Deyong, a cura di, A critical history of contemporary architecture: 1960-2010, Ashgate publishing 2014; Marco Biraghi, Storia dell’architettura contemporanea II 1945-2008, Einaudi 2008; William j. R. Curtis, L’architettura moderna dal 1900, Phaidon 1996.