Università Roma Tre

The course examines the main architects and the most representative architectural works of the cultural and art scene of the last fifty years. Starting with the Modern Movement crisis and the dissolution of CIAM in Otterlo in 1959, the course follows the birth of the avant-gardes (Metabolist groups, Archigram, Super studio and Archizoom) and the work of Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi.
After the short-lived eruption of postmodernism at the 1980 Venice Biennale, architectural modernism has been reconstructed intellectually thanks to inputs from the humanities and also through a reconsideration of its relationship with technology, the arts and the city. Lectures alternate between the analysis of these scenes and the interpretation of major works and issues tackled with by designers such as Álvaro Siza, Renzo Piano, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Toyo Ito, Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, and Rem Koolhaas.

Elie G. Haddad, David Rifkind (a cura di), A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010, Routledge, Oxford 2014.
Marco Biraghi, Alberto Ferlenga (a cura di), Architettura del Novecento. Opere, progetti e luoghi, voll. II-III, Einaudi, Torino 2013.
Michael K. Hays, Architecture. Theory since 1968, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass 2000.
Joan Ockman, Architecture Culture 1943-1968, Rizzoli, New York 1993.

The lessons will focus on Italian architecture after the second World War and particularly on the architectural production between social, political and cultural changes of last ‘60s and the introduction of Postmodern architecture in Venice Biennale of 1980. Main topics – such as the crisis of Modern architecture, new avant-garde proposals, the debate on relation between art, architecture and urban development, the identity of architectural discipline and the relation with History and new building technologies – will be discussed considering the work of main architects and analysing the most important architectures of the period.

M. Tafuri, Storia dell’architettura italiana 1944-1985, Einaudi, Torino 1982.
F. Dal Co (a cura di), Storia dell’architettura italiana. Il secondo Novecento, Electa, Milano 1997.
M. Biraghi, Storia dell’architettura contemporanea 1945-2008, vol. II, Einaudi, Torino 2008.
J. L. Cohen, The future of architecture since 1889, Phaidon, London 2012.
M. Biraghi, A. Ferlenga, Architettura del Novecento. Teorie, scuole, eventi, vol. I, Einaudi, Torino 2012.
M. Biragi, A. Ferlenga, Architettura del Novecento. Opere, progetti e luoghi, voll. II-II, Einaudi, Torino 2013.