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.