Università Roma Tre

This course covers a temporal space between the last decade of XIX century and the end of XX century and gets through the complexity of historical tangles, which carried out to the birth of the modern forms and its rise. It is considered as a wide-ranging space which comprises not only the works of the innovative architects, bound up with the avant-garde or with the great ideals (like the design of machinery or the organicism), but also the works sometimes revolutionary that refers to the vernacular tradition.
This course is divided into four lines: a) the great, general themes (the historical contest,the programmes,the ideas, Modern and Tradition); b) the great figures of architects;b)the philology and constructive analysis of works (both realized and only planned) and the historiographical interpretations.

Sigfried Giedion, Space,Time and Architecture, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,1954.
William J. R. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900, London: Phaidon Press,1996.
Elie G. Haddad, David Rifkind (ed.), A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture:1960-2010,Oxford: Routledge, 2014.

This course aims at providing a critical approach towards the “changing ideals” of contemporary architecture, starting from the opposing forces of the notions of classical and modern during the Age of Enlightenment. Through descriptions of different historical and geographical contexts, a selected series of masterworks from XIX to XIX Century will be discussed in terms of form, structure, functions, specifically considering how they have contributed to past and contemporary architectural debate.

Robin Middleton, David Watkin, Neoclassical and 19th century architecture, New York 1987.
William J. R. Curtis, Modern architecture since 1900, London 1987
Nicolaus Pevsner, J. Fleming, H. Honour, A dictionary of architecture, London 1975