Università Roma Tre

The course of History of Architecture and Methods of Analysis is conceived in two integrated parts (Part 1 and Part 2) and aims at critically retracing the composition process - either ideological, methodical or procedural - at the basis of every architecture, in the period of time between the Fifteen century and the Contemporary Age, in order to help the students improve their capacity of understanding the buildings and their design and technical features. Part 1, structured in a chronological sequence of lessons, considers above all the historical evolution of the design method, and deals closely with the language, together with the programmatic criteria and the motivations -even ideological- found in masterworks of architecture.
Part Two aims at enhancing graphic means and cultural strategies underlying different historiographic approaches suggested in Part 1, with a particular interest in the diagrammatic architectural representation across centuries.
Thanks to the comparison between primary and secondary sources, as well as between miscellaneous texts and images related to particular topics, students acquire a new awareness in reading and interpreting different forms of architectural representation (built or virtual), and through collegial discussions– in form of open seminars in class – they acquire skills in oral and visual expressions, essential for a critical experience of the space as well as for any further historic investigation.