| ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: THEORIES, TYPES, AND TECHNIQUES
(objectives)
The course aims at offering the students the tools for analysing and understanding ancient architecture through a didactic strategy based both on an historical process-based outlook (crucial for an architect's background) and more practical design-based topics, highlighting traditional materials and building techniques, structural behaviour of traditional construction, principles of architectural design, the architectural language of classical orders.
During the lessons the students will be encouraged to understand a ruined construction through diagrams and sketches as well as to have a a structural approach to the building techniques used in Greek and Roman architecture. In order to gain a wide understanding of classical architecture the classes and site visits will focus on the aesthetical issues of classical architecture, the political significance of Imperial architecture in Rome, metrology, design issues, the context in which the buildings were designed and built, the historical sources, ancient treatises.
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Code
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21010008 |
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Language
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ITA |
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Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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| Module: ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: THEORIES, TYPES, AND TECHNIQUES - PART 1
(objectives)
The course aims at offering the students the tools for analysing and understanding ancient architecture through a didactic strategy based both on an historical process-based outlook (crucial for an architect's background) and more practical design-based topics, highlighting traditional materials and building techniques, structural behaviour of traditional construction, principles of architectural design, the architectural language of classical orders.
During the lessons the students will be encouraged to understand a ruined construction through diagrams and sketches as well as to have a a structural approach to the building techniques used in Greek and Roman architecture. In order to gain a wide understanding of classical architecture the classes and site visits will focus on the aesthetical issues of classical architecture, the political significance of Imperial architecture in Rome, metrology, design issues, the context in which the buildings were designed and built, the historical sources, ancient treatises.
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Language
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ITA |
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Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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6
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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ICAR/18
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Contact Hours
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75
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Type of Activity
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Core compulsory activities
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Teacher
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ORTOLANI GIORGIO
(syllabus)
Contents of lessons
The course introduces the history and the architecture of buildings in Ancient Mediterranean from the 7th century BC to the 4th century AD, examined through a multidisciplinary approach based on the archeological evidence, the technical and functional aspects, and the historical significance. The course takes place in the first semester, and the program includes field-trips to archaeological sites and monuments, during which special drawing-assignments may also be done. Central to the course is the study on location of major monuments and archeological sites in central and southern Italy, including Rome, Ostia Antica, Pompeii, Herculaneum and Paestum.
Topics
1. From Auguste Choisy to Pierre Gros: epistemology on ancient architecture.
2. Construction techniques and structural principles of dry and mortared masonry.
3. Post and lintel and arched construction.
4. Ashlar masonry in Greek and Roman architecture.
5. Origins of vaulted construction: Mycenae and Assyria.
6. The construction process: from the quarry to the construction site.
7. Vitruvius' "On Architecture".
8. Religious and public buildings in Greece (Athens and Magna Graecia).
9. Architecture in Rome from Augustus to Hadrian.
10. Welfare and consensus: theaters and bath buildings.
11. The Image of power in the architectural program of the Imperial fora and mausolea.
12. Building Roman Greece and Constantinople.
Exams
The exam is oral or written and individual. Student's knowledge and critical skills will be evaluated, also based on their capacity to refer to a historic frame; they are expected to know the contents of the different books of Vitruvius, and analyse the main features of the most relevant monuments of each historic period, and of the classical orders, through diagrams and sketches.
(reference books)
Bibliography
Bozzoni C., Franchetti Pardo V., Ortolani G., Viscogliosi A., L’architettura nel mondo antico, Roma – Bari 2006, chapters by G. Ortolani and A. Viscogliosi
Gros P., L’architettura Romana, 1. Edifici pubblici, Milano 2001, chapters 4-6
Vitruvius, De Architectura: books 1-4
Zanker P., Augusto e il potere delle immagini, Torino 2006: chapters 1-3
Vitti P., Building Roman Greece. Innovation in Vaulted Construction in the Peloponnese, Roma 2016, chapters 1 and 4
See also:
https://architettura.el.uniroma3.it/mod/folder/view.php?id=379
https://ftp.arch.uniroma3.it/
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 01/03/2020 to 30/09/2020 |
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
At a distance
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Attendance
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Mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Oral exam
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| Module: ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: THEORIES, TYPES, AND TECHNIQUES - PART 2
(objectives)
The course aims at offering the students the tools for analysing and understanding ancient architecture through a didactic strategy based both on an historical process-based outlook (crucial for an architect's background) and more practical design-based topics, highlighting traditional materials and building techniques, structural behaviour of traditional construction, principles of architectural design, the architectural language of classical orders.
During the lessons the students will be encouraged to understand a ruined construction through diagrams and sketches as well as to have a a structural approach to the building techniques used in Greek and Roman architecture. In order to gain a wide understanding of classical architecture the classes and site visits will focus on the aesthetical issues of classical architecture, the political significance of Imperial architecture in Rome, metrology, design issues, the context in which the buildings were designed and built, the historical sources, ancient treatises.
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Language
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ITA |
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Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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2
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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ICAR/18
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Contact Hours
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25
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Type of Activity
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Core compulsory activities
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Teacher
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vitti paolo
(syllabus)
The course is focused on the history of architecture of buildings in Ancient Mediterranean from the 7th century BC to the 4th century AD, examined through a multidisciplinary approach based on the archeological evidence, the technical and functional aspects, and the historical significance. The course takes place in the first semester, and the program includes field-trips to archaeological sites and monuments, during which special drawing-assignments may also be given. Central to the course is the analysis of the context, the building techniques employed in antiquity, the structural solutions adopted by ancient builders, the design and building process and the use of architectural orders. The focus will be on major monuments and archeological sites in central and southern Italy, including Rome, Ostia Antica, Pompeii, Herculaneum and Paestum. Topics treated along the course may include:
1. From Auguste Choisy to Pierre Gros: epistemology on ancient architecture.
2. Construction techniques and structural principles of dry and mortared masonry.
3. Post and lintel and arched construction.
4. Ashlar masonry in Greek and Roman architecture.
5. Origins of vaulted construction: Mycenae and Assyria.
6. The construction process: from the quarry to the construction site.
7. Vitruvius' "On Architecture".
8. Religious and public buildings in Greece (Athens and Paestum).
9. Architecture in Rome from Augustus to Hadrian.
10. Welfare and consensus: theatres and bath buildings.
11. The Image of power in the architectural program of the Imperial fora and mausolea.
12. Building Roman Greece.
(reference books)
Bozzoni C., Franchetti Pardo V., Ortolani G., Viscogliosi A., L’architettura nel mondo antico, Roma – Bari 2006, chapters by Ortolani and Viscogliosi
Gros P., L’architettura Romana, 1. Edifici pubblici, Milano 2001, chapters 4-6
Vitruvius, De Architectura: books 1-4
Zanker P., Augusto e il potere delle immagini, Torino 2006: chapters 1-3
Vitti P., Building Roman Greece. Innovation in Vaulted Construction in the Peloponnese, Roma 2016, chapters 1 and 4
Papers from Academia.edu:
Jackson M., Kosso C. 2013, Scientia in Republican Era Stone and Concrete Masonry
Jackson M. et alii 2011, Building materials of the Theatre of Marcellus
Jackson M et alii 2014, Mechanical resilience and cementitious processes in Imperial Roman architectural mortar
Lancaster C. L., Materials and Construction of the Pantheon in Relation to the Developments in Vaulting in Antiquity
Ortolani G., Le Terme dei Romani disegnate da Andrea Palladio, ed. Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi
Ortolani G., Vitruvio (I, 1, 5) e la cultura dell’architetto: Cariatidi e telamoni nell’architettura ‘imperiale’
Vitti P., 2014. Il Mausoleo di Adriano, costruzione e architettura
Vitti P., 2010. Argo, la copertura ad intercapedine della grande aula: osservazioni sul sistema costruttivo della volta
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 01/03/2020 to 30/09/2020 |
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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Mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Oral exam
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