Università Roma Tre

D.M. 270/2004 - A.A. 2019-2020
Corso: S.S.D. L-ANT/10 ARCHAEOLOGY OF STANDING BUILDINGS

PROFESSOR: Maura Medri

LAUREA MAGISTRALE
CFU: 12
Course Programme

Prerequisites
A good English level for reading articles and essays related to the course.

Course contents

The course consists of a single, 10 weeks UD, with 3 weekly lessons scheduled on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. At the end of the course, there will be an on-site lesson at “Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica”.

Programme of Wednesday-Thursday 10 lessons
1. The art of building. The building materials.
2. The art of building. The building techniques.
3. The art of building. Working site organization, walls and foundations.
4. The art of building. Roofing: slabs and roofs
5. The art of building. Roofing: arches and simple vaults.
6. The art of building. Roofing: complex vaults.
7. Stratigraphy of buildings. The basics.
8. Stratigraphy of buildings. Detecting the clues
9. Stratigraphy of buildings. Interpreting the tracks.
10. Stratigraphy of buildings. Analysis of construction phases.

During the following 10 lessons, students could read some articles of choice and discuss them together with the Professor. Please, choose from the list below:
• Lynne C. Lancaster, Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome. Innovation in Context, New York 2005
• Lynne C. Lancaster, Innovative vaulting in the architecture of the Roman Empire : 1st to 4th centuries CE, New York 2015
• Evelyne Bukowiecki, Rita Volpe, Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt (a cura di), Il laterizio nei cantieri imperiali. Roma e il Mediterraneo. Atti del Workshop “Laterizio” (Roma, 27-28 novembre 2014), Archeologia dell’Architettura, XX, 2015.

Programme of Friday lessons
During the Friday’s meeting, there will be 10 lectures given by experts in specific field of the archaeological research. The summary will be published at the beginning of the course.

Textbooks:
- J. P. Adam, L’arte del costruire presso i romani, Longanesi, Milano 1988.
- C. F. Giuliani, L’edilizia nell’antichità, Carocci, Roma 2006 (nuova edizione corredata di CDRom).
- M. Medri, V. Di Cola, Le Terme del Nuotatore. Cronologia di un’insula ostiense, Roma 2013, parte prima.
- M. Medri, Manuale di rilievo archeologico, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003
For more contents, please visit the website: www.archeologiametodologie.com

Other specific texts and articles will be provided during the course. Non-attending students must complete their preparation with integrative textbooks, to be agreed with the Professor.