Università Roma Tre

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 archaeological sites in central and southern Italy, in Rome, Ostia, Tivoli.
Topics
1. Introduction: Ancient and Modern Architecture: Michelangelo Buonarroti;
2. Hellenistic Baroque and Baroque Architecture in Rome;
3. Athens and Munich: Ludwig I and Otto von Wittelsbach;
4. Greek architecture: religious and public buildings in Athens (Acropolis and Agora);
5. Late Classical and Hellenistic Architecture: from the Aegean world to the Latium Vetus;
6. Architecture in Rome from the conquest of Greece to the Augustan Age;
7. Vitruvius and Architectural Treaties;
8. Architecture, consensus and integration: Theatres and Bath Buildings;
9. The Imperial Forums in Rome and the Imperial Political Power;
10. The otium and the Roman villas. The imperial residences.
11. Villa Adriana: Collecting and Imagination. The legacy of the Roman villa.
12. From the Pantheon to Aghia Sofia.
13. The Roman domes by Bernini and Borromini.
14. Ancient Marbles: from the quarry to building yard, reuse from the Middle Ages to Baroque era.
15. Architecture in Rome and Mussolini’s regime.

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.

https://architettura.el.uniroma3.it/mod/folder/view.php?id=379
https://ftp.arch.uniroma3.it/

Bibliography
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

The course introduces the history and the architecture of buildings in Ancient Mediterranean from the 7th century BC to the 6th 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 archaeological 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.

https://architettura.el.uniroma3.it/mod/folder/view.php?id=379
https://ftp.arch.uniroma3.it/

Bibliography
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