Università Roma Tre

In 2022-2023 the course proposes an examination of the history of ancient, medieval and Renaissance architecture with particular reference to the Mediterranean and European areas.
The course is chronological, from the most ancient architecture to the architecture of the early modern age, and will include some thematic and seminar lessons, focusing on specific aspects, which may also be treated from a diachronic perspective.

PART I. COMPARED ANTIQUITIES: Architectural orders and origin of the temple; Greece and the East. From the Parthenon to the Dydimaion; ancient building techniques; the Etruscans; Roman architecture: tempio and foro; theatres and amphitheatres; domus, villa, palace.
PART II. CULTURES AND CONNECTIONS. FROM THE DECLINE OF ROME TO THE BIRTH OF EUROPE: Rome, Milan, Constantinople, Ravenna; Longobards and Carolingians in Europe; "Proto-Romanesque" and "Romanesque" in Italy and Europe; Monastic orders; Gothic in Europe and Italy.
PART III. ARCHITECTURE IN THE HUMANISTIC AND RENAISSANCE AGES: Filippo Brunelleschi; Leon Battista Alberti; Rome in the 15th century; Vitruvius and Vitruvianism; the courts in Italy: Ferrara and Urbino; Florence and Giuliano da Sangallo; Alfonso of Aragon and Naples; Bramante in Milan and Rome; Raphael and his workshop; Michelangelo in Florence and Rome; From Rome to other centres: Giulio Romano in Rome and Mantua, Jacopo Sansovino in Rome and Venice; Andrea Palladio.

Ancient and medieval european architecture:
 G. Cricco, F.P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell’arte (versione gialla), vol.1: Dalla Preistoria all’arte romana, vol.2: Dall’arte paleocristiana a Giotto, 3a edizione (o altra edizione), Bologna, Zanichelli, 2010
Medieval and early modern architecture:
 A. Naser Eslami, M.R. Nobile, Storia dell’architettura in Italia. Tra Mediterraneo e Europa (VII-XVIII secolo), Milano 2022 (disponibili in edizione cartacea o digitale)

Course topics:
Origins of Ancient Greek architecture: materials, technology and the development of the Doric order; The Ionic order and the relationship with the Middle East; The Panhellenic sanctuaries: Olympia and Delphi; Classical Athens and Attica; Roman architecture at the end of the Republican era in the sanctuaries of Latium and in the City; Augustus and the transformation of the Republic; The Roman Empire and its image: The Imperial Fora; The search for consensus: Theatres, amphitheatres and the thermal structures; The imperial residences; Dome of the Heaven: from Pantheon to Hagia Sophia; From Early Christian architecture to Romanesque architecture in France and Italy; Gothic architecture: tradition and innovation between East and West; Frederick II and Arnolfo di Cambio: Origins of the Renaissance; F. Brunelleschi and L. B. Alberti; Donato Bramante in Milan and Rome; Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and the development of the Roman palace; Mannerism and Michelangelo; The rebuilding of St. Peter's basilica; The church architecture and the Catholic Reformation; The rebirth of the villa in Rome; Andrea Palladio and the Venetian villas.
FOR A CRONOLOGY OF THE MAIN MONUMENTS:

https://www.academia.edu/16882678/Corso_di_Storia_dellArchitettura_1_B_Roma_Tre_University_Department_of_Architecture

C. BOZZONI, V. FRANCHETTI PARDO, G. ORTOLANI, A. VISCOGLIOSI, L’Architettura del mondo antico, ROMA – BARI 2006 (LATERZA);
C. L. FROMMEL, L’Architettura del Rinascimento Italiano, MILANO 2009 (SKIRA).

File Transfer Protocol:
https://ftp.arch.uniroma3.it/

It's strongly suggested to search for further images and texts in websites, such as Academia.edu:
.... selecting the pages related to the study program
https://uniroma3.academia.edu/GiorgioOrtolani
https://www.academia.edu/403458/Ortolani_Lavorazione_di_Pietre_e_Marmi_nel_Mondo_Antico_in_Marmi_antichi
https://www.academia.edu/10108262/Origini_dell_architettura_greca_in_Architettura_del_mondo_antico
https://www.academia.edu/43098075/Origini_dellarchitettura_lapidea_in_Grecia_700-650_a.C
https://ohio.academia.edu/LynneLancaster
https://www.academia.edu/440373/Il_cantiere_del_Colosseo
https://bath.academia.edu/MarkWilsonJones
https://www.academia.edu/14759478/_Who_Built_the_Pantheon_Agrippa_Hadrian_Trajan_and_Apollodorus_in_Hadrian_Art_Politics_and_Economy_ed._Thorsten_Opper_British_Museum_Research_Publication_175_London_2013_31-49
https://www.academia.edu/9641342/Affreschi_Romani_Verona_Arsenale_Editore_2009_pp._240_ISBN_978-88-7743-351-0_
https://www.academia.edu/3590155/_SCAENOGRAPHIA_E_AEDIFICATIO_NELL_ARCHITETTURA_DELLE_CITT%C3%80_VESUVIANE
https://roma3.academia.edu/paolovitti
https://www.academia.edu/16267236/2014._Il_Mausoleo_di_Adriano_costruzione_e_architettura
https://bham.academia.edu/ManthaZarmakoupi
https://www.academia.edu/1213966/Light_design_concepts_in_Roman_luxury_villa_architecture
https://stanford.academia.edu/FabioBarry
https://www.academia.edu/16339032/Walking_on_Water_Cosmic_Floors_in_Antiquity_and_the_Middle_Ages
https://uni-goettingen.academia.edu/ManfredLuchterhandt
https://www.academia.edu/5353212/Rinascit%C3%A0_a_Roma_nell_Italia_Carolingia_e_meridionale_in_S._de_Blaauw_ed._Storia_dellArchitettura_Italiana_Da_Costantino_a_Carlo_Magno_Electa_Milano_2010_pp._322-373
https://polito.academia.edu/DiTeodoroFrancescoP
https://www.academia.edu/9827610/Vitruvio_Piero_della_Francesca_Raffaello_note_sulla_teoria_del_disegno_di_architettura_nel_Rinascimento_Annali_di_architettura_14_2002_pp._35-54
https://palladiomuseum.academia.edu/guidobeltramini
https://www.academia.edu/3126385/Palladio
https://univaq.academia.edu/AndrewHopkins
https://www.academia.edu/25458244/Italian_Architecture_from_Michelangelo_to_Borromini_London_T_and_H_2002