| 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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BENFANTE FLAVIA
(syllabus)
The course aims to encourage the aptitude to read and understand the built environment by refining the ability to analyse and understand historical buildings, even in their ruined state, through the architect's own skills.
The lectures will deal with ancient architecture from a theoretical point of view, through an in-depth study of architectural orders, treatises and metrology; from a typological point of view, analysing the compositional characteristics and evolution of some fundamental public and private architectural typologies of antiquity, including the forum, the baths, the show buildings, the domus, the insulae and the villas; from a technical point of view, reviewing the various construction and structural principles of ancient masonry and the development of vaulted architecture.
The lectures, which will cover a chronological span between the 6th century B.C. and the 4th century A.D., will be accompanied by visits to some monumental buildings in Rome, Tivoli and Ostia.
Course content:
THEORIES
Morphology and syntax of the language of architectural orders.
Vitruvius. How to read and contextualise the De Architectura.
TYPES
The architecture of power: the Imperial Forums in Rome.
The architecture of consensus and integration: the buildings for the spectacle.
The architecture of consensus and integration: the baths.
The architecture of urban living: the domus and the insula.
The extra-urban housing architecture: the villa.
The imperial residences.
Villa Adriana: architectural experimentation and ars topiaria.
TECHNIQUES
Reading ancient masonry: Greek squared stone structures and Roman masonry structures.
Roofing and pushing systems: arches, vaults and domes.
Materials and finishing elements: ancient stones and marbles from quarry to re-use.
The lighting design in ancient architecture.
(reference books)
Materiali didattici:
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 01/03/2024 to 30/09/2024 |
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not 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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STURM SAVERIO
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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, including Rome, Ostia Antica, Tivoli.
Topics:
Ancient architecture and architectural project: Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Modern Rome: the Imperial legacy in the 20th Century.
The temple before the architectural orders.
Public architecture in Athens and Attica.
Late classical and Hellenistic architecture: from the Aegean sea to Latium.
Rome from the conquest of Greece to the Marble city of Augustus.
The Mausolea of Augustus and Hadrian.
Vitruvius and History: Caryatids and Telamons.
The Ionic order in Italic Hellenism.
Introduction of the Doric order in Rome.
Claudius: the archaeologist emperor and the origin of the Rustic order.
The Imperial Forums: Rome and the image of power.
Architecture, consensus and integration: Theatres and Bath buildings.
The otium and the typology of the villa. The imperial residences.
Hadrian's Villa and the legacy of the Roman Villa.
Ancient Marbles: from the quarry to the building yard.
The Roman domes and the Pantheon.
Vaulting techniques from ancient to contemporary.
Hellenistic and Baroque architecture.
The Roman domes between Bernini, Borromini and Guarini.
The Grand Tour and the cult of the Ancient.
(reference books)
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
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 01/03/2024 to 30/09/2024 |
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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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