| 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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4
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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ICAR/18
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Contact Hours
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50
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Type of Activity
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Elective activities
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Derived from
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21010008_1 ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: THEORIES, TYPES, AND TECHNIQUES - PART 1 in Master of Science - Restoration LM-4 MUSSOLIN MAURO
(syllabus)
COURSE TOPICS
THEORIES:
Morphology and syntax of the architectural orders' language.
Vitruvius: how to read and contextualize De Architectura.
TYPES:
Architecture of power: The Imperial Fora in Rome
Architecture of consensus and integration: Entertainment buildings and baths.
Urban residential architecture: Domus, insulae, and villae.
Imperial residences: The Palatine and the Domus Aurea.
Architectural experimentation and ars topiaria: Hadrian’s Villa.
TECHNIQUES:
Ancient masonry: Greek ashlar structures and Roman masonry techniques.
Roofing and thrust systems: Arches, vaults, and domes.
Materials and finishing elements: Ancient stones and marbles from quarry to reuse.
(reference books)
TESTI OBBLIGATORI
Paul Zanker, La città romana, Laterza, 2013.
Corrado Bozzoni, Vittorio Franchetti Pardo, Giorgio Ortolani, Alessandro Viscogliosi, L’architettura nel mondo antico, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006.
Cairoli Fulvio Giuliani, L’edilizia nell’antichità, Carocci, Roma 2021 (o edizioni precedenti).
SEMINARI: LETTURE
Pier Nicola Pagliara, Vitruvio da testo a canone, in Memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana, III: Dalla tradizione all'archeologia, a cura di Salvatore Settis, Einaudi, Torino 1986, pp. 5-85.
Salvatore Settis, Futuro del 'classico', Einaudi, Torino 2004.
Salvatore Settis, Continuità, distanza, conoscenza: tre usi dell'antico, in Memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana, III: Dalla tradizione all'archeologia, a cura di Salvatore Settis, Einaudi, Torino 1986, pp. 373-486.
John Summerson, Il linguaggio classico dell’architettura. Dal Rinascimento ai maestri contemporanei, Torino, Einaudi, 1970 (English ed.: The Classical Language of Architecture, London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1963).
Christof Thoenes, Gli ordini architettonici: rinascita o invenzione, in Roma e l'antico nell'arte e nella cultura del Cinquecento, a cura di Marcello Fagiolo, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma 1985, pp. 261-271.
Paul Zanker, Augusto e il potere delle immagini, Einaudi, Torino 2006.
Federico Zeri, L'arco di Costantino. Divagazioni sull'antico, Skira, Milano 2004.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 01/03/2025 to 30/09/2025 |
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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 objectives of the individual module help to define the set of objectives of the entire course.
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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4
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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ICAR/18
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Contact Hours
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50
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Type of Activity
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Elective activities
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Derived from
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21010008_2 ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: THEORIES, TYPES, AND TECHNIQUES - PART 2 in Master of Science - Restoration LM-4 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.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 01/03/2025 to 30/09/2025 |
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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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