Università Roma Tre

The foundation and change of cities in history.

The knowledge of historic architecture is very important to help the students improve their capacity of understanding the buildings and their design and technical features; this knowledge is gained through the study of the whole of buildings’ motivations, historic context and design features. The wide variety of courses dealing with history of architecture comes from this conviction.
The course of History of Architecture and Methods of Analysis aims at critically retracing the composition process -either ideological, methodical or procedural- at the basis of every architecture; it is directed towards the students of the fifth year of course, that are already aware of the role that history of architecture plays in the design process. In particular, the very role of history in relation to architectural design during centuries is at the basis of the disciplinary orientation meant for the topics at hand, avoiding to take into account the use of simple stylistic issues as repertoire-catalogue and preferring the methodological lesson from the past.
Once the intention of considering above all the historical evolution of the design method has been stated, the language will be dealt with closely during the classes, together with the programmatic criteria and the motivations -even ideological- found in the period of time between the Fifteen century and today.

THE COURSE INTRODUCES TO THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK
ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE EXAMINATION OF RELEVANT BUILDINGS. THE MONUMENTS
ARE ANALYZED IN THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT, AS WELL AS IN THEIR
TOPOGRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT: IN URBAN SPACES OR RURAL SHRINES. THE
STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF GREEK TEMPLES IS RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF
ARCHITECTURAL ORDERS. THE MATURITY OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE IS COMPARED
WITH THE SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO THE CULTURAL "GLOBALIZATION"
OF HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN AGES. THE DIFFERENT ARCHITECTURAL TYPES WILL BE
COMPARED WITH MONUMENTS OF LATER PERIODS WHICH WERE INSPIRED BY THE
PRESTIGE OF ANCIENT BUILDINGS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE KNOWLEDGE OF ANCINET
ROMAN VILLAS IS ESSENTIAL IN THE UNDERSTANFING OF THE REBIRTH OF THE
RENAISSANCE VILLA, AS THE ANALYSIS OF MODERN OR EVEN CONTEMPORARY
BUILDINGS IS OFTEN ESSENTIAL FOR A BETTER KNOWLEDGE OF FRAGMENTARY ROMAN
RUINS.

The mathematical tools to grasp modern geometrical thought of the twentieth century (1900's) and the new meaning of "spaces". Interaction between spatial intuition and mathematical formalization, via mathematical treatment and creation of plastic models.

Study of formal implicit structure, normally used in architectural composition, through advanced mathematical analysis to be able to understand and generalize some typical composition processes in the history of Architecture.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST - THE STUDY OF ACQUIRED THROUGH HISTORICAL CONTEXT ANALYSIS AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE PHILOLOGICAL WORKS - is crucial in helping to increase students' ability to "READ" THE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN AND UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES TECHNIQUES.
WIDE OFFER OF COURSES TO BE BORN THIS HISTORY OF CONVICTION.
FACING THE COURSE THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURE IN ROME BAROQUE AND AREAS OF INFLUENCE POLICY, CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC, covering from A PARTY DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL EVENTS, AND TAKING A CUT OF THE OTHER PARTY THEME , IN CONNECTION WITH THE PLAYERS, THE SCHOOLS, THE PRINCIPAL. THE FOCUS OF THE PAPAL EVENTS OF CAPITAL EXPORT EXAMINATION RESULT OF RICH HERITAGE AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN SOME AREAS OF ROMAN BAROQUE ART AND CULTURAL HOMOGENEOUS ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN.

The course examines twentieth century architecture and urbanism beginning with an analysis of the architectural movements that introduced new spatial forms in Europe and America during the first decade of the 1900s