ARCHITECTURE ON PRE-EXISTENCES
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- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- BENEDETTA CAGLIOTI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- ICAR/18
Training objectives
- The main method places the events in their chronological succession, to illustrate, in a general framework, the historical process referred to the concreteness of architecture, in their development over time and in different places.
The student is led to acquire the principles and the constructive lexicon that regulated the formal and structural composition through a cognitive process. This process tends to critically evaluate the design epilogue in constant change and development. In this sense, the various currents, the main exponents, the commissions and the related artistic production will be analyzed both in relation to the historical environment and to the formal and aesthetic aspects.
The series of chronological lectures, starting from the Roman era to the nineteenth century, that this course proposes, is an educational opportunity for recognizing the fundamental role of history in understanding pre-existing buildings and the design logics that generated architecture and art in the past times. The course aims to the acquisition of a preparatory cognitive instrumentation within the management of the existing heritage. Prerequisites
- The required prerequisites concern the basic knowledge of history and the main architectural works starting from the classical world.
Course programme
- The lessons will follow a chronological order, from the Roman era to the nineteenth century, selecting the most significant interventions on the pre-existing structures for each historical period.
Roman period: imperial age and Trajan's forum;
Early Middle Ages: from early Christian to Carolingian culture;
Late Middle Ages: Romanesque and Gothic culture;
Humanism and Leon Battista Alberti: Malatesta Temple in Rimini;
16th century: Bramante, Peruzzi, Raphael and Michelangelo;
The phenomenon of the Jesuits: the Roman College and the church of St. Ignatius;
Seventeenth century: urban interventions in Rome and the works of Borromini;
Eighteenth century: Winckelmann, the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii, Quatremère de Quincy, Francesco Milizia, French National Convention;
Nineteenth century: edict of Cardinal Pacca, the reconstruction of the Basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura;
Nineteenth century: the restoration of the Colosseum and the Arch of Titus. Didactic methods
- The course takes place through lectures. The chronological lessons are flanked by specific in-depth monographic lessons, linked to a particular historical moment or to a character or a particular work.
Learning assessment procedures
- The methods for verifying knowledge and skills consists of a single oral interview. The teacher proceeds with the verification with some questions on the topics addressed in class. The final evaluation consists of a mark expressed in thirtieths. To pass the exam it is necessary to acquire a minimum score of 18/30.
Reference texts
- Maria Piera Sette, “Il restauro in architettura: quadro storico”, 2001
G. De Angelis D’Ossat, Restauro: architettura sulle preesistenze, diversamente valutate nel tempo, in Palladio, III s.a., XXVII, n. 2, 1978, pp. 93-118;
G. Miarelli Mariani, Gli architetti del Rinascimento davanti ai monumenti medievali, in Presenze medievali nell’architettura di età moderna e contemporanea, a cura di G. Simoncini, Milano, 1997, pp. 73-85;
P. Fancelli, Demolizioni e restauri di antichità nel Cinquecento romano, in Roma e l’antico nell’arte e nella cultura del Cinquecento, a cura di M. Fagiolo, Roma, 1985, pp. 357-406;
P. Fancelli, Le rovine tra spolia e restauri, in Leon Battista Alberti. Umanisti, architetti e artisti alla scoperta dell’antico nella città del Quattrocento, a cura di F.P. Fiore, Milano, 2005, pp. 56-68.
