Project Management in Building Construction

Introduction: History and historiography of architecture; architecture as a synthesis of structures, functions and language; Architecture, city and territory: construction and transformation of built space and landscape; building typologies; structural systems: trilithic system, truss, arch, vaults; plans, elevations and sections: methods of representing architecture. 1 From the end of the Middle Ages (1401) to the beginning of the modern age (1492) The fifteenth century. and the search for space-time unity through perspective; the work of the major protagonists: Brunelleschi in Florence, L. Battista Alberti in Florence, Rimini and Mantua and the De re aedificatoria; Filarete and Bramante in Milan; research on the central and longitudinal systems of religious buildings; the architecture of the noble palaces in Florence and Rome; the design of urban spaces: Pienza. 2 From the discovery of America (1492) to the Council of Trent (1545-1563) The pontificate of Julius II: D. Bramante, the new Petrian basilica; the Roman palace (D. Bramante, Raffaello Sanzio, B. Peruzzi, A. Da Sangallo the Younger); Michelangelo in Florence (complex of S. Lorenzo: Medici Chapel, facade, library); G. Romano in Mantua; Michelangelo in Rome (S. Pietro, Campidoglio); J. Sansovino in Venice. 3 From the Catholic Counter-Reformation (1563) to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War up to the so-called "Italian period" (1628-1631) J. B. Da Vignola: the Gesù and the church of the reform; the suburban residences (Villa Giulia, Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola); D. Fontana and the plan of Sixtus V; A. Palladio: the villas and religious architecture; the architectural treaties. In Europe: Jacques Lemercier, François Mansart in France; the monastic complex of the Escorial in Madrid); Inigo Jones in England; C. Maderno and the completion of the San Pietro. 4 From the triumph of the Catholic reform in Italy (1631) to the publication of the Encyclopèdie (1751) Baroque architecture in Rome (G.L. Bernini, F. Borromini, P. Berrettini Da Cortona, C. Rainaldi). In Europe: Louis Le Vau, Claude Perrault and Jules-Hardouin Mansart in France; Versaille the palace and the designed park; Paris and the place Royal; Christopher Wren in England; J.B. Neumann (1687-1753) in Germany. Late Baroque and the new urban spaces in Rome: port of Ripetta (A. Specchi), steps of Trinità dei Monti (F. De Sanctis), piazza Sant’Ignazio (F. Raguzzini); Neopalladianism, Vitruvius Britannicus and the search for a national style in Great Britain. 5 From the Seven Years War (1756-63) to the American and French revolutions (1750-1830) Towards neoclassicism: G.B. Piranesi and its influence on European architecture; Classic and Picturesque Revival in Great Britain: R. Adam, Soane and J. Nash; urban spaces in Italy: piazza del Popolo in Rome, Foro Goiacchino in Naples; Influences of the Enlightenment and Rationalist Theories in European Architecture: M.A. Laugier, J.G. Soufflot, E. Boullèe, C.L. Ledoux; F. Schinkel in Germany. United States of America: neo-Palladianism and T. Jefferson; Washington. The design of specialized building types and public buildings: Parliaments, museums, libraries etc. 6 From the Industrial Revolution to the American Civil War (1830-1861); and from the unification of Italy to the First World War (1861-1914) Classic Romanticism and Revival: H. Labrouste and E.E. Viollet-le-Duc in France; Gothic Revival in Britain: Ruskin, W. Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement; Expansion plans for European capitals: Paris, Vienna, Barcelona and, in the Kingdom of Italy: Rome. The architecture of iron and glass and the great exhibitions in France and England: Paxton, Eiffel; new types and construction technologies: covered markets, galleries, department stores (G. De Angelis in Rome). Historicist eclecticism and renewal of building typologies and techniques in the United States of America: the Chicago School and its protagonists (H.H. Richardson, W. Le Baron Jenney, H. Sullivan; F.L. Wright and the Prairie Houses (1889-1910). Art Nouveau in Europe: V. Horta in Brussels; H.P. Berlage in Amsterdam; H. Van de Velde; C.R. Mackintosh and the Glaslow School; O. Wagner and the Modern Architektur; J. Olbrich, J. Hoffmann and the Viennese Secession; A. Gaudì and Catalan Modernism; the spread of Liberty in Italy. Proto-rationalism and the construction technique of reinforced concrete in the works of A. Perret; Tony Garnier and the Cité industrielle (1901); the rationalism of Peter Beherens and the Deutscher Werkbund; A. Loos; W. Gropius and A. Meyer before the Great War. 7 Between the two world wars (1918-1939) The post-Impressionist figurative avant-gardes and their expressions in architecture: the Futurism of A. Sant’Elia in Italy; German Expressionism (E. Mendelshon); Russian Constructivism (V. Tatlin); De Stijl and neoplasticism: van Doesburg, G.T. Rietveld; the Scandinavian school: G. Asplund and A. Aalto; Rationalism: W. Gropius and the Bauhaus; Mies van der Rohe; Le Corbusier; the Italian Movement for Rational Architecture: M. Piacentini, G. Terragni. 8 From World War II to the end of the Cold War (1945-1991) Post-war reconstruction in Europe: United Kingdom (Greater London Plan and New Towns Acts); France (A. Perret and the reconstruction of Le Havre); Le Corbusier and the Unité d’abitation in Marseille; Hans Scharoun in Germany (the two Berlin and Hans Scharoun). Italy: the "Fanfani plan" and "the ideology of the village" from the post-war reconstruction to the economic miracle. United States of America: F.L. Wright (Broadacre City) and Mies van der Rohe between New York and Chicago. Organic architecture by F.L. Wright and his influence in Europe: A. Aalto, H. Häring, H. Scharoun, W. M. Dudok. From the International style to the crisis of the Modern Movement; Postmodernism: L. Kahn, R. Venturi; M. Botta. 9 Towards the era of globalization Deconstructivism and High Tech (R. Rogers, R. Piano, N. Foster, S. Calatrava, F. Gehry). 21st century architecture a Rom.

Knowledge of the general history of the treated period.

The texts adopted are divided into a basic bibliography (for the knowledge of the course program to be studied only in the parts concerning the topics covered) and an additional bibliography which will be indicated during the lessons.

strongly recommended

The examination consists of: an oral interview, during which the student will be subjected to an overall assessment, in relation to the following: 1) knowledge of the topics covered by the program, acquired from active participation in the course lessons and supported by the study of texts indicated in the Basic Bibliography and in the Supplementary Bibliography (in both cases, exclusively with regard to the parts indicated in the program and in the in-depth analyzes related to the exercises to be carried out in the classroom); 2) quality of the work done during the exercises, revised from time to time, to be taken to the exam in full form.

D. Watkin, Storia dell’architettura occidentale, (London 1986), Bologna: Zanichelli (1990) 2016 (6a ed.) P. Murray, L'architettura del Rinascimento italiano, Editori Laterza, Bari, (1986) 2006 R. Wittkower, Arte e architettura in Italia 1600-1750, Torino, Einaudi, (1972) 1993 E. Dellapiana, G. Montanari, Una storia dell’architettura contemporanea, Novara: UTET– De Agostini, (2015) 2021 (2a ed.)