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FI-D IT-57 Istoria arhitecturii moderne si contemporane.pdf

Department:

History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation

Course Leader:

conf.dr.arh. Radu Ponta

Learning outcomes:

Understanding the significance of architectural evolution during the studied period in relation to contemporary architectural practices and the built heritage of the 20th century.
By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
 Explain the main vectors driving the evolution of modern architecture toward contemporary practice.
 Describe architectural vocabulary elements and compositional principles of buildings and ensembles from the studied period.
 Apply the acquired knowledge to concisely formulate relevant ideas using specialized terminology.
 Analyze architectural objects and ensembles from the studied period within their social, political, economic, artistic, and cultural contexts.

Content:

Introduction. Preconditions – 19th Century
America. The High-Rise Office Building. Prairie Houses and European Reflections of British and American Domesticity
The Year 1900. France, Belgium, Spain, Scotland, Austria, and Germany
Futurism. The Manifesto and the Ideal Project
De Stijl. The Limits of Abstraction in Architecture
Le Corbusier and the Paris Scene of the 1920s
Constructivism. The Spatial Arts for a New Society
Bauhaus. Pedagogy and Experimentation
Die Neue Sachlichkeit. Internationalization and the Founding of CIAM
Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union in the 1930s
Architecture During World War II
Monumentality and "As Found"
Exceptions – Team 10 and Berlin
Postmodernism in Europe and America
Contemporary Architectural Maps. Between Formal Searches and Professional Ethics

Teaching Method:

Lectures with illustrations, text analysis, image analysis, discussions, commentaries and commented questions

Assessment:

Written Exam

Bibliography:

Reading list
Main references:
General histories, critical histories
 Curtis, William J. R., Modern Architecture Since 1900, Phaidon, 1982
 Frampton, Kenneth, Modern Architecture, A Critical History, Thames & Hudson, 1981
 Heynen, Hilde, Architecture and modernity: a critique, MIT Press, 1999
 Colquhoun, Alan, Modern architecture, Oxford University Press, 2002
 Mallgrave, Harry Francis, Modern Architectural Theory. A Historical Survey, 1673–1968, Cambridge University Press, 2005
 Guillén, Mauro F., The Taylorized beauty of the mechanical: scientific management and the rise of modernist architecture, Princeton University Press, 2006
 Cohen, Jean-Louis, The Future of Architecture. Since 1889, Phaidon, 2012
 Collins, Peter, Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950, 1965
 Banham, Reyner, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, 1960

Historiography
 Tournikiotis, Panayotis, The Historiography of Modern Architecture, MIT Press, 1999
 Vidler, Anthony, Histories of the Immediate Present. Inventing Architectural Modernism, MIT Press, 2008

Dated Histories
 Kaufmann, Emil, Von Ledoux bis Le Corbusier. Ursprung und Entwicklung der autonomen Architektur, 1933
 Giedion, Sigfried, Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, 1941
 Pevsner, Nikolaus, An Outline of European Architecture, 1942
 Zevi, Bruno, Storia dell’architettura moderna, 1950
 Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1958
 Benevolo, Leonardo, Storia dell'architettura moderna, 1960
 Tafuri, Manfredo, Teorie e storia dell'architettura, 1968

Additional reading suggestions provided for each topic.