Class Architecture History III

The curricular unit of History of Architecture III focuses on the critical analysis of the role of architecture and urbanism in the international context in response to the broad issues of modernity. We seek to understand the emergence and transformations in modern industrial society and the role that architects and urban planners played in responding to architectural, urban and territorial challenges. This understanding of the modern architectural history is structured based on its determining places and historical moments, summoning the main figures and central works that mark these ideological and material transformations. The knowledge acquired in this unit makes it possible to bring students closer to the modern architectural project and its new fundamental issues and problematics, in the continuity of the previous History of Architecture courses with an international scope.

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1. Utopian Socialists' reformist models: Jean-Battiste Godin, Familistere, Guise, 1859. 2. Chicago School's vertical construction: Louis Sullivan & Dankmar Adler, Auditorium Building, Chicago, 1889. 3. Art Nouveau's total spatiality: Antoni Gaudi, Mila House, Barcelona, 1910. 4. Secession´s exalted racionalism: Otto Wagner, Caixa Postal, Vienna, 1906. 5. Modern Machine's dynamic tecnology: Pierre Chareu, Maison de Verre, Paris, 1931. 6. Modern Movement's functionalist abstraction: Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, Dessau, 1926. 7. Modernism's experimental organicism: Frank Lloyd Wright, Johnson Wax Headquarters, Racine, Wisconsin, 1939. 8. Modern Revision's synthesis between racional and symbolic: Le Corbusier, La Tourette Monastery, Éveaux, 1957. 9. Modern Revision's synthesis between modernity and tradition: Alvar Aalto, Municipality, Saynatsalo, 1952. 10. High-Tech's technnological utopia: Renzo Piano & Richard Rodgers, Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris, 1977.

Classes of History of Architecture III will consist mainly of three complementary strands. On the one hand, expository sessions will be held by the teacher of the subjects of the course, duly accompanied by audiovisual material. On the other hand, readings of texts and visualization of documentaries will be carried out selected from the historical and theoretical themes under study, in order to promote the collective critical debate. Finally, the development of the students' work will be monitored throughout the semester, through discussion and guidance with the teacher.  The evaluation of this curricular unit consists of three aspects: 1. Presentation in class by groups of Documentary of the "Architectures" series of case study proposed by the teacher (40%). ; 2. Elaboration of individual or group Historical Essay of the case study, to be presented in class in the end of the semester (50%) 3. Attendance and Participation (10%).

BANHAM, Reyner. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age. Reed, 1960. BENEVOLO, Leonardo. Storia dell'Architettura Moderna. Gius / Laterza, 1992 [1960]. COHEN, Jean-Louis. The Future of Architecture Since 1889: A Worldwide History. Phaidon, 2011. FRAMPTON, Kenneth. Modern Architecture: A Critical History. Thames & Hudson, 1992 [1980]. GIEDION, Sigfried. Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition. Harvard University Press, 1969 [1941]. RODRIGUES, José Manuel (ed.). Teoria e Crítica de Arquitectura: Século XX. Ordem dos Arquitectos / Caleidoscópio, 2010. TAFURI, Manfredo; DAL CO, Francesco. Modern Architecture 1/2. Harry N. Abrams / Academy Editions / Electa, 1979-80 [1976]. TOURNIKIOTIS, Panayotis. The Historiography of Modern Architecture. The MIT Press, 1999. ZEVI, Bruno. Storia dell'Architettura Moderna. Einaudi, 1950