Learning objectives
Provide the basic historical-critical and bibliographical tools for the analysis and understanding of the main movements, achievements and protagonists of this fundamental period. To stimulate the critical sense through the knowledge of historic events and buildings.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the main events of Western culture and civilization from prehistory to the medieval period
Course unit content
This course focuses on architectural space from the dawn of history to the medieval period through an analysis of buildings and their designers.
Full programme
please refer to the images shown in class and uploaded to Elly and to textbooks' lists of contents
Bibliography
Text books:
1) Corrado Bozzoni, et al., L'architettura del mondo antico, Roma, Bari: Laterza, 2006
2) Renato Bonelli, Corrado Bozzoni, Vittorio Franchetti Pardo, Storia dell'architettura medievale. L’occidente europeo, Roma, Bari: Laterza, 2007
3) Carlo Tosco, L’architettura medievale in Italia, 600-1200, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars involving guest scholars, fieldtrips
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam on the program of the lessons and topics covered in the textbooks and additional bibliography
Other information
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