Course Syllabus Architecture and Urbanism in Italy ARC 4950

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1 Course Syllabus Architecture and Urbanism in Italy ARC 4950 ARC 5930 Florida Atlantic University Summer 2, 2017 John Sandell, Associate Professor Course Hours: TBA 3 Credits Course Structure The course is structured in two interrelated parts. The first part focuses on the relationship between the general aspects of urban development and architecture in Venice. It also surveys some aspects of the urban fabric in other cities such as Verona and Florence. The notion of typology as a means of codifying urban and architectural history will be emphasized alongside the meanings and symbols distinct to periods like the Byzantine, Medieval, Gothic, Renaissance, High Renaissance and the Baroque. This part of the course prioritizes our inheritance of historical terms and definitions along side the ability to read and interpret architecture in an urban context that spans a history of over one thousand five hundred years. The second part of the course studies the architectural and urban experience. This part of the course focuses on the dynamics of the city in space, time and human ecology. This part will be looking and image making intensive. Students are expected to participate in all scheduled activities and discussions. This part of the course will also include some discussion on contemporary urban theory and how we can look to the past following the failure of some aspects of 20 th century urban models. Course Goals The primary goal of this course is for each student to gain a general understanding and appreciation of some of the major urban and architectural developments during the history of Western civilization. This goal includes how we interpret strata of architectural and urban interventions by recognizing similarities and differences among phenomena and the role they play in the making of a place. Student Performance Criteria 01 Verbal and Writing Skills 03 Research Skills 07 Human Behavior 09 Uses of Precedents 10 Western Traditions 12 National and Regional Traditions 16 Formal Ordering Systems 36 Context of Architecture Communications Office hours: by appointment Office Location: Tel. (0039) jsandel1@fau.edu Attendance

2 Students cannot be absent from any class. Students absent without a written medical excuse from a licensed physician presented on the physician s official stationary in original form will drop a whole letter grade. Students absent from a required presentation, assignment, or examination will receive without exception, an F for that presentation, assignment or examination. Absence does not absolve the student from homework due the following class. It is each student s sole responsibility to contact someone from the class to get information on the material covered and assignments given. Grading The basic grade, a C, shall depend directly upon demonstration of the minimum standard of learning expected from this course. After the minimum criteria have been met, the final grade will be determined by evaluating the quality of generative research and exploration from commencement through completion of the course. Competency in the course shall be evaluated using class presentations, a mid term paper, a final term paper and class participation. Letter grades for projects and term papers are defined as follows: An A grade is awarded when the student knows and understands exceptionally well the material presented in the class and brings some other understanding, both academic and critical to the subject theme demonstrating the ability to delve deeply into the argument. A B grade is awarded when the student demonstrates a good understanding of the material presented in class. The C- to F grades are awarded when a student s work, effort, and conduct fall below the minimum requirements. Special Needs Students requiring auxiliary aids or services to ensure access to academic programs are encouraged to register with the Office for Students with Disabilities. Required Text & Participation Howard, Deborah. The Architectural History of Venice. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, Texts will also be distributed during class periods. Each student will be responsible for preparing a presentation of the text prior to the following class. Students will be called at random to present the text in full or in part during the class period that follows. Each student called out during class to elaborate on a text will be graded on their ability to explicate and interpret the reading. Therefore, all students are expected to bring all pertinent research notes and assignments to class for discussion and review. Students are responsible for completing all assigned readings prior to class and are expected to participate in related discussions. Participation will count towards your final grade. Course Requirements You will be required to make an oral presentation while in Italy and do a project. The buildings, piazzas, campi and gardens are your study subjects. The due date and topics will be announced during the first week of class. Your sketchbook and class notes are due on June 18. Your final term project will be due on

3 a CD at the end of the semester. Graduate level students will complete a comprehensive report on a specified project. The relative value of each assignment towards your final grade is as follows: Class participation: 10% Term Project: 30% Exams: 60% 1 midterm: 30% + final: 30% Class Participation includes preparedness to discuss readings, promptness regarding meeting points and departures while in Italy. Term project includes completion of sketchbooks and/or photographic studies of the city. Professional and Ethical Conduct Just as clear and concise drawing is essential to the effective communication of architectural ideas, so too is the clear and concise use of language, both spoken and written. The School of Architecture expects students to communicate their ideas effectively and in a professional manner. This includes handwriting or lettering which is legible, correct spelling, proper punctuation and grammar, and referential citations that meet the Modern Language Association (MLA) standards for research and scholarly writing. All course work will be graded with consideration of these issues. An idea, once documented in writing or in drawing, is the intellectual property of the author. When presenting an idea, phraseology, or drawing which is not your own, you are legally and ethically bound to identify your source. To do otherwise is plagiarism and constitutes cheating. Plagiarism will not be tolerated in the School of Architecture. The penalty for cheating is a grade of F on the relevant work and may warrant further academic action including failure in the course, academic probation, or expulsion from the University. If you would like more information about plagiarism and how to avoid making unethical mistakes read the article What is Plagiarism and Why do People Do It? by John R. Edlund at the California State University L.A. website: Student Work The School of Architecture reserves the right to retain any and all student work for the purpose of record, exhibition, and instruction. All students are encouraged to reproduce all work for their own records prior to submission of originals to the instructor. In the event of publication the author or the work will be recognized and receive full attribution.. General Information concerning academic regulations, student rights and responsibilities may be found in the current Florida Atlantic University Catalog and Student Handbook. Personal communication devices such as pagers, beepers, and cellular telephones are to be disabled in class sessions. Course Topics Course Introduction & Early History of Venice Reading Layers of Time in Venetian Architecture The Campi and the notion of Urban Fabric Venice and the Byzantine

4 Medieval Venice Venice and the Gothic Architectural Representation in the Age of Humanism Florence: The Renaissance in a Medieval City Structure Florentine Renaissance Architecture Recognizing Urban Typologies Venice and the Renaissance Vicenza and the Work of Andrea Palladio Venice and the Baroque: A Changing Perspective Verona: Revisiting Typology and Urban Fabric The Work of Carlo Scarpa Modern Interventions in Venice Culture and Time VENICE PROGRAM Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Week 1 Urban Fabric Venice & Venice & Venice & Layers Byzantine Byzantine Byzantine Campi Building Types Torcello Palaces + St. Marks Week 2 Byzantine S. Maria e Donato, Murano Fondaco dei Turchi Medieval Gothic Arch in Age Florentine Intro. Intro Humanism Architecture Field Trip Class Florence Week 3 Rialto/arch attributes of the city, campi, fabric. Classroom Modern Encounter No Class Medieval Gothic Gothic Encounter Field Trip Field Trip Field Trip Modern Ghetto Ecclesiastical Palace Week 4 MIDTERM Venezia Venezia Venezia Ren. Ren. Ren. Vicenza Palazzo Ducale

5 Week 5 Vicenza Venezia Venezia Venice Palladio Baroque Baroque Modern Padova Galileo La Giudecca The Arsenale 17th 18th, decadence Week 6 Venice Modern Scarpa Open Day FINAL EXAM Scarpa Nervi Biennale Stile Liberty Asolo Trento General Bibliography Alberti, Leon Battista, On the art of building in ten books. original title, De re aedificatoria, translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach and Robert Tavenor, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, Albertini and Bagnoli, Carlo Scarpa, Architecture in Details, MIT Press Argan, Giulio C., The Renaissance City, New York, George braziller Inc Bacon, Edmond N., Design of Cities. New York, penguin Books, Benevolo, Leonardo, The architecture of the Renaissance, Volumes I & II. London, First published in Italy in 1968 as Storia dell architettura del Rinascimento. Benevolo, Leonardo. The history of modern architecture. translated from Storia dell architettura moderna. Roma-Bari: Laterza, Battisti, Eugenio, Filippo Brunelleschi: the complete works. translated from the Italian by Robert Erich Wolf, New York: Rizzoli, Borsi, Franco, Leon Battista Alberti, L opera completa, Milano, Electa, Blunt, Anthony, Borromini, Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, Cassirer, Ernst, Kristeller, Paul Oskar, and Randall, Jr. John Herman. The Renaissance philosophy of man, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Cederna, Antonio, Mussolini Urbanistica, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1979.

6 Concina, Ennio, A history of Venetian Architecture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Favro, Diane. The Urban Image of Augustan Rome, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996 Friedman, David, Florentine New Towns, Urban design in the Late Middle Ages, Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, Evans, Robin. Translations from drawing to building and other essays. London: AA Documents, Evans, Robin. The projective cast: architecture and its three geometries, Cambridge, Mass Goy, Richard, Venice, The City and its Architecture, Phaidon, Hallyn, Fernand, The poetic structure of the world, Copernicus and Kepler. New York, Zone Books, Hauser, Arnold. The social history of art, 4 volumes. New York: Hendrix, John, The relation between architectural forms and philosophical structures in the work of Francesco Borromini in seventeenth century Rome. Lewiston, New York: Mellon Press, Hersey, George L., High Renaissance art in St. Peter s and the Vatican: an interpretative guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Hibbert, Christopher, Venice, the biography of a city. London: Folio Society, Hopkins, Andrew, Italian Architecture from Michelangelo to Borromini. London, Thames and Hudson, Howard, Deborah, The Architectural History of Venice, Yale University Press, London and New Haven, Ibid, Venice and the East, Yale University Press, London and New Haven, Kaufmann, Emil, Architecture in the age of reason: baroque and post-baroque in England, Italy and France. Hamden, Conn., Archon Book, Kirk, Terry, The Architecture of Modern Italy, , Princeton Architectural Press, New York Kristeller, Paul Oskar, Renaissance thought and the arts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Idem. Renaissance thought and its sources. New York: Magnuson, Torgil, The Urban Transformation of Medieval Rome, , Stockholm, March, Lionel, Architectonics of Humanism, Essays on Number In Architecture, London, Academy Editions, Millon, Henry A., editor, The Triumph of the Baroque, Architecture in Europe , New York, Rizzoli, Morrissey, Jake, The genius in the design: Bernini, Borromini and the rivalry that transformed Rome. New York: Morrow, Murphy, Richard, Carlo Scarpa and Castelvecchio, Toronto, Butterworth Architecture Murray, Peter, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance, New York, Schocken Books, Oosting, Thomas J. Andrea Palladio s Teatro Olimpico, UMI Research Press Palladio, Andrea, The four books of architecture. New York: Dover Press, 1965.

7 Panofsky, Erwin. Perspective as symbolic form. New York, Zone Books, Idem. Renaissance and Renascences in western art. Stockholm, Norwich, John Julius, A history of Venice. New York, Knopf, Pater, Walter, The Renaissance, studies in art and poetry, the 1893 text. Edited by Donald L. Hill, Berkeley and Los Angeles, Perez-Gomez, Alberto & Pelletier, Louise. Architectural representation and the perspective hinge. MIT Press, Prager, Frank D. and Scaglia, Gustina, Brunelleschi, Studies of His Technology and Inventions, Boston, MIT Press, Rykwert, Joseph, The first moderns, The architects of the eighteenth century. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, Idem. On Adam s house in paradise. New York, Idem. The Idea of a Town, The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, Schumacher, Thomas, The Danteum. Princeton, Princeton Architectural Press, Scribner, Charles, Gianlorenzo Bernini. New York: H.N. Abrams, Taylor, Rabun M., Roman builders. Cambridge, U.K., New York: Cambridge University Press, Teague, Edward H., Index to Italian Architecture, Greenwood Press, New York, Vitruvius, Polio, Vitruvius: ten books on architecture. translated by Ingrid D. Roland, New York, Cambridge University Press, Ward-Perrkins, J.B., Cities of Ancient Greece and Italy: Planning In Classical Antiquity. New York, George Braziller, Wittkower, Rudolf. Allegory and the migration of symbols. London, Thames and Hudson, Idem. Architectural principles in the age of humanism. New York, Norton, Idem. Art and architecture in italy, 1600 to 1750, Harmondsworth, Eng., Baltimore, Md., Penguin, Books, Idem. Selected Lectures, The Impact of Non-European Civilizations on the Art of the West. New York, Cambridge University Press, Wolfflin, Heinrich, Renaissance and Baroque. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1964.

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