2017/18
30722 - Architectural Composition 3
110 - Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
470 - Bachelor's Degree in Architecture Studies
Compulsory
5.2. Learning tasks
Lectures on theory are taught in lecture rooms, whereas seminars, workshops and “crits” take place in smaller groups in seminar rooms through tutorials and individual teaching. Visiting scholars, lecturers and study trips complete the programme of study.
1. LECTURES. Attendance to lectures is strongly recommended
2. SEMINARS. Attendance to lectures is strongly recommended. Seminars are two hours per week. The class is divided in groups of no more than 25 students each. Each section of the course is supported by a seminar to discuss the main works and theoretical writings of the period.
3. OFFICE HOURS. The teachers will have six hours per week of office hours in order to solve the doubts that the students could have. In any case office hours could be used as a substitute for the lectures or the seminars.
4. EXCURSIONS AND TRIPS. An excursion to visit building related with the program could be scheduled during the semester.
5. VOLUNTARY ESSAYS. The students have the possibility to write short essays (should be 1.000 words long) to increase their grade.
6. MID-TERM EXAM will cover the topics explained in the first part of the course and the required readings.
7. FINAL EXAM will cover the topics explained in the second part of the course and the required readings.
MOODLE will be use to update the readings recommended during the course as well as to post grades and further readings. Student should check MOODLE every week.
5.3. Syllabus
Contents:
Course presentation
The turn of the century
C1_ Art Nouveau in Europe: Paris, Brussels, Barcelona… Glasgow and Charles Rennie Mackintosh
C2_ The School of Chicago. The origins of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie Houses
C3_ Viennese Secession. From Otto Wagner to Adolf Loos and his proposal for a ‘Raumplan’
C4_ The rationalisation of the new century. Art and industry: Deutscher Werkbund
Interwar avant-garde
V1_ Abstract and figurative avant-garde: Expressionism in Germany and in the Nederland
V2_ Abstract and figurative avant-garde: Neo Plasticism in the Nederland
V3_ Abstract and figurative avant-garde: Italian Futurism and Soviet Constructivism
V4_ Gropius and the Bauhaus: the Neue Sachlichkeit. Functionalism and Rationalism V5_ Rationalism in Italy: Terragni and the ‘littorio’
The masters of the first generation
M1_ Mies van der Rohe in Europe: neoplastic tectonics
M2_ Le Corbusier: a new spirit. 1918-1939
M3_ Alvar Aalto: from Nordic Classicism to Rationalism al Rationalism
M4_ Frank Lloyd Wright: from Taliesin to Johnson Wax
5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY AND THEORY ‐ FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY
BASIC TEXTS
I. DICTIONARIES:
CALZADA ECHEVARRIA, A.: Diccionario clásico de Arquitectura y Bellas Artes. Serbal, Barcelona, 2003
FORTY, A.: Words and Buildings. A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture. Londres: Thames & Hudson, 2000
MIDANT, J.P. (dir.): Diccionario Akal de la arquitectura del siglo XX. Akal, Madrid, 2004
PEVSNER, N.: A Dictionary of Architecture. Overlook Press, New York, 1966
II. HISTORIES OF ARCHITECTURE:
BANHAM, P.R.: Teoría y diseño en la primera era de la máquina. Paidós Estética, Barcelona, 1985
BENEVOLO, L.: Historia de la arquitectura moderna. Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 1985
COLLINS, P.: Los ideales de la arquitectura moderna, su evolución. GG, Barcelona, 1998
COLQUHOUN, A.: La arquitectura moderna: una historia desapasionada. GG, Barcelona, 2005
CONRADS, U.: Programas y manifiestos de la arquitectura del siglo XX. Lumen, Barcelona, 1973
CURTIS, W.: La arquitectura moderna desde 1900. Hermann Blume, Barcelona, 1986
DAL CO, F. Y TARUFI, M.: Historia de la arquitectura contemporánea. Madrid, Aguilar, 1989
DE FUSCO, R.: Historia de la arquitectura contemporánea. Celeste Ediciones, Madrid, 1992
FRAMPTON, K.: Historia crítica de la arquitectura moderna. Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 1981
GIEDION, S.: Espacio, tiempo y arquitectura. Dossat, Madrid, 1979
GRAVAGNUOLO, B.: Historia del urbanismo en Europa, 1750‐1960. Madrid, Akal, 1991
HITCHCOCK, H.R.: Arquitectura de los siglos XIX y XX. Manuales de arte Cátedra, Madrid, 1981
PIZZA, A., Y GARCÍA, C. (ed.): Historia del arte y de la arquitectura moderna (1851-1933), UPC, 2016
ZEVI, B.: Historia de la arquitectura moderna, Poseidón, Barcelona, 1980.
III. READINGS:
CALVO SERRALLER, F., MARCHÁN FIZ, S., Y GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA, Á.: Escritos de arte de vanguardia. 1900-1945. Istmo, Madrid, 1999
DE MICHELI, M.: Las vanguardias artísticas del siglo XX. Alianza, Madrid, 1995
HEREU, P., MONTANER, JM. Y OLIVERAS, J.: Textos de Arquitectura de la Modernidad. Nerea, Madrid, 1994
IV. MONOGRAPHS:
In general, monographs on architects mentioned in the lectures: Guimard, Gaudí and Mackintosh / Richardson, Sullivan and Wright / Wagner, Olbrich, Hoffmann and Loos / Muthesius, Van de Velde and Behrens / Berlage, De Klerk and Kramer / Taut, Poelzig, Mendelsohn and Häring / Van Doesburg, Van Eesteren and Rietveld / Sant’Elia and Chiattone / Tatlin, Ginzburg and Melnikov / Gropius, Meyer, Hilberseimer and Van der Rohe / Saarinen, Asplund And Aalto / Le Corbusier / Muzio, Terragni, Libera and Ridolfi.