Summer Semester 2007/08
Summer Semester 2009/10
Summer Semester 2010/11
History of Architecture 2 AWN2039
Course content:Ideas and structures of the Renaissance architecture: Bruneleschi. Alberti. Bramanta and the problem of centralised buildings. Circle of Rafael (Bramante & Gulio Romano). Buonarotti - architecture as a sculpture. Manierism on the architecture og G.Romano i B.Peruzzi. Classicist perfection of the architecture of Palladio. Architecture of Vignola. Characteristics of baroque style - principle of subordination. Architecture of F.Borromini. Palace & garden residential structures entre cour et jardin in Versailles. late baroque architecture. Rococo style in Europe. Neo-classicism in architecture.
Learning outcomes: Knowledge on European architecture from 15th to 18 th c.in order to understand its role in own projects
(in Polish) Rodzaj przedmiotu
Course coordinators
Bibliography
a) basic references:P.Murray, The architecture of Italian renaissance; R.Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Yale U.P., N.Haven-London 1999
b) supplementary references:J.M.Merz, Pietro da Cortona and Roman Architecture, Yale U.P., N.Haven-London 2008