Contemporary Architecture

Through lectures, exercises and guided field trips, the course will deal with certain significant nodes in the culture of the architectural project between the 19th and 21st centuries. Hence, not a sketchy overview of history but a sharp focus on a series of issues – structure, function, aesthetics and social consciousness – through which the identity and images of Modernity were constructed. Field trips: Marseille Capital of culture 2013, Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italian Rationalism in Como, Milan.