Abstract
This section displays the work produced by the students of the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra (DARQ, UC) for the courses History of Architecture III and History of Architecture IV in the academic year 2016-2017. The main theme for the practical works of both course units was Biographies of Power: Personalities and Architectures. The work was exhibited in the gallery of DARQ, UC in September 2017. The works presented for Biographies of Power: Personalities were focused on the passage of testimony between Louis Sullivan and F. L. Wright. While they crucially contributed to the identity of a modern and American architecture, they carried out a professional and personal relationship that was also guided by the measurement of forces. The work done by the students for Biographies of Power: Architectures resulted from an observation of a set of buildings that goes beyond their architectural and physical contours, or which precisely searches for their actual description, in the light of any ideology that is ultimately represented or even reinforced by its own architectural condition.
Highlights
The course unit History of Architecture III presents the most decisive moments, authors and works from the history of architecture, beginning in the eighteenth century and focusing on the nineteenth century and on the manifestations of the modern avant-garde in the early twentieth century
The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution are understood as determining the features of the historical process, and Europe as the central stage, with occasional detours to the United States of America. This period is understood as the search of an adjustment to the forces of modernity that are being unleashed, only fully achieved with the advent of modern architecture
Contradictions are evidenced as cultural signifiers: between the advances of the iron and glass industry and the retreats of the medieval / pre-Raphaelites, Augustus Pugin and John Ruskin; in the idealization of the city by the utopian socialists, the reformists, the culturalists and the progressives; the modernity of the Chicago School and the reactionary stance of the Columbian Exposition with the ‘betrayal’ of Daniel Burnham; the encounter and mismatch between the master Louis Sullivan and the disciple Frank Lloyd Wright in the conception of an American architecture; the Art Nouveau ornament and the relentless criticism of Adolf Loos; the avant-garde in its various manifestations, futurism, expressionism, neoplasticism, constructivism
Summary
The course unit History of Architecture III presents the most decisive moments, authors and works from the history of architecture, beginning in the eighteenth century and focusing on the nineteenth century and on the manifestations of the modern avant-garde in the early twentieth century. Contradictions are evidenced as cultural signifiers: between the advances of the iron and glass industry and the retreats of the medieval / pre-Raphaelites, Augustus Pugin and John Ruskin; in the idealization of the city by the utopian socialists, the reformists, the culturalists and the progressives; the modernity of the Chicago School and the reactionary stance of the Columbian Exposition with the ‘betrayal’ of Daniel Burnham; the encounter and mismatch between the master Louis Sullivan and the disciple Frank Lloyd Wright in the conception of an American architecture; the Art Nouveau ornament and the relentless criticism of Adolf Loos; the avant-garde in its various manifestations, futurism, expressionism, neoplasticism, constructivism.
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