Courses 2025-26
History of architecture III/IV
This course is concentrated on the history of Western architecture during the so-called ‘long Renaissance,’ a period that spans between the 15th and the 19th centuries.
The origins of domestic space
The course is part of a three-year trajectory dedicated to a comprehensive history of domestic space. This year the course will be devoted to the origins of domestic space, from hunter-gatherer forms of life to the rise of private property.
Superstudio: Negative Utopia, An Illustrated History of the Villa
This Superstudio will study the history of the villa by focusing on 30 case studies, from antiquity to the last century. The aim of this study is to understand through the architecture of the villa the most quintessential tropes of architecture: form, politics and representation.
Courses 2024-25
Domestic space in the 20th century
“Look Back in Anger”: This course is part of a three-year trajectory dedicated to a comprehensive history of domestic space and its relationship with urban form, from prehistory to Neoliberalism.
The adventures of rationalism II
The course traces the recurring reemergence of a rational approach in design and building form throughout the history of Western architecture, from the Middle Ages to the late 20th century.
Bad Books
This is a methodological PhD course focused on the history and close reading of a book that has been important in the history of architecture. The course is the second episode of a cycle of lectures and seminars on the studies of Microhistory.
Courses 2023-24
The origins of modern domestic space
The course is part of a three-year trajectory dedicated to a comprehensive history of domestic space and its relationship with urban form from its prehistoric origins to Neoliberal times.
The adventures of rationalism
The course traces the recurring reemergence of a rational approach to design and building form trough the history of Western architecture, from the Middle Ages to the late 20th century.
Harmony and Conflicts
This is a methodological PhD course focused on the history and close reading of one case study and the construction of its historical broader context.
Courses 2022-23
The origins of domestic space
The course is part of a three-year trajectory dedicated to a comprehensive history of domestic space and its relationship with urban form. This year the course will be devoted to the origins of domestic space, from hunter-gatherer forms of life to the rise of private property.
Reading Manfredo Tafuri
Negative Creep: Reading Manfredo Tafuri, Today. The course offers a systematic introduction of the architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri’s body of work to students in order to ease their reading of his often difficult work and discover its contemporary relevance.