History of Architecture II

Pre-requisites: Prerequisites are prescribed by the Statute of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.

Course objectives: Introducing candidates to various forms of theoretical and practical conception and creation of sacred and profane architecture and its individual components, in the period from Ancient to Postmodern Art.

Course description: Theoretical segment of teaching involves a historical and phenomenological analysis of all aspects of architecture at a level appropriate for doctoral studies. The emphasis is on presentation, interpretation and evaluation of its fundamental elements, trends, continuity and changes that are taking place in its creation and comprehension in the period from Late Antiquity to Deconstructionism. Practical part of teaching in its interactive form is focused on perceiving characteristic contemporary modes of receiving visual features of architecture, its theoretical and ideological superstructure, attitude towards religion and political systems. Axis of the content is an analysis of historical sources dedicated to architecture, which are considered both in relation to accomplished architectural works, as well as with regard to theoretical positions and practices in other forms of artistic activity in a specific period.

Learning Outcomes: Candidates are qualified for independent research of specialistic issues in certain areas of the history of architecture.

Literature/Reading:

• A. Fosijon, Život oblika, Beograd 1964.
• R. J. Mainstone, Developments in Structural Form, Harmondsworth 1983.
• Th.Mathews, Early Churches of Constantinople:Architecture and Liturgy, University park and London 1971.
• L. James, Light and Colour in Byzantine Art, Oxford 1996.
• C.Hahn, Seeing and Believing: The Construction of Sanctity in Early Medieval Saints’ Shrines, Speculum 72-4 (1997), 1079-1106.
• Vitruvije, Deset knjiga o arhitekturi, Beograd 2000.
• C. Mango, The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453. Sources and Documents, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1972.
• F.J. Baldovin, The Urban Character of Christian Worship, Rome 1987.
• Abat Suger and its Art Treasures on the Abbey Church of St. Denis, ed. by E. Panofsky, Princeton 1979.
• M.Traktenberg, I.Hajman, Arhitektura od preistorije do postmodernizma, Beograd 2006, 277-583.
• Dž.Samerson, Klasični jezik arhitekture, Beograd 2004.
• P.Marej, Arhitektura italijanske renesanse, Beograd 2005.
• Istorija moderne arhitekture 1 (prir.M.R.Perović), Beograd 1997.
• A. Kadijević, Estetika arhitekture akademizma (19-20.vek), Beograd 2005.