| CODE | BST5002 | |||||||||
| TITLE | The Baroque Route 1: Fortification Building, City Planning and Landscape Design | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | History of Architecture | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The aim of this study-unit is to provide the participants of the post graduate course with an overall idea of the two most important and obvious physical environment relationships that governed the Baroque life style in seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe. The first of these was the dialogue that was created between well planned military defences and the setting out of towns, now dramatized with increasing skill and finesse in Italy and other European countries, where frequent wars or the threat of them produced an outstanding generation of military engineers and city planners of immense influence and prodigious output. The second relationship concerned the equally dramatic dialogue that was after 1600 created between splendid Baroque palaces and man-made landscapes, now expressed in the form of carefully planned and maintained gardens and garden furniture. The Versailles experiment and the two contradictory concepts of landscape design resulting from a need to create a garden of geometric form which would relate to the new urban order and the need to create a garden which would simply be a demarcated area for organic natural growth will be examined in the context of landscape designs in several countries focusing on Italy, France and England. In view of the great importance attached to fortification building in Baroque Europe, this as a reflection of a ruthless political machine and a refined military practice, the study unit attaches great importance to contemporary attack and defense methods, presented as the ultimate raison d'être of a new urban order and as the result of research carried out by such great military engineers as Alghisi, Speckle, Bar le-Duc, Sardi, Floriani, Pagan, Coehoorn, Blondel, Vauban and others. The conclusive lecture will examine in depth some dream cities which were conceived but never built by the flower of Europe's Baroque aristocracy stationed in Malta, as the ultimate defensive outpost of European Catholicism against the Grand Turk. Lecture Titles 1. Origins and underlying concepts 2. The Theory and Practice of Baroque Military Architecture 1 3. The Theory and Practice of Baroque Military Architecture 2 4. The Theory and Practice of Baroque Military Architecture 3 5. The Theory and Practice of Baroque Military Architecture 4 6. City Planning in Rome 1 7. City Planning in Rome 2 8. Baroque Landscape Design 1: The Italian experience 9. Baroque Landscape Design 2: The Versailles experiment 10. Baroque Landscape Design 3: Austria, Germany, Holland, England and Spain 11. Fortification Building and City Planning in Sicily before the 1693 earthquake 12. Fortification Building and City Planning in Sicily after the 1693 earthquake 13. Fortification Building, City Planning and Landscape Design in Baroque Malta 14. Dream Cities of Baroque Malta Study-unit Aims To promote an awareness and understanding of military architecture and city building (including landscape design in palatial residences) during the Baroque age. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: have a good working knowledge and understanding of the subject matter, enabling him/her to pursue research work on any of the topics covered. 2. Skills (including transferable [generic] skills): By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: acquire the necessary research skills for further study on the topics covered in the study-unit. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings To result from student research under the guidance of the lecturer/s concerned. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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