2012-13 Master, sem II Prof. Dr. Sonja Hildebrand, Thomas Hnsli, dipl. arch. ETH

Concepts of Creativity

Written papers themes and dates for oral presentation

13.3.

Regola Abuso

1.1

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Vestibule of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, 1530ff.

1.2

Giulio Romano, Palazzo del Te, Mantua, 152434

1.3

Stefano Maderno, S. Cecilia in S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome, 1600

1.4

Francesco Borromini, SantIvo della Sapienza, Rome, 164350/1660

1.5

own proposals

20.3.

Rhetoric and Baroque Art

2.1

Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes,15981599

2.2

Gianlorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 162223/25

2.3

Emanuele Tesauro, Il cannocchiale aristotelico, 1670

2.4

Andrea Pozzo, S. Ignazio, Frescos, Rome, 1688/9194

2.5

own proposals

27.3.

Ingenio Genius

3.1

The divine Michelangelo: Vasaris Vite, 1550

3.2

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Medici Chapel (Sagrestia Nuova), Florence, c. 1524

3.3

Gianlorenzo Bernini, Cappella Cornaro in S. Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 164752

3.4

William Duff, An Essay on Original Genius, 1767

3.5

Immanuel Kant, Critica della facolt di giudizio, 1790, 4450

3.6

Johann Georg Sulzer, Allgemeine Theorie der Schnen Knste, vol. 3, 1793, entry

Originalgeist (German required!)

3.7

Goethe, On German Architecture, 1772 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Memorial chapel for Queen

Louisa of Prussia in gothic forms, project 1810

3.8

own proposals

17.4.

The human power to invent

4.1

Boulle, Architecture. Essay on Art, c. 1794

4.2

Goethe, Simple Imitation of Nature, Manner, Style, 1789

4.3

Gottfried Semper: creating in analogy to nature (London lecture of November 11, 1853)

4.4

Ruskin, The Lamp of Life, 1849

4.5

own proposals

24.4.

Psychologizing artistic production

5.1

Cesare Lombroso, Luomo di genio, 1888

5.2

Heinrich Wlfflin, Rinascimento e Barocco, 1888

5.3

Wassily Kandinsky, Lo spirituale nellarte, 1912

5.4

Theo van Doesburg, Principi d ella nuova arte plastica, 1919

5.5

Kazimir S. Malevi, Suprematismo, 19275.6

Le Corbusier, In Defense of Architecture, 1929

5.7

own proposals

8.5.

The artist in the field of culture

6.1

Alison and Peter Smithson: Select and Arrange As found

6.2

Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction, 1966

6.3

Superstudio, Invention Design and Evasion Design, 1969

6.4

Ralph Erskine, Byker Wall, 196882: collaborative design

6.5

own proposals