La formazione dell'architetto integrale. Il modello didattico della Scuola superiore di architettura di Roma sotto la direzione di Gustavo Giovannoni (1927-1935)

Gustavo Giovannoni was the director of the School of Architecture in Rome from 1927 to 1935. During this period, he put into practice the theoretical educational model of the architetto integrale, that he conceived in the first years of the XXth century in the cultural environment of the Associazione Artistica tra i Cultori di Architettura. According to this model, the students should be educated to manage both the artistic and the technical aspects of design.The coexistence of these different kinds of skills reveals the identity of the brand-new School of Architecture, which for the first time combined the training of the Schools of Arts and the Engineering Schools, as much as the versatile abilities of its creator. Through the analysis of the activities proposed by the professors, this study tries to show the School’s multidisciplinary approach and its holistic vision of architecture, considered as a fusion, at different scales, of history, construction and design.