Course detail

History of Architecture IV.

FAST-AG24Acad. year: 2013/2014

Survey of the history of 19th-century and early 20th-century architecture on the background of the revolutionary breakthrough caused by the Industrial Revolution and the victory of the Enlightenment. Basic information ranging from the Classicism and the Empire Style both in the foreign countries and in the Czech lands, the Romanticism in architecture, the historism in Europe, America and the Czech land, conditions of the Modern Movement origin, its theoretical background, to the concrete manifestations in the works of the most outstanding personalities.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. PhDr. Martin Horáček, Ph.D.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student gets the knowledge of the European architecture of the 19th century.
Student gets the knowledge of the Czech architecture of the 19th century.
Student gets the knowledge of the Art Nouveau architecture.
Student gets the knowledge of the early modernist architecture.
Student gets the knowledge of the urban planning and theory of architecture in the 19th century.

Prerequisites

The subject connects with the history of the Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Modern Age.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Informations are given through lectures and presentations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Student will pass an exam in the form of written test.

Course curriculum

1. Industrial Revolution and the impact of social changes on the evolution of architecture
2. Classicism and the Empire Style in France, England, Germany, Russia and America
3. Classicism and the Empire Style in Bohemia and Moravia
4. Romaniticism in England, France and Germany
5. Romanticism in the Czech and Moravian lands
6. Historism in Europe and America
7. Neo-styles in Bohemia and Moravia
8. Roots of the Modernism: Victorian engineering, Art Noveau, Arts and Crafts
9. European Art Noveau (Horta, van de Velde, Gaudí, Mackintosh, Wagner and others)
10. Art Noveau in Bohemia and Moravia (Fanta, Balšánek, Jurkovič, Kotěra and others)
11. Forefield of the Modernism in the U.S.A., the Chicago School
12. Architecture of the individualistic Modernism
13. Individualistic Modernism in Bohemia and Moravia

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Knowledge of the history of architecture, the Industrial Revolution and architecture, the Classicism and the Empire style in the foreign countries, the Classicism and the Empire Style in the Bohemian lands, the beginning of the Modern Movement, Art Nouveau, the architecture of the individualistic Modernism.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Raeburn, M.: Dějiny architektury. Odeon Praha, 1993. 80-207-0185-0. (CS)
Zatloukal, P.: Příběhy z dlouhého století. MU Olomouc, 2002. 80-85227-49-5. (CS)
Kratochvíl Petr a kol.: Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české: Architektura. Paseka, 2009. 9788074320019. (CS)

Recommended reading

Haas, F.: Vývoj architektury a umění v 19. a 20. století. SNTL Praha, 1983. (CS)
Pijoan, J.: Dějiny umění. Euromedia Praha, 2000. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-APS Bachelor's

    branch APS , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. PhDr. Martin Horáček, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Historicism and Stylistic Pluralism in the Architecture of the 18th Century
2. Architecture of the first Half of the 19th Century in England and France
3. Architecture of the first Half of the 19th Century in Germany (Klenze, Schinkel)
4. Architecture of the first Half of the 19th Century in Austria, Bohemia and Moravia
5. Architecture of the second Half of the 19th Century in England and France
6. Architecture of the second Half of the 19th Century in Germany
7. Architecture of the second Half of the 19th Century in Austria, Bohemia and Moravia
8. Roots of the Modernism: Victorian engineering, Art Noveau, Arts and Crafts
9. European Art Noveau (Horta, van de Velde, Gaudí, Mackintosh, Wagner and others)
10. Art Noveau in Bohemia and Moravia (Fanta, Balšánek, Jurkovič, Kotěra and others)
11. Forefield of the Modernism in the U.S.A., the Chicago School
12. Architecture of the individualistic Modernism
13. Individualistic Modernism in Bohemia and Moravia