Course detail

History of Architecture V.

FAST-AG25Acad. year: 2013/2014

Survey of the history of 20th-century architecture ranging from the situation before the First World War to the contemporary works. Rivalry and pervading of the Modernism and the conservative streams, the contribution of each of them from the points of view of the period propaganda and the present time. The outstanding personalities in the world and in the Czech lands.

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 avantgardist architecture in the first half of the 20th century.
Student gets the knowledge of the traditionalist architecture in the first half of the 20th century.
Student gets the knowledge of the avantgardist architecture in Bohemia and Moravia.
Student gets the knowledge of the architecture of socialist realism.
Student gets the knowledge of the urban planning in the period 1900-1960.

Prerequisites

The subject connects with the knowledge of the preceding period of the history of architecture – the Antiquity, the Middle ages, the Modern Age, the 19th-century architecture and Early Modernism.

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. Style pluralism – 18th- and 19th-century heritage
2. Neoclassicism, Historism and Art Deco before 1939
3. Interwar Avant-Garde Purism, Constructivism and Functionalism
4. Purism and Functionalism in Czechoslovakia in 1918 - 1939
5. 1918 – 1939 Brno architecture
6. Totaliarian regime architecture in the thirties and forties – Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union
7. Fifties and sixties in the Western World, high-tech architecture
8. Postmodern architecture
9. Architecture in Czechoslovakia in 1945 – 1989
10. Late century architecture – destruction, minimalism
11. Late century architecture – regionalism, creative individualism
12. Late century architecture – the Czech lands
13. Late century architecture – Brno scenery

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Knowledge of the history of architecture, the Neoclassicism and the Historism, the interwar Avant-Garde, the Czechoslovak Functionalism, the fifties and sixties, the postmodern architecture, the late 20th century architecture.

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

Švácha Rostislav: Od moderny k funkcionalismu. Odeon, 1985. (CS)
Frampton Kenneth: Moderní architektura: Kritické dějiny. Academia, 2004. 9788020012616. (CS)
Koryčánek, R.: Česká architektura v německém Brně. Era Brno, 2004. 9788086517315. (CS)
Kratochvíl Petr a kol.: Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české: Architektura. Paseka, 2009. 9788074320019. (CS)

Recommended reading

Pechar J. - Urlich P.: Programy české architektury. Odeon, 1982. (CS)
Vybíral, J.: Mladí mistři. Argo Praha, 2002. 9788072034741. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-APS Bachelor's

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

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. PhDr. Martin Horáček, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Style pluralism – 18th- and 19th-century heritage
2. Frank Lloyd Wright
3. Avant-Garde in the Architecture of Italy and the Netherlands
4. Avant-Garde in the Russian Architecture
5. Bauhaus
6. Bohemian Architecture 1918-1939
7. Josef Gočár
8. Moravian Architecture 1918-1939
9. Traditionalism in the Architecture of Western Europe 1900-1945
10. Traditionalism in the Architecture of the USSR
11. Socialist Realism in Czechoslovakia
12. Brutalism
13. Louis Kahn