Course detail

Theory and Aesthetics

FAST-AG10Acad. year: 2013/2014

Survey of the genres and methods of theoretical deliberation on architecture. Differentiation of the historically conditioned and the permanent in this deliberation on the example of the significant conceptions of the West from the Antiquity to the 21th century. Selected subjects important at the present time.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. PhDr. Martin Horáček, Ph.D.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will know the most important theorists of architecture.
Student will know the most important theoretical essays on architecture.
Student will recognize different ways of professional architecural discours.
Student will recognize different ways of laymen architecural discours.
Student will know how to think on architecture critically.

Prerequisites

The subject applies the knowledge of the history of architecture including the contemporary architecture and, in the selected connections, it refers to the architectonic composition principles.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Informations are given through lectures and presentations. Seminars are practised through debates at excursions in situ.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Student prepares a critical translation of a selected theoretical study from a foreign language into the Czech or English.

Course curriculum

1. Theory, aesthetics and criticism of architecture – definition of disciplines, their subjects and importance
2. Architecture from the point of view of an architect and that of a historian and a theorist – a non-architect
3. Architecture in the philosophical systems
4. Classical conceptions – Vitruvius
5. Classical conceptions – Alberti and Palladio
6. Classical conceptions – Semper and Viollet-le-Duc
7. Classical conceptions - Wagner and Sitte, problém sof a city
8. Classical conceptions – Le Corbusier and Kahn
9. Function of architecture
10. Style, taste, fashion, architecture and the „lay“ public
11. Tradition and inovation in architecture
12. Architecture and other kinds of arts, design
13. Architect as a co-creator of the environment for (not only) a 21st-century man

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Knowledge of the ideological background of architectural design, architecture and philosophy, criticism in architecture, development of concepts, style, taste, fashion.

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

Alberti, L.B.: Deset knih o stavitelství. Praha, 1956. (CS)
Vitruvius: Deset knih o architektuře. Praha, 1979. (CS)
Kruft, H. - W.: Dejiny teórie architektúry. Bratislava, 1993. [8070950099] (SK)
Gehl, J.: Nové městské prostory. Šlapanice, 2002. 9788086517094. (CS)
Mallgrave, Harry Francis: An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present. Wiley, 2011. 9781444395983. (EN)
Sitte, C.: Stavba měst podle uměleckých zásad. Brno, 2012. 9788087318218. (CS)

Recommended reading

Palladio, A.: Čtyři knihy o architektuře. Praha, 1958. (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. Theory, aesthetics and criticism of architecture – definition of disciplines, their subjects and importance
2. Architecture from the point of view of an architect and that of a historian and a theorist – a non-architect
3. Architecture in the philosophical systems
4. Classical conceptions – Vitruvius
5. Classical conceptions – Alberti and Palladio
6. Classical conceptions – Semper and Viollet-le-Duc
7. Classical conceptions - Wagner and Sitte, problems of a city
8. Classical conceptions – Le Corbusier and Kahn
9. Function of architecture
10. Style, taste, fashion, architecture and the „lay“ public
11. Tradition and innovation in architecture
12. Architecture and other kinds of arts, design
13. Architect as a co-creator of the environment for (not only) a 21st-century man

Exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. PhDr. Martin Horáček, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Debate on the architecture, urban planning, and the heritage protection in situ.