Course detail
Theory and Aesthetics
FAST-AG010Acad. year: 2018/2019
Survey of the genres and methods of theoretical debate on architecture. Differentiation of the historically conditioned and the permanent in this debate on the example of the significant Western conceptions from the Antiquity to the 21th century. Selected topics important at the present time.
Supervisor
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 learn 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.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
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. Student prepares a critical review of a selected building in situ.
Language of instruction
Czech
Work placements
Not applicable.
Course curriculum
1. Theory, aesthetics and critics of architecture – definition of disciplines, their subjects and importance
2. Vitruvius
3. L. B. Alberti
4. A. Palladio
5. J. B. Fischer von Erlach
7. C. Alexander
8. N. Salingaros
8.-13. Analysis and debate on the selected contemporary theoretical essays
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.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B-P-C-APS (N) Bachelor's
branch APS , 3. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Theory, aesthetics and critics of architecture – definition of disciplines, their subjects and importance
2. Vitruvius
3. L. B. Alberti
4. A. Palladio
5. J. B. Fischer von Erlach
7. C. Alexander
8. N. Salingaros
8.-13. Analysis and debate on the selected contemporary theoretical essays
Exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Debate on the architecture, urban planning, and the heritage protection in situ.
eLearning
eLearning: currently opened course