Course Details
Monument Restoration
Academic Year 2023/24
AG008 course is part of 1 study plan
B-P-C-APS (N) / APS Winter Semester 2nd year
Set of basic information on the process of the preservation of the architectonic heritage and its cultural values, aiming at comprehension of the importance of the monument preservation. The principles of determining the conception of monument interventions as a procedure issuing from the construction documents and familiarization with a building and leading to a new functional utilization and rehabilitation of a monument.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Knowledge of the monument restoration and renewal, architectonic heritage, development of the preservation of monuments, methods of the preservation of monuments, legislation of the protection of monuments, historical settlement protection.
Knowledge
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the monument restoration and renewal, architectonic heritage, development of the preservation of monuments, methods of the preservation of monuments, legislation of the protection of monuments, historical settlement protection.
Syllabus
1. Significance of the architectonic and urban heritages in the historical context
2. Characteristics of the generic structure of the architectonic and urban heritages
3. Transformation of an architectonic work in the particular style periods
4. Transformation of the settlement structures in the historical context
5. Development of the protection and preservation of monuments
6. Methods of the preservation of monuments – purism, scientific restoration, conservation
7. International institutions, documents and forms of the cultural heritage preservation
8. Contemporary preservation of monuments – sources, methods, conception
9. Organization, classification and legislation provision of the preservation of monuments
10. Conception of the monument intervention – construction documents, analysis, investigations
11. Conception of the monument intervention – new functional utilization, choice of the method
12. Forms of the protection of the historical settlements and their parts
13. New creation in the historical environment – genius loci, authenticity of the environment
2. Characteristics of the generic structure of the architectonic and urban heritages
3. Transformation of an architectonic work in the particular style periods
4. Transformation of the settlement structures in the historical context
5. Development of the protection and preservation of monuments
6. Methods of the preservation of monuments – purism, scientific restoration, conservation
7. International institutions, documents and forms of the cultural heritage preservation
8. Contemporary preservation of monuments – sources, methods, conception
9. Organization, classification and legislation provision of the preservation of monuments
10. Conception of the monument intervention – construction documents, analysis, investigations
11. Conception of the monument intervention – new functional utilization, choice of the method
12. Forms of the protection of the historical settlements and their parts
13. New creation in the historical environment – genius loci, authenticity of the environment
Prerequisites
The subject presupposes and develops the knowledge of the history of architecture; it may partly apply the knowledge of the civil engineering subjects. However, it is, for the most part, an independent specific discipline with its own methodological basis and legislation.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Significance of the architectonic and urban heritages in the historical context
2. Characteristics of the generic structure of the architectonic and urban heritages
3. Transformation of an architectonic work in the particular style periods
4. Transformation of the settlement structures in the historical context
5. Development of the protection and preservation of monuments
6. Methods of the preservation of monuments – purism, scientific restoration, conservation
7. International institutions, documents and forms of the cultural heritage preservation
8. Contemporary preservation of monuments – sources, methods, conception
9. Organization, classification and legislation provision of the preservation of monuments
10. Conception of the monument intervention – construction documents, analysis, investigations
11. Conception of the monument intervention – new functional utilization, choice of the method
12. Forms of the protection of the historical settlements and their parts
13. New creation in the historical environment – genius loci, authenticity of the environment
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
In the practice the student has to prepare, present, and submit the seminar work about the restoration of the cultural sight.
Week 1 (2) - getting acquainted with the topic, choosing the seminar work subject
Week 3 (4) - the theory practise, determining of the style periods (using the typical signs, and morphology)
Week 5 (6) - to specify the task, and the ascent of the work, the examples of the elaborated seminar works, arrangement of the sources, to make the work
Week 7 (8) - to make the seminar work
Week 9 (10) - 11 (12) - works presentation, discussion, conclusions
Week 13 - to submit the work; evaluation