Course Details
History of Architecture 4
Academic Year 2022/23
AG024 course is part of 1 study plan
B-P-C-APS (N) Winter Semester 1st year
A survey of the history of Western architecture from the 1750s to the turn of the 20th century. Characteristics of the style movements from the Rococo to the Early Modernism. Buildings and theory of the key figures with the emphasis on the Middle-European milieu (L. Klenze, K. F. Schinkel, G. Semper, Viollet-le-Duc, O. Wagner), the beginnings of the industrial architecture, and the reform movements (Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau).
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
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.
Knowledge
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. 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.
Syllabus
1. Stylistic Pluralism in the Architecture of the 18th Century, the Picturesque Garden
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 (L. Klenze, K. F. 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 Nouveau, Arts and Crafts
9. European Art Nouveau (V. Horta, A. Gaudí, O. Wagner and others)
10. Art Nouveau in Bohemia and Moravia (J. Fanta, D. Jurkovič, J. Kotěra and others)
11. Forerunners of the Modernism in the USA, the Chicago School
12. Architecture of the Early Modernism
13. Early Modernism in Bohemia and Moravia
Prerequisites
The subject connects with the history of the ancient architecture, architecture of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
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. Stylistic Pluralism in the Architecture of the 18th Century, the Picturesque Garden
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 (L. Klenze, K. F. 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 Nouveau, Arts and Crafts
9. European Art Nouveau (V. Horta, A. Gaudí, O. Wagner and others)
10. Art Nouveau in Bohemia and Moravia (J. Fanta, D. Jurkovič, J. Kotěra and others)
11. Forerunners of the Modernism in the USA, the Chicago School
12. Architecture of the Early Modernism
13. Early Modernism in Bohemia and Moravia