Course Details

Introduction to the Traditional Building Trades

Academic Year 2023/24

AG029 course is part of 1 study plan

B-P-C-APS (N) / APS Winter Semester 3rd year

Implementation of development building trades from oldest time to the present clarifying conventional building processes with accent on the historic skilled handwork into detail.
Knowledge is useful either in area restoration of monuments or for understanding contemporary technologies and possible solutions of design details from point of view both architectural and building constructions.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

Subject extendes knowledges acquire in subject Building construction, where is supplement to understanding of historic context and building trades.

Knowledge

Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. extended knowledge acquired in subject Building construction, where is supplement to understanding of historic context and building trades.

Syllabus

1. Short development of building trades and their position from the very beginning to close 19.century, relation between industrial production and crafts, renewal of building trades in 19. century.
2. Craftsmanship, material, instruments and machinery, technologies. Man and environment.
3. Wood Science, macro and micro structure of wood, wood defects, hygroscopy and drying of wood, conditions of durability, appropriate application of wood, recognition of sorts of wood.
4. Carpentry - material, technology, special branches, construction of structural work of the building.
5. Carpentry and joinery - mutual comparison of manufacturing, building joinery works.
6. Joinery - technology, cabinetmaking, turners, carvers.
7. Bricklaying and stonework - mutual comparison, historical development, material, instruments and tools, bricks and brickmaking.
8. Bricklaying and stonework - building constructions and technologies.
9. Bricklaying and surface of constructions - plasters, stucco, patent stone, painting, tiling, mosaic.
10. Bricklaying and stonework - floor and paving, materials, instruments, technologies.
11. Roofs and tinsmith´s workshop - materials, tools, technologies.
12. Smithery and metalworking - comparison of the work of smith, locksmith, girdler. Materials, tools, technologies.
13. Stove building - fire, oven, fireplace, stove.

Prerequisites

Subject uses knowledge acquisition in subjects Building construction and History of architecture and it is preparation for following subjects Traditional building trades and Detail in architecture.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

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. Short development of building trades and their position from the very beginning to close 19.century, relation between industrial production and crafts, renewal of building trades in 19. century. 2. Craftsmanship, material, instruments and machinery, technologies. Man and environment. 3. Wood Science, macro and micro structure of wood, wood defects, hygroscopy and drying of wood, conditions of durability, appropriate application of wood, recognition of sorts of wood. 4. Carpentry - material, technology, special branches, construction of structural work of the building. 5. Carpentry and joinery - mutual comparison of manufacturing, building joinery works. 6. Joinery - technology, cabinetmaking, turners, carvers. 7. Bricklaying and stonework - mutual comparison, historical development, material, instruments and tools, bricks and brickmaking. 8. Bricklaying and stonework - building constructions and technologies. 9. Bricklaying and surface of constructions - plasters, stucco, patent stone, painting, tiling, mosaic. 10. Bricklaying and stonework - floor and paving, materials, instruments, technologies. 11. Roofs and tinsmith´s workshop - materials, tools, technologies. 12. Smithery and metalworking - comparison of the work of smith, locksmith, girdler. Materials, tools, technologies. 13. Stove building - fire, oven, fireplace, stove.