Course Details
Traditional Building Trades
Academic Year 2024/25
AG055 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Relation and cooperation between architect and craftsman in the history and present. Elements of creativity. Optimal use of resources. From an idea to the reality. Method of creative work.
2. Guidance by the historical work of our predecessors - method of documentation of realized work, analysis of used materials and technologies, value of work in terms of craftsmanship and social impact.
3. Documentation of building trades according to the individual fields. Common theme as a model example and subsequent analysis (material, construction, technology).
4. Interpretation of the essence of semestral work and methodology of individual analysis. Clarification of the study intention.
5. Analysis of realized examples, documents and data.
6. Analysis of realized examples, documents and data.
7. Relationship between crafts and environment - influence of the state of society, supply and demand.
8. The origin, development, prosperity, decline and extinction of crafts, guarantees of craftsmanship.
9. Methods of documentation of construction work and detail in history and today.
10. Creative intelligence. Creative hand. The ability to perceive the links - understand and evaluate. Personal values.
11. Excursion to selected crafts workplace.
12. Excursion to selected crafts workplace.
13. Joint discussion and evaluation of acquired knowledge and results of the individual work.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Determination of the theme of the seminar work
2.-11. Consultations and continuous assessment
12. Presentation of the work in the seminar group
13. Final evaluation