Course Details

Contemporary Architecture

Academic Year 2024/25

BGA006 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Winter Semester 1st year

Source information about the contemporary architectonic scene, main streams and key figures determining the contemporary architecture. At the very beginning of study it serves as initial knowledge applied in a student’s studio work in the following semester.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Mgr. Markéta Žáčková, Ph.D.

Institute

Link

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

The subject is involved in the first semester of study and thus there is no connection with any previous discipline. The general knowledge of culture and history at the secondary school level is supposed.

Aims

Basic grasp of the contemporary architecture, roots of the contemporary architecture, present streams, rational and creative branches of the world’s and home scenes.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e.basic grasp of the contemporary architecture, roots of the contemporary architecture, present streams, rational and creative branches of the world’s and home scenes.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281478

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction 1: Architecture and urban planning in Europe from the ancient times to the 18th century
  • 2. Introduction 2: Architecture and urban planning in Europe since the 19th century
  • 3. Roots of modernism (A. Loos, L. Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier)
  • 4. Post-Modernism (R. Venturi, R. Bofill, J. Stirling and others)
  • 5. High-tech (R. Rogers, N. Foster, N. Grimshaw and others)
  • 6. Deconstructivism (P. Eisenman, B. Tschumi, Z. Hadid, R. Koolhaas and others)
  • 7. Organic architecture (F. Gehry, S. Calatrava and others)
  • 8. Minimalism (P. Zumthor, J. Herzog - P. de Meuron and others)
  • 9. Critical regionalism (A. Siza, R. Legoretta and others)
  • 10. Critics of modernism, traditionalism (L. Krier, Q. Terry and others)
  • 11. Traditionalism and reconstructions of protected buildings
  • 12. Czech architecture after 1989
  • 13. Czech architecture after 1989, Brno scene after 1989