Course Details
History of Architecture 1
Academic Year 2024/25
BGA014 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Summer Semester 1st year
Introduction to the history of architecture, significant for the further development of European art of construction, the Pre-historic Age, the ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Egea and Etruria, the ancient Greece and Rome, construction techniques, styles, construction types.
Credits
2 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Entry Knowledge
The course does not connect with any preceding discipline. The information acquired in the typological courses may be made use of partially. The prerequisite to mastering this course is the general knowledge of culture and history at the secondary school level.
Aims
Knowledge of the history of architecture, the Pre-historic Age, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Near East, the ancient Greece, the ancient Rome.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the Pre-historic Age, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Near East, the ancient Greece, the ancient Rome.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the Pre-historic Age, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Near East, the ancient Greece, the ancient Rome.
Basic Literature
HARARI, Yuval Noah. Sapiens. Stručné dějiny lidstva. 3. vyd. Voznice: Leda, 2018. 518 s. ISBN: 978-80-7335-569-2.
KOCH, Wilfried. Evropská architektura: encyklopedie evropské architektury od antiky po současnost. Praha: Euromedia Group - Knižní klub, 2012. ISBN 978-80-242-3657-5.
KOCH, Wilfried. Evropská architektura: encyklopedie evropské architektury od antiky po současnost. Praha: Euromedia Group - Knižní klub, 2012. ISBN 978-80-242-3657-5.
Recommended Reading
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BOUZEK, Jan. Vznik Evropy. 1. vyd. Praha: Triton, 2013. 359 s. ISBN: 978-80-7387-670-8.
CASSON, Hugh. Dějiny architektury. Praha: Odeon, 1993. ISBN 80-207-0185-0.
FRANKFORT, Henri – MATTHEWS, Donald, ed. and Michael ROAF ed. The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (TheYale University PressPelicanHistoryof Art) 5th Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-300-06470-5.
SYROVÝ, Bohuslav. Architektura – svědectví dob: přehled vývoje stavitelství a architektury. 3., dopl. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1987.
VLČEK, Pavel. Dějiny architektury pravěku a starověku. 1. vyd. Praha: Vydavatelství ČVUT, 2005. 208 s. ISBN: 80-01-03187-X.
BOUZEK, Jan. Vznik Evropy. 1. vyd. Praha: Triton, 2013. 359 s. ISBN: 978-80-7387-670-8.
CASSON, Hugh. Dějiny architektury. Praha: Odeon, 1993. ISBN 80-207-0185-0.
FRANKFORT, Henri – MATTHEWS, Donald, ed. and Michael ROAF ed. The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (TheYale University PressPelicanHistoryof Art) 5th Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-300-06470-5.
SYROVÝ, Bohuslav. Architektura – svědectví dob: přehled vývoje stavitelství a architektury. 3., dopl. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1987.
VLČEK, Pavel. Dějiny architektury pravěku a starověku. 1. vyd. Praha: Vydavatelství ČVUT, 2005. 208 s. ISBN: 80-01-03187-X.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to the history of architecture, the Pre-historic Age, megaliths
- 2. The ancient Egypt – cultural and social background, construction technique, set of architectural elements
- 3. The ancient Egypt – temple architecture, the cult of the deceased
- 4. The ancient Egypt – residences of sovereigns and serfs
- 5. The ancient Mesopotamia – Sumer, Akkad, Babylon
- 6. The ancient architecture of Palestine, Phoenicia, Asia Minor and Persia
- 7. Egea region and Etruria – starting point of the ancient architecture
- 8. The ancient Greece – cultural and social background, construction technique, set of architectural elements
- 9. The ancient Greece – temple, agora, propylaca, residential house
- 10. The ancient Greece – theatre, gymnasion, stadium, hipodrome
- 11. The ancient Rome – cultural and social background, construction technique, set of architectural elements
- 12. The ancient Rome – temple, basilica, forum, triumphal arch, palace, villa, residential House
- 13. The ancient Rome – theatre, amphitheatre, thermae, market halls, technical structures