Course Details
History of Architecture 2
Academic Year 2024/25
BGA020 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Winter Semester 2nd year
Knowledge of the Middle Ages architecture, from the ancient Christians, over the Byzantine and Islamic architecture, the Pre-Romanesque architecture, the Old Slavonic architecture, the European and the Czech Romanesque and Gothic architecture to the most outstanding Middle Ages building complexes; development of the art of construction in relation to the social and economic background and the stage of technological development.
Credits
2 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
winter
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
Entry Knowledge
The course connects with the history of the Antiquity, partially applying the knowledge of the building construction courses.
Aims
Knowledge of the history of architecture, the ancient Christians, the Byzantine and Islamic architecture, the Pre-Romanesque architecture, the Romanesque architecture, the Gothic in foreign countries, the Gothic in the Czech lands.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the ancient Christians, the Byzantine and Islamic architecture, the Pre-Romanesque architecture, the Romanesque architecture, the Gothic in foreign countries, the Gothic in the Czech lands.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the ancient Christians, the Byzantine and Islamic architecture, the Pre-Romanesque architecture, the Romanesque architecture, the Gothic in foreign countries, the Gothic in the Czech lands.
Basic Literature
BARTLOVÁ, Milena. Průvodce studiem dějin středověkého výtvarného umění. 3. vyd. Praha: UMPRUM, 2018. E-kniha, 347 s.
KOCH, Wilfried. Evropská architektura. Encyklopedie evropské architektury od antiky po současnost. 3. vyd. Praha: Euromedia Group – Knižní klub, 2012. 552 s. ISBN: 978-80-242-3657-5.
SYROVÝ, Bohuslav. Architektura – svědectví dob: přehled vývoje stavitelství a architektury. 3., dopl. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1987.
KOCH, Wilfried. Evropská architektura. Encyklopedie evropské architektury od antiky po současnost. 3. vyd. Praha: Euromedia Group – Knižní klub, 2012. 552 s. ISBN: 978-80-242-3657-5.
SYROVÝ, Bohuslav. Architektura – svědectví dob: přehled vývoje stavitelství a architektury. 3., dopl. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1987.
Recommended Reading
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BARTLOVÁ, Milena. Skutečná přítomnost. Středověký obraz mezi ikonou a virtuální realitou. 1. vyd. Praha: Argo, 2012. 407 s. ISBN: 978-80-257-0542-1.
CASSON, Hugh. Dějiny architektury. Praha: Odeon, 1993. ISBN 80-207-0185-0.
RALLS, Karen. Gothic Cathedrals: A Guide to the History, Places, Art, and Symbolism. Lake Worth, Florida: Ibis Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0892541737.
BARTLOVÁ, Milena. Skutečná přítomnost. Středověký obraz mezi ikonou a virtuální realitou. 1. vyd. Praha: Argo, 2012. 407 s. ISBN: 978-80-257-0542-1.
CASSON, Hugh. Dějiny architektury. Praha: Odeon, 1993. ISBN 80-207-0185-0.
RALLS, Karen. Gothic Cathedrals: A Guide to the History, Places, Art, and Symbolism. Lake Worth, Florida: Ibis Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0892541737.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Architecture of the ancient Christians of the Eastern and Western Empires
- 2. Byzantine architecture, the Islamic architecture
- 3. Pre-Romanesque architecture from 6th to 10th century in the territory of France and Germany
- 4. Art of construction of the Great Moravian Slavs
- 5. Romanesque architecture – cultural and social background, technology, space, set of architectonic elements
- 6. Romanesque architecture – Italy, France, Germany
- 7. Romanesque architecture – Bohemia and Moravia
- 8. Gothic architecture – cultural and social background, technology, space, set of architectonic elements
- 9. Gothic architecture – France, England
- 10. Gothic architecture – Germany, Italy
- 11. Gothic architecture – Bohemia and Moravia I.
- 12. Gothic architecture - Bohemia and Moravia II.
- 13. The most outstanding Middle Ages building complexes in Bohemia and foreign countries.