Course Details

Theory and Aesthetics

Academic Year 2024/25

BGA033 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Summer Semester 3rd year

Survey of the genres and methods of theoretical debate on architecture. Differentiation of the historically conditioned and the permanent in this debate on the example of the significant Western conceptions from the Antiquity to the 21th century. Selected topics important at the present time.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Mgr. Markéta Žáčková, Ph.D.

Institute

Link

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

The subject applies the knowledge of the history of architecture including the contemporary architecture and, in the selected connections, it refers to the architectonic composition principles.

Aims

Knowledge of the ideological background of architectural design, architecture and philosophy, criticism in architecture, development of concepts, style, taste, fashion.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the ideological background of architectural design, architecture and philosophy, criticism in architecture, development of concepts, style, taste, fashion.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281684

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Theory, aesthetics and critics of architecture – definition of disciplines, their subjects and importance
  • 2. Vitruvius
  • 3. L. B. Alberti
  • 4. A. Palladio
  • 5. J. B. Fischer von Erlach
  • 7. C. Alexander
  • 8. N. Salingaros
  • 8.-13. Analysis and debate on the selected contemporary theoretical essays

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

Debate on the architecture, urban planning, and the heritage protection in situ.