Course Details
Theory and Aesthetics
Academic Year 2023/24
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.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Knowledge of the ideological background of architectural design, architecture and philosophy, criticism in architecture, development of concepts, style, taste, fashion.
Knowledge
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.
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
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
Prerequisites
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.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
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.