Course Details
History of Architecture 5
Academic Year 2024/25
BGA034 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Summer Semester 3rd year
Survey of the history of the 20th-century architecture ranging from the situation before the First World War to the 1960s. Rivalry and blending of the modernism and the traditionalism, the contribution of each of them from the points of view of the period propaganda and the present time. The outstanding personalities in the world and in the Czech lands.
Credits
2 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Entry Knowledge
The subject connects with the knowledge of the preceding periods of the history of architecture – the Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Age, the 19th-century architecture and Early Modernism.
Aims
Knowledge of the history of architecture, the Neoclassicism and the Historism, the interwar Avant-Garde, the Czechoslovak Functionalism, the fifties and sixties, the postmodern architecture, the late 20th century architecture.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the Neoclassicism and the Historism, the interwar Avant-Garde, the Czechoslovak Functionalism, the fifties and sixties, the postmodern architecture, the late 20th century architecture.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the Neoclassicism and the Historism, the interwar Avant-Garde, the Czechoslovak Functionalism, the fifties and sixties, the postmodern architecture, the late 20th century architecture.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Characteristics of the architecture of the 20th century
- 2. Frank Lloyd Wright
- 3. Avant-Garde in the Architecture of Italy
- 4. Avant-Garde in the Architecture of the Netherlands
- 5. Avant-Garde in the Russian Architecture
- 6. Bauhaus
- 7. Bohemian Architecture 1918-1939
- 8. Josef Gočár
- 9. Moravian Architecture 1918-1939
- 10. Traditionalism in the Architecture of Western Europe 1900-1945
- 11. Traditionalism in the Architecture of the USSR
- 12. Socialist Realism in Czechoslovakia
- 13. Louis Kahn