Course Details

Architecture of Technical Civilization

Academic Year 2024/25

BGB044 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Winter Semester 4th year

The optional subject is aimed at the past and the present of architecture inspired by technology and industry; it reflects the rational and romantic fountain-heads of the technicism in architecture, its decisive influence on the birth of the Modern Movement and the late manifestations of its most outstanding protagonists. It sets about anticipating the technology impact on the future of the 21st century architecture.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. arch. Alois Nový, CSc.

Institute

Link

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

The subject connects with the preceding lectures on contemporary architecture and history of architecture, particularly history of the 20th-century architecture.

Aims

Grasp of the interaction of the technology and architecture, the Industrial Revolution, the beginnings of the Modern Movement, the interwar Avant-Garde, the present and the future of the technicism in architecture.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. grasp of the interaction of the technology and architecture, the Industrial Revolution, the beginnings of the Modern Movement, the interwar Avant-Garde, the present and the future of the technicism in architecture.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281929

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction and recommended sources of study
  • 2. The Industrial Revolution and architecture
  • 3. Origins of the Modernism in engineering and industry
  • 4. Theoretical fountain-heads of the new aesthetics
  • 5. Industrial inspiration of the interwar Avant-Garde – Germany, Soviet Russia
  • 6. Industrial inspiration of the interwar Avant-Garde – France, Czechoslovakia
  • 7. Postwar architecture of the splitted-up world
  • 8. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – Archigram, J.Stirling
  • 9. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – R.Rogers, N.Foster
  • 10. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – M.Hopkins, N.Grimshaw
  • 11. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – E.Jiřičná, J.Kaplický
  • 12. Technicism in architecture in the Czech lands
  • 13. Future of the technicism in architecture

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Determination of the theme of the seminar essay
  • 2.-10. Consultations
  • 11.-12. Presentation of the essay in the seminar group
  • 13. Final evaluation