Course Details

Cultural values of landscape and settlements

Academic Year 2023/24

NGB054 course is part of 2 study plans

​ NPC-ARS / ARA Summer Semester 1st year

​ NPC-ARS / ARP Summer Semester 1st year

The course complements and expands knowledge in the field of cultural and natural heritage and aims to arouse in students interest in the history of building development in the Czech landscape. It describes the development of Czech towns, changes of landscape and landmarks in historical periods from the Middle Ages to the present transformations of today.

Course Guarantor

Ing. arch. Adam Guzdek, Ph.D.

Institute

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Objective

The aim of the course is to gain a broader understanding of the history of building development in the Czech landscape in all its contexts throughout history up to the present day and to understand the reason for the creation of conservation. 

Knowledge

Spatial orientation among current historical as well as contemporary structures, the knowledge needed for an architect to create within a historically determined environment.

Syllabus

1. Systems of values in monument care.
2. Specifics of the Czech landscape.
3. Development of settlement in our territory and medieval town.
4. Urban and architectural heritage of medieval town.
5. Feudal castles and fortresses.
6. Renaissance and Baroque landscape transformation.
7. Aristocratic castles and palaces.
8. Traces of industrial revolution.
9. Transformation of cities in the 19th and 20th centuries.
10. Architecture of industrial construction.
11. Landscape of common economy.
12. Suburbanization of landscape.
13. Excursion.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of monument care, history of architecture and urbanism.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/271316

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Systems of values in monument care.
2. Specifics of the Czech landscape.
3. Development of settlement in our territory and medieval town.
4. Urban and architectural heritage of medieval town.
5. Feudal castles and fortresses.
6. Renaissance and Baroque landscape transformation.
7. Aristocratic castles and palaces.
8. Traces of industrial revolution.
9. Transformation of cities in the 19th and 20th centuries.
10. Architecture of industrial construction.
11. Landscape of common economy.
12. Suburbanization of landscape.
13. Excursion.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Assignment of seminar work.
2.-11. Consultation of seminar work.
12. Submission of seminar work.
13. Excursion.