Course Details

Contemporary Architecture

Academic Year 2025/26

BGA006 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Mgr. Markéta Žáčková, Ph.D.

Institute

Link

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289646

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction 1: Architecture and urban planning in Europe from the ancient times to the 18th century
  • 2. Introduction 2: Architecture and urban planning in Europe since the 19th century
  • 3. Roots of modernism (A. Loos, L. Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier)
  • 4. Post-Modernism (R. Venturi, R. Bofill, J. Stirling and others)
  • 5. High-tech (R. Rogers, N. Foster, N. Grimshaw and others)
  • 6. Deconstructivism (P. Eisenman, B. Tschumi, Z. Hadid, R. Koolhaas and others)
  • 7. Organic architecture (F. Gehry, S. Calatrava and others)
  • 8. Minimalism (P. Zumthor, J. Herzog - P. de Meuron and others)
  • 9. Critical regionalism (A. Siza, R. Legoretta and others)
  • 10. Critics of modernism, traditionalism (L. Krier, Q. Terry and others)
  • 11. Traditionalism and reconstructions of protected buildings
  • 12. Czech architecture after 1989
  • 13. Czech architecture after 1989, Brno scene after 1989