Course Details
Elements of Architectural Design
Academic Year 2025/26
BGA007 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Winter Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Nature of architecture, its function and message
- 2. Architectural design as a synthesis of disciplines
- 3. Theory of a natural place – phenomenology, structure, spirit
- 4. Theory of an artificial place - phenomenology, structure, spirit
- 5. Elements of the architectonic typology
- 6. Space, identification with space, topos-typos
- 7. Space composition, raumplan, plan-libre, structuralism
- 8. Architectonic structure
- 9. Elementary structive components
- 10. Spatial load-bearing components
- 11. Elementary composition categories
- 12. Subjects of architectonic and urbanistic design, a client, an architect, an executor
- 13. Methodology of designing
Exercise
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to the seminar, task 1
- 2.-3. Layout of the space - "raumplan", consultations
- 4. Survey of task 1, set up of task 2 - layout of the space - "plan libre"
- 5.-6. Consultations of the task 2
- 7. Survey of task 2, task 3 - "building and site", layout
- 8.-11.Consultations of the task 3.
- 12. Survey of the task 3
- 13. Submission of all parts of work including models