Course Details

History of Architecture 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BGA014 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. arch. Adam Guzdek, Ph.D.

Institute

Link

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

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/289654

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the history of architecture, the Pre-historic Age, megaliths
  • 2. The ancient Egypt – cultural and social background, construction technique, set of architectural elements
  • 3. The ancient Egypt – temple architecture, the cult of the deceased
  • 4. The ancient Egypt – residences of sovereigns and serfs
  • 5. The ancient Mesopotamia – Sumer, Akkad, Babylon
  • 6. The ancient architecture of Palestine, Phoenicia, Asia Minor and Persia
  • 7. Egea region and Etruria – starting point of the ancient architecture
  • 8. The ancient Greece – cultural and social background, construction technique, set of architectural elements
  • 9. The ancient Greece – temple, agora, propylaca, residential house
  • 10. The ancient Greece – theatre, gymnasion, stadium, hipodrome
  • 11. The ancient Rome – cultural and social background, construction technique, set of architectural elements
  • 12. The ancient Rome – temple, basilica, forum, triumphal arch, palace, villa, residential House
  • 13. The ancient Rome – theatre, amphitheatre, thermae, market halls, technical structures