Course Details

History of Architecture 3

Academic Year 2025/26

BGA025 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Summer Semester 2nd 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/289665

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Renaissance – cultural and social background, technology, space, set of architectonic elements.
  • 2. Early Renaissance in Italy (Bruneleschi, Alberti, Sangallo sr., etc.).
  • 3. High Renaissance in Italy (Bramante, Rafael, Sangallo jr., Peruzzi, etc.), the Late Renaissance, the Mannerism (Michelangelo, Vignola, Paladio, etc.).
  • 4. Renaissance ouside Italy – France, Spain and Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany.
  • 5. Renaissance in Bohemia and Moravia I.
  • 6. Renaissance in Bohemia and Moravia II.
  • 7. Baroque – cultural and social background, technology, space, set of architectonic elements, evolution.
  • 8. Baroque in Italy I. (Maderna, Bernini).
  • 9. Baroque in Italy II. (Borromini, Guarini).
  • 10. Baroque of French classicism.
  • 11. Baroque in Germany and Austria.
  • 12. Baroque in Bohemia and Moravia.
  • 13. The most outstanding representatives of the Bohemian Baroque (the Dientzenhofers, Kaňka, Santini, etc.).