Course Details
Architectonic Composition
Academic Year 2025/26
BGA029 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Winter Semester 3rd year
Survey and analysis of the architectural vocabulary and grammar, emphasizing psychological and aesthetical aspects. Comparison and assessment of examples from the Antiquity to the present.
Credits
2 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
winter
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Entry Knowledge
The subject is based on some partial knowledge of the introductory architectonic subjects and it applies the knowledge of the historiography of architecture.
Aims
Grasp of the architectonic composition, basic composition categories, structure, tectonics and stereotomy, colour and materials, interior and exterior.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. grasp of the architectonic composition, basic composition categories, structure, tectonics and stereotomy, colour and materials, interior and exterior.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. grasp of the architectonic composition, basic composition categories, structure, tectonics and stereotomy, colour and materials, interior and exterior.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Architectonic composition, basic categories
- 2. Perception of shapes, optical illusions
- 3. Focus, point, line, geometrical forms
- 4. Tectonics and stereotomy
- 5. Space
- 6. Symmetry and asymmetry
- 7. Contrast and nuance
- 8. Metrum and rhythm
- 9. Modul
- 10. Proportion
- 11. Scale
- 12. Discussion about selected examples 1
- 13. Discussion about selected examples 2