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.

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