Course Details
Introduction to the Traditional Building Handicraft
Academic Year 2025/26
BGA031 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Winter Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Short development of building trades and their position from the very beginning to close 19th century, relation between industrial production and crafts, renewal of building trades in 19th century.
- 2. Craftsmanship, material, instruments and machinery, technologies. Man and environment.
- 3. Wood Science, macro and micro structure of wood, wood defects, hygroscopy and drying of wood, conditions of durability, appropriate application of wood, recognition of sorts of wood.
- 4. Carpentry – material, technology, special branches, construction of structural work of the building.
- 5. Carpentry and joinery – mutual comparison of manufacturing, building joinery works.
- 6. Joinery – technology, cabinetmaking, turners, carvers.
- 7. Bricklaying and stonework – mutual comparison, historical development, material, instruments and tools, bricks and brickmaking.
- 8. Bricklaying and stonework – building constructions and technologies.
- 9. Bricklaying and surface of constructions – plasters, stucco, patent stone, painting, tiling, mosaic.
- 10. Bricklaying and stonework – floor and paving, materials, instruments, technologies.
- 11. Roofs and tinsmith´s workshop – materials, tools, technologies.
- 12. Smithery and metalworking – comparison of the work of smith, locksmith, girdler. Materials, tools, technologies.
- 13. Stove building – fire, oven, fireplace, stove.