Course Details

Theory and Aesthetics

Academic Year 2025/26

BGA033 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-APS Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Theory, aesthetics and critics of architecture – definition of disciplines, their subjects and importance
  • 2. Vitruvius
  • 3. L. B. Alberti
  • 4. A. Palladio
  • 5. J. B. Fischer von Erlach
  • 7. C. Alexander
  • 8. N. Salingaros
  • 8.-13. Analysis and debate on the selected contemporary theoretical essays

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

Debate on the architecture, urban planning, and the heritage protection in situ.