Course Details
Traditional Building Trades
Academic Year 2025/26
BGB039 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
graded course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Relation and cooperation between architect and craftsman in the history and present. Elements of creativity. Optimal use of resources. From an idea to the reality. Method of creative work.
- 2. Guidance by the historical work of our predecessors - method of documentation of realized work, analysis of used materials and technologies, value of work in terms of craftsmanship and social impact.
- 3. Documentation of building trades according to the individual fields. Common theme as a model example and subsequent analysis (material, construction, technology).
- 4. Interpretation of the essence of semestral work and methodology of individual analysis. Clarification of the study intention.
- 5. Analysis of realized examples, documents and data.
- 6. Analysis of realized examples, documents and data.
- 7. Relationship between crafts and environment - influence of the state of society, supply and demand.
- 8. The origin, development, prosperity, decline and extinction of crafts, guarantees of craftsmanship.
- 9. Methods of documentation of construction work and detail in history and today.
- 10. Creative intelligence. Creative hand. The ability to perceive the links - understand and evaluate. Personal values.
- 11. Excursion to selected crafts workplace.
- 12. Excursion to selected crafts workplace.
- 13. Joint discussion and evaluation of acquired knowledge and results of the individual work.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Determination of the theme of the seminar work
- 2.-11. Consultations and continuous assessment
- 12. Presentation of the work in the seminar group
- 13. Final evaluation