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