Course Details
Architecture of Technical Civilization
Academic Year 2025/26
BGB044 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Winter Semester 4th year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
winter
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. Introduction and recommended sources of study
- 2. The Industrial Revolution and architecture
- 3. Origins of the Modernism in engineering and industry
- 4. Theoretical fountain-heads of the new aesthetics
- 5. Industrial inspiration of the interwar Avant-Garde – Germany, Soviet Russia
- 6. Industrial inspiration of the interwar Avant-Garde – France, Czechoslovakia
- 7. Postwar architecture of the splitted-up world
- 8. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – Archigram, J.Stirling
- 9. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – R.Rogers, N.Foster
- 10. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – M.Hopkins, N.Grimshaw
- 11. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – E.Jiřičná, J.Kaplický
- 12. Technicism in architecture in the Czech lands
- 13. Future of the technicism in architecture
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Determination of the theme of the seminar essay
- 2.-10. Consultations
- 11.-12. Presentation of the essay in the seminar group
- 13. Final evaluation