Course Details

Monument Restoration

Academic Year 2024/25

AG008 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

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. Significance of the architectonic and urban heritages in the historical context 2. Characteristics of the generic structure of the architectonic and urban heritages 3. Transformation of an architectonic work in the particular style periods 4. Transformation of the settlement structures in the historical context 5. Development of the protection and preservation of monuments 6. Methods of the preservation of monuments – purism, scientific restoration, conservation 7. International institutions, documents and forms of the cultural heritage preservation 8. Contemporary preservation of monuments – sources, methods, conception 9. Organization, classification and legislation provision of the preservation of monuments 10. Conception of the monument intervention – construction documents, analysis, investigations 11. Conception of the monument intervention – new functional utilization, choice of the method 12. Forms of the protection of the historical settlements and their parts 13. New creation in the historical environment – genius loci, authenticity of the environment

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

In the practice the student has to prepare, present, and submit the seminar work about the restoration of the cultural sight. Week 1 (2) - getting acquainted with the topic, choosing the seminar work subject Week 3 (4) - the theory practise, determining of the style periods (using the typical signs, and morphology) Week 5 (6) - to specify the task, and the ascent of the work, the examples of the elaborated seminar works, arrangement of the sources, to make the work Week 7 (8) - to make the seminar work Week 9 (10) - 11 (12) - works presentation, discussion, conclusions Week 13 - to submit the work; evaluation