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