Course Details

Architecture of Technical Civilization

Academic Year 2024/25

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