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