Course Details
Theory and Practice of Architectural Design
Academic Year 2025/26
NGB058 course is part of 2 study plans
NPC-ARS / ARA Winter Semester 2nd year
NPC-ARS / ARP Winter Semester 2nd year
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, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Perception of architecture
- 2. Order and chaos in architecture: geometry and geometrical psychology
- 3. Measure and balance: dimensions and proportions
- 4. Town layout and the structure
- 5. Space: elements defining space
- 6. Light and shadow: quantity and quality of light
- 7. Place: from space to place, limits between an interior and an exterior
- 8. Form and matter: truth and deception
- 9. Project: historical development; attributes of a well-managed project
- 10. Kenneth Frampton – Critical regionalism: architecture of Ticino: Botta; Snozzi; Galfetti; Vacchini; Carloni.
- 11. Architecture and art: architecture and creative art; architecture and music; architecture and expert critique.
- 12. Architectural practices. Theoretical texts and essays on a given subject (authors: H. Banks; D. Steiner; S. Holl).
- 13. Conclusion: discussion on the possibilities for application of the gained knowledge in real life situation
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1.-12. Analysis for own individual texts and essays on a given subject.
- 13. Final evaluation of the results of the work.