Course Details
Reconstruction and Renovation of Historical Buildings
Academic Year 2025/26
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to the subject; monument care: development and contemporary legal requirements on the protection of cultural heritage in the Czech Republic; methods of protection and presentation of building monuments; surveys and diagnostics of historical buildings.
- 2. Architectural styles in the territory of the Czech Republic.
- 3. Historical development of building structures in the territory of the Czech Republic.
- 4. Approaches to the conservation and interventions in individual building elements and structures of historic buildings and building monuments.
- 5. Historical building technologies: stonemasonry; plastering of historic buildings; gypsum plasters and false vaults; stucco work.
- 6. Historical building technologies: painting techniques in historical eras; fresco paintings; sgraffito decoration; stuccolustro.
- 7. Historical building technologies: mosaic; wallpapers; gilding, patination, polychrome.
- 8. Vaults: fundamental overview, building technologies, faults and repairs of vaults; exam instructions.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to practice classes; credit granting conditions; assignment of input documents for semestral work.
- 2. Individual consultation of the assignment and field work: preliminary survey, measurement of current state, photodocumentation, collection of the necessary information.
- 3. Historical survey of the given building: work with archive and literary sources.
- 4. Architectural analysis of the building and art history review: architectural style and detail; monument evaluation of the building.
- 5. Building survey: basic structural and static survey, moisture survey and bio-corrosion evaluation, including a preliminary assessment of the current state.
- 6. Design of the refurbishment of particular structures: processing the problems of reconstruction, rehabilitation or renovation procedures of selected building defects and failures (special technological procedures for the restoration of monuments are preferred).
- 7. Individual consultation; presentation of work results.
- 8. Submission of semestral work; credits.