Course detail

Art and Architecture

FaVU-UA-LAcad. year: 2024/2025

The course focuses primarily on the period between the two world wars up to the present in Czech and international visual art in terms of its connection with the field of architecture. Especially in recent years, many artists have been using architecture as a "material": exploring the history of architecture, rethinking avant-garde utopias, commenting on the social environment, directly substituting the work of architects or working with one of the main constants of architecture - that is, space. 

 

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Jana Kořínková, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Entry knowledge

A moderate knowledge of the history of art and architecture in the 2nd half of the 20th century.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Attendance, presenting the paper and submitting the presentation to MS Teams is a condition for credit. 


Classes are held in the classrooms of the Art History and Theory Department of FFA BUT in the hours determined by the schedule. Attendance is compulsory (2 unexcused absences allowed). The condition for completing the course is the presentation of a paper. 

Aims

The aim of the course is to name the current tendencies in the relationship between art and architecture and to reveal the development that preceded the current state of affairs. Another aim is to create an overview of the current forms of collaboration between artists and architects across artistic disciplines. 

 


By completing the course, students will strengthen their analytical thinking skills, be able to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue and articulate a critical perspective on the changing relationship between art and architecture. 

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Rostislav Švácha – Marie Platovská (eds.), Dějiny českého výtvarného umění VI (1958–2000) I/II, Praha 2007.

Recommended reading

Adolf Loos, Řeči do prázdna. Soubor statí o architektuře, bydlení, ústroji a jiných praktických věcech, které uspořádal Dr. Bohumil Markalous, Praha 1929.
Barbora Klímová, My jsme tím projektem žili, Brno 2011.
Donald Niebyl, Spomenik Monument Database, London 2018.
Frank Whitford, Bauhaus, Praha 2015.
Gabriela Blažková et al., Smuteční síň v Brně-Židenicích / The Mourning Hall in Brno-Židenice, Brno 2013.
Charles Esche, Utopia and reality. El Lissitzky, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov (kat. výst.), Eindhoven 2012.
Ivo Binder et al., Posvátné umění v nesvaté době. České sakrální umění 1948–1989, Olomouc 2023.
Karel Císař (ed.), Stav věcí. Sochy v ulicích III, Brno 2011.
Lada Hubatová-Vacková, Tiché revoluce uvnitř ornamentu: studie z dějin uměleckého průmyslu a dekorativního umění v letech 1880–1930, Praha 2011.
Lucie Chromková, Smuteční síň v architektuře českých zemí v letech 1954–2017 (diplomová práce), FF UP, Olomouc 2018.
Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus: Bauhaus archiv 1919–1933, Köln 1991.
Markéta Svobodová, Bauhaus a Československo 1919–1938: studenti, koncepty, kontakty / The Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919–1938: students, concepts, contacts, Praha 2016.
Markéta Svobodová, Krematorium v procesu sekularizace českých zemí 20. století. Ideové, stavební a typologické proměny, Praha 2014.
Pavel Karous (ed.), Hotel Praha, Praha 2019.
Pavel Karous (ed.), Vetřelci a volavky. Atlas výtvarného umění ve veřejném prostoru v Československu v období normalizace (1968–1989) / Aliens and Herons: A Guide to Fine Art in the Public Space in the Era of Normalisation in Czechoslovakia (1968–1989), Praha 2017.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme DES_M Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme VUM_B Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    4 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Jana Kořínková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Lecture - Art and architecture: defining concepts 2. Lecture - Iconography of public space 3. Lecture - Is ornament a crime? 4. Lecture - Transformation of the relationship between art and architecture before and behind the Iron Curtain 5. Seminar / presentations and discussion – Art, architecture and interwar modernism 6. Seminar / presentations and discussions – Continuity. Art in 20th century church architecture 7. Seminar / presentations and discussions – Continuity. Art in 21st Century Church Architecture 8. Seminar / presentations and discussions – Memorial architecture and architecture of mourning behind the Iron Curtain 9. Seminar / presentations and discussions – Unwanted heritage or (not) demolishing the "Gesamtkunstwerk" 10. Seminar / presentations and discussions – Architecture and Intervention 11. Seminar / presentations and discussions – Art, Architecture and Ideology 12. Seminar / presentations and discussions – Contemporary Art in Public Space 13. Seminar / presentations and discussions – The city as an object of artistic research