Course detail
History of Architecture 5
FAST-BGA034Acad. year: 2024/2025
Survey of the history of the 20th-century architecture ranging from the situation before the First World War to the 1960s. Rivalry and blending of the modernism and the traditionalism, the contribution of each of them from the points of view of the period propaganda and the present time. The outstanding personalities in the world and in the Czech lands.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
2
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Ústav architektury (ARC)
Entry knowledge
The subject connects with the knowledge of the preceding periods of the history of architecture – the Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Age, the 19th-century architecture and Early Modernism.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
Knowledge of the history of architecture, the Neoclassicism and the Historism, the interwar Avant-Garde, the Czechoslovak Functionalism, the fifties and sixties, the postmodern architecture, the late 20th century architecture.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the Neoclassicism and the Historism, the interwar Avant-Garde, the Czechoslovak Functionalism, the fifties and sixties, the postmodern architecture, the late 20th century architecture.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the Neoclassicism and the Historism, the interwar Avant-Garde, the Czechoslovak Functionalism, the fifties and sixties, the postmodern architecture, the late 20th century architecture.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
Not applicable.
Recommended reading
Not applicable.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPC-APS Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hod., optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Characteristics of the architecture of the 20th century
2. Frank Lloyd Wright
3. Avant-Garde in the Architecture of Italy
4. Avant-Garde in the Architecture of the Netherlands
5. Avant-Garde in the Russian Architecture
6. Bauhaus
7. Bohemian Architecture 1918-1939
8. Josef Gočár
9. Moravian Architecture 1918-1939
10. Traditionalism in the Architecture of Western Europe 1900-1945
11. Traditionalism in the Architecture of the USSR
12. Socialist Realism in Czechoslovakia
13. Louis Kahn