Course detail

History of Architecture 4

FAST-BGA030Acad. year: 2024/2025

A survey of the history of Western architecture from the 1750s to the turn of the 20th century. Characteristics of the style movements from the Rococo to the Early Modernism. Buildings and theory of the key figures with the emphasis on the Middle-European milieu (L. Klenze, K. F. Schinkel, G. Semper, Viollet-le-Duc, O. Wagner), the beginnings of the industrial architecture, and the reform movements (Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau).

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Markéta Žáčková, Ph.D.

Department

Ústav architektury (ARC)

Entry knowledge

The subject connects with the history of the ancient architecture, architecture of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age.

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 Industrial Revolution and architecture, the Classicism and the Empire style in the foreign countries, the Classicism and the Empire Style in the Bohemian lands, the beginning of the Modern Movement, Art Nouveau, the architecture of the individualistic Modernism.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the Industrial Revolution and architecture, the Classicism and the Empire style in the foreign countries, the Classicism and the Empire Style in the Bohemian lands, the beginning of the Modern Movement, Art Nouveau, the architecture of the individualistic Modernism.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Michal Konečný, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Stylistic Pluralism in the Architecture of the 18th Century, the Picturesque Garden 2. Architecture of the First Half of the 19th Century in England and France 3. Architecture of the First Half of the 19th Century in Germany (L. Klenze, K. F. Schinkel) 4. Architecture of the First Half of the 19th Century in Austria, Bohemia and Moravia 5. Architecture of the Second Half of the 19th Century in England and France 6. Architecture of the Second Half of the 19th Century in Germany 7. Architecture of the Second Half of the 19th Century in Austria, Bohemia and Moravia 8. Roots of the Modernism: Victorian Engineering, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts 9. European Art Nouveau (V. Horta, A. Gaudí, O. Wagner and others) 10. Art Nouveau in Bohemia and Moravia (J. Fanta, D. Jurkovič, J. Kotěra and others) 11. Forerunners of the Modernism in the USA, the Chicago School 12. Architecture of the Early Modernism 13. Early Modernism in Bohemia and Moravia