Course detail
Contemporary Architecture
FAST-AG001Acad. year: 2024/2025
Source information about the contemporary architectonic scene, main streams and key figures determining the contemporary architecture. At the very beginning of study it serves as initial knowledge applied in a student’s studio work in the following semester.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
2
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Ústav architektury (ARC)
Entry knowledge
The subject is involved in the first semester of study and thus there is no connection with any previous discipline. The general knowledge of culture and history at the secondary school level is supposed.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
Basic grasp of the contemporary architecture, roots of the contemporary architecture, present streams, rational and creative branches of the world’s and home scenes.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e.basic grasp of the contemporary architecture, roots of the contemporary architecture, present streams, rational and creative branches of the world’s and home scenes.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e.basic grasp of the contemporary architecture, roots of the contemporary architecture, present streams, rational and creative branches of the world’s and home scenes.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
Not applicable.
Recommended reading
Not applicable.
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hod., optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Introduction 1: Architecture and urban planning in Europe from the ancient times to the 18th century
2. Introduction 2: Architecture and urban planning in Europe since the 19th century
3. Roots of modernism (A. Loos, L. Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier)
4. Post-Modernism (R. Venturi, R. Bofill, J. Stirling and others)
5. High-tech (R. Rogers, N. Foster, N. Grimshaw and others)
6. Deconstructivism (P. Eisenman, B. Tschumi, Z. Hadid, R. Koolhaas and others)
7. Organic architecture (F. Gehry, S. Calatrava and others)
8. Minimalism (P. Zumthor, J. Herzog - P. de Meuron and others)
9. Critical regionalism (A. Siza, R. Legoretta and others)
10. Critics of modernism, traditionalism (L. Krier, Q. Terry and others)
11. Traditionalism and reconstructions of protected buildings
12. Czech architecture after 1989
13. Czech architecture after 1989, Brno scene after 1989