Course detail

Art and the City - summer

FaVU-3VUM-LAcad. year: 2011/2012

Historical developments of urban developments of cities and their base plan relating to the specifics of the environment of the one hand (cities in the mountains, lowland cities, cities in a valley, cties with a river, etc), and to the specifics of the function of the city (fortress, market centre, industrial city, city as the administration centre, satellite city, university/institutions city). The function, situation, and appearance of the city's representative buildings (churches, townhalls, theatres, schools, museums, cemeteries). The statue and the city: memorials, plague columns, devotional pillars, wayside crosses, wells, scupltures in public space - symposiums (Liberec, Bochum). Contemporary trends, the involvement of new media.

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Knowledge of artistic issues in urban contexts.

Prerequisites

The student has to have general knowledge of architecture.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam.

Course curriculum

Example: Hradec Králové: from medieval to modernist city.
Example: Zlín: modern industrial city and its social aspects
The catedral and the foundry
Le Corbusier and his chapel in Ronchamps
A memorial in a city
Funeral sculpture in churches and cemeteries
Example: the wells in Olomouc
Art and advertising: example: Pešánek

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Artistic principles are manifested in urban structures on several levels:
public buildings - churches, townhalls, schools, theatres, parks, gardens, cemeteries and their architecture, funeral scuplture; scuplptures in public space als have to be considered. We will also look at the question of the usage of colours and other new visual means.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Tutorials.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Almanach Výstavy soudobé kultury ČSR - Brno 1928,
Benešová M.- Toman, F. - Jakl, J., Salón republiky, Hradec Králové, 2000
Ejhle světlo : [Look light] : Moravská galerie v Brně, 16.10.2003-29.2.2004, Jízdárna Pražského hradu, 26.3-6.6.2004 / koncepce výstavy a katalogu Jiří Zemánek ; autoři textů Marco Bischof ... [et al.]
Frampton, Keneth, Moderní architektura, Kritické dějiny, Academia, Praha, 2004
Šlapeta, Vladimír, Die Brünner Funktionalisten, Innsbruck-Wien, 1985
Zdeněk Pešánek 1896-1965 / [text Jiří Zemánek] ; kat. výst. : Praha, Národní galerie, Veletržní palác, 21.11.1996-16.2.1997

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUD Doctoral

    branch UMVP_DP , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch UMVP_DP , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme VUD Doctoral

    branch , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer