Course detail

Monument Restoration

FAST-AG08Acad. year: 2011/2012

Set of basic information on the process of the preservation of the architectonic heritage and its cultural values, aiming at comprehension of the importance of the monument preservation. The principles of determining the conception of monument interventions as a procedure issuing from the construction documents and familiarization with a building and leading to a new functional utilization and rehabilitation of a monument.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the monument restoration and renewal, architectonic heritage, development of the preservation of monuments, methods of the preservation of monuments, legislation of the protection of monuments, historical settlement protection.

Prerequisites

The subject presupposses and develops the knowledge of the history of architecture; it may partly apply the knowledge of the civil engineering subjects. However, it is, for the most part, an independent specific discipline with its own methodological basis and legislation.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

1. Significance of the architectonic and urban heritages in the historical context
2. Characteristics of the generic structure of the architectonic and urban heritages
3. Transformation of an architectonic work in the particular style periods
4. Transformation of the settlement structures in the historical context
5. Development of the protection and presevation of monuments
6. Methods of the preservation of monuments – purism, scientific restoration, conservation
7. International institutions, documents and forms of the cultural heritage preservation
8. Contemporary preservation of monuments – sources, methods, conception
9. Organization, classification and legislation provision of the preservation of monuments
10. Conception of the monument intervention – construction documents, analysis, investigations
11. Conception of the monument intervention – new functional utilization, choice of the method
12. Forms of the protection of the historical settlements and their parts
13. New creation in the historical environment – genius loci, authenticity of the environment

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Knowledge of the monument restoration and renewal, architectonic heritage, development of the preservation of monuments, methods of the preservation of monuments, legislation of the protection of monuments, historical settlement protection.

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

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Kříž, M.: Rekonstrukce a ochrana památek. VUT Brno, 1997. (CS)
VOJTOVÁ,L.: Ochrana a regenerace kulturních hodnot v území. MU Brno, 2006. (CS)
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Recommended reading

Benešová, M.: Česká architektura v proměnách dvou století. Praha, 1985. (CS)
Halík, P., Kratochvíl, P., Nový, O.: Architektura a město. AV ČR Praha, 1996. (CS)
Hrůza, J.: Česká historická města. Praha, 1978. (CS)
Samek, B.: Umělecké památky Moravy a Slezska. Academia Praha, 1994. (CS)
Škabrada, J.: Konstrukce historických staveb. ČVUT Praha, 2000. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-APS Bachelor's

    branch APS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer