Course detail

Contemporary Architecture

FAST-AG01Acad. year: 2011/2012

Source information about the contemporary architectonic scene, main streams and leading personalities 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

doc. PhDr. Martin Horáček, Ph.D.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

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.

Prerequisites

The subject is involved in 1st 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 suppossed.

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. Architecture – a discipline between science and arts
2. Roots of the contemporary architecture
3. High-tech architecture (R. Rogers, N. Foster, N. Grimshaw and others)
4. Deconstructivism (P. Eisenmann, B.Tschumi, Z.Hadid and others)
5. Post-Modernism (R. Venturi, R. Bofill, J. Stirling and others)
6. European, American and Asian Regionalism
7. Historism and monument renewal
8. Creative individualism (F. Gehry, P. Zumthor, R. Koolhaas and others)
9. Contemporary architecture in Switzerland, Germany and Austria
10. Contemporary architecture in the Netherlands and Belgium
11. Contemporary architecture in Italy, Spain and Portugal
12. Contemporary architecture in the Far East
13. Czech architecture after 1989, Brno scene after 1989

Work placements

Not applicable.

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.

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

Collective: The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. Phaidon, 2004. 978-0714843124. (EN)
Collective: The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. Phaidon, 2008. 978-0714848747. (EN)
Kenneth Frampton: Moderní architektura: kritické dějiny. Academia, 2004. 9788020012616. (CS)
Krier, L.: Architektura - volba nebo osud. Academia Praha, 2001. 8020000127. (CS)

Recommended reading

Ševeček, L., Horňáková, L. (ed.): Středoevropská architektura 1890 - 1998. Zlín, 1999. [8085052326] (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-APS Bachelor's

    branch APS , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. PhDr. Martin Horáček, Ph.D.