Course detail

History of Architecture IV.

FAST-AG24Acad. year: 2011/2012

Survey of the history of 19th-century and early 20th-century architecture on the background of the revolutionary breakthrough caused by the Industrial Revolution and the victory of the Enlightenment. Basic information ranging from the Classicism and the Empire Style both in the foreign countries and in the Czech lands, the Romanticism in architecture, the historism in Europe, America and the Czech land, conditions of the Modern Movement origin, its theoretical background, to the concrete manifestations in the works of the most outstanding personalities.

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. 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.

Prerequisites

The subject connects with the history of the Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Modern Age.

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. Industrial Revolution and the impact of social changes on the evolution of architecture
2. Classicism and the Empire Style in France, England, Germany, Russia and America
3. Classicism and the Empire Style in Bohemia and Moravia
4. Romaniticism in England, France and Germany
5. Romanticism in the Czech and Moravian lands
6. Historism in Europe and America
7. Neo-styles in Bohemia and Moravia
8. Roots of the Modernism: Victorian engineering, Art Noveau, Arts and Crafts
9. European Art Noveau (Horta, van de Velde, Gaudí, Mackintosh, Wagner and others)
10. Art Noveau in Bohemia and Moravia (Fanta, Balšánek, Jurkovič, Kotěra and others)
11. Forefield of the Modernism in the U.S.A., the Chicago School
12. Architecture of the individualistic Modernism
13. Individualistic Modernism in Bohemia and Moravia

Work placements

Not applicable.

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.

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

Kratochvíl Petr a kol.: Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české: Architektura. Paseka, 2009. 9788074320019. (CS)
Raeburn, M.: Dějiny architektury. Odeon Praha, 1993. 80-207-0185-0. (CS)
Zatloukal, P.: Příběhy z dlouhého století. MU Olomouc, 2002. 80-85227-49-5. (CS)

Recommended reading

Haas, F.: Vývoj architektury a umění v 19. a 20. století. SNTL Praha, 1983. (CS)
Pijoan, J.: Dějiny umění. Euromedia Praha, 2000. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-APS Bachelor's

    branch APS , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. PhDr. Martin Horáček, Ph.D.