Czech

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Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. grasp of the interaction of the technology and architecture, the Industrial Revolution, the beginnings of the Modern Movement, the interwar Avant-Garde, the present and the future of the technicism in architecture.

The subject connects with the preceding lectures on contemporary architecture and history of architecture, particularly history of the 20th-century architecture.

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

1. Introduction and recommended sources of study
2. The Industrial Revolution and architecture
3. Origins of the Modernism in engineering and industry
4. Theoretical fountain-heads of the new aesthetics
5. Industrial inspiration of the interwar Avant-Garde – Germany, Soviet Russia
6. Industrial inspiration of the interwar Avant-Garde – France, Czechoslovakia
7. Postwar architecture of the splitted-up world
8. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – Archigram, J.Stirling
9. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – R.Rogers, N.Foster
10. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – M.Hopkins, N.Grimshaw
11. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – E.Jiřičná, J.Kaplický
12. Technicism in architecture in the Czech lands
13. Future of the technicism in architecture

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Grasp of the interaction of the technology and architecture, the Industrial Revolution, the beginnings of the Modern Movement, the interwar Avant-Garde, the present and the future of the technicism in architecture.

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

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Ackermann, K.: Industriebau. DVA Stuttgart, 1994. (DE)
Cook, P.: Archigram. Birkhäuser Boston, 1991. (EN)
Masák, M.: Mašinisti. GJF Praha, 1996. (CS)
Moor ,R., Powell, K: Structure, Space and Skin. Phaidon Press London, 1993. (EN)
Pevsner, N.: Pioneers of Modern Design. Penguin Books London, 1991. (EN)
Sudjic, D.: Foster, Rogers, Stirling. Thames and Hudson London, 1989. (EN)

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