Course detail

Individual Housing

FAST-AG52Acad. year: 2011/2012

The subject extends the knowledge in the field of family housing that students acquire in the 1st year of study. They learn to perceive the highest quality of individual dwelling from both the historical point of view and the point of view of contemporary perception in the context of present general problems, e.g. the global green vegetation decrease, the introduction of new technologies and materials in the family-house building, the changes in social and family life stereotypes, etc. Thus the students become ready for actual assignments raised by the needs of today´s society.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of family housing, the Modernism and the Functionalism, the after-war building, a late 20th-century family house, the contemporary tendencies.

Prerequisites

The prerequisite is the general knowledge of culture and history at the secondary school level.

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. Introduction to the problems, specification of the concepts, assignment of a seminar paper
2. Concise historical development of family housing
3. Development of a family house as a typological kind
4. Family house in the architecture of modernism and functionalism
5. Excursion
6. After-war building
7. Family houses in the sixties and the seventies
8. Seminar discussions about a design in progress
9. Family house in the last decade of 20th century
10. Contemporary tendencies and aspects of the family house design
11. Lecture of a "star" architecture representative
12. Student´s assignment presentation
13. Student´s assignment presentation

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Knowledge of the history of family housing, the Modernism and the Functionalism, the after-war building, a late 20th-century family house, the contemporary tendencies.

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

Kubelík, M.: 400 let benátských vil. Správa pražského hradu, 1993. ISBN 8090003184. (CS)

Recommended reading

Dvořáková, Dita a Krajčí, Petr a Lukeš, Zdeněk a Sedláková, Radomíra a Veverka, Přemysl a Vl, Pavel ček: Slavné pražské vily. Praha: Foibos, 2007. ISBN 978-80-87073-01-8. (CS)
Goryczková, Naděžda a Strakoš, Martin a Šlapeta, Vladimír a Vybíral, Jindřich: Slavné vily Moravskoslezského kraje. Praha: Foibos, 2008. ISBN 978-8087073-09-4. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-APS Bachelor's

    branch APS , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer