Course detail

Architecture of the 20th century

FaVU-ACHE20Acad. year: 2014/2015

The series of lectures consists of main streams and movements, theories, representatives and works of the world architecture since the 1960s, when both systematic criticism and creative reaction to the inter-war international style of functionalism began to emerge. All the tendencies of the late 20th century will be characterized - post-modernism, the continuation of modernism, high-tech, deconstructivism etc.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. PhDr. Jan Sedlák, CSc.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Knowledge which enables students fruitful cooperation and creative artistic dialogue with architects.

Prerequisites

Chapters on architecture based on the tuition of art-history on the bachelor level.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Written composition with visual support, focusing on the relevant style, art-form, movement, personality etc. from the area of the world or Czech architecture from the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Course curriculum

Comparison of the representatives of the inter-war functionalism with their critics who gave birth to postmodernism in the 1960s.
Replacement of ideological and artistic dogmas of modernism with postmodernist plurality expressed in deconstructivism, high-tech etc.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The series of lectures provides students with the orientation in the complex issues of the relationship between architecture and fine arts since the 1920s.

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

Lecures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Master's

    branch AIN , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch APD , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM1 , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AKG , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AS2 , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AVI , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch APE , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM2 , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM3 , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch ATD , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AMU , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AGD2 , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AEN , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AS1 , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AGD1 , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. PhDr. Jan Sedlák, CSc.