Course detail

Architecture of Technical Civilization

FAST-AG54Acad. year: 2016/2017

The optional subject is aimed at the past and the present of architecture inspired by technology and industry; it reflects the rational and romantic fountain-heads of the technicism in architecture, its decisive influence on the birth of the Modern Movement and the late manifestations of its most outstanding protagonists. It sets about anticipating the technology impact on the future of the 21st century architecture.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. arch. Alois Nový, CSc.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

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.

Prerequisites

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

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

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

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

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.

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

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)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-APS Bachelor's

    branch APS , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. arch. Alois Nový, CSc.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. arch. Alois Nový, CSc.