Course detail

Art – architecture

FaVU-UA-LAcad. year: 2019/2020

A survey of the last 50 years in the Czech and international art, which finds itself in a close relationship to architecture. Many artists have been recently turning towards architecture and using it as a (resource) material: they explore history of architecture, revisit avant-garde utopian thinking, comment on social frameworks, directly replace the architect or work with one of the key elements of architecture – with space.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will get a deeper knowledge of the developments of relationships between art and architecture in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Students will orient themselves in the important artworks and exhibition projects that reflect architecture or regard it as its motif / content (both in the Czech and international art).

Prerequisites

A moderate knowledge of the history of art and architecture in the 2nd half of the 20th century.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam.

Course curriculum

1. A relationship between art and architecture in the 1st half of the 20th century (Le Corbusier, Kurt Schwitters, De Stijl, Kazimir Malevič, Sowiet constructivists, Friedrich Kiesler, surrealist exhibitions) and its later consequences.
2. Independent group (UK) and This Is Tomorrow (1956) exhibition. A discussion on the ideal synthesis between art and architecture (Herbert Read, Sigfried Giedion et al.).
3. Minimalism in the USA (esp. R. Morris, D. Flavin, W. de Maria) and its influence on the architecture (Jacques Herzog a Pierre de Meuron).
4. Richard Serra, Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark. Other examples of the site-specific art (Robert Smithson, Christo ad.).
5. A synthesis of the art and architecture in the Czech art of the 1960s. Expo 58 – Expo 67 – Expo 70. Czechoslovakian pavilions as Gesamtkunstwerk: a change in the collaboration between artists and architects.
6. From the exhibition Realisation (1961) towards the exhibition Sculpture and City (1969). Art in architecture in the 1960s and in the “normalisation” period.
7. Utopian visions in architecture (Buckminster Fuller, Archigram, Japanese metabolists) and their influence on the Czech art (Karel Malich, Václav Cígler et al.).
8. A theory of post-modern architecture and how has it been applied on the Czech art (Jiří Ševčík). Symposia of artists and architects. The exhibitions Urbanity and Painted Architecture. Architectural proposals by Milan Knížák.
9. The key figures of the 1990s: Rachel Whiteread, Absalon, Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, Marjetica Potrč, Pipilotti Rist et al.
10. Stanislav Kolíbal – Jiří Příhoda – Dominik Lang. How the work with space developed n the Czech art since the 1960s. Czech artists who explored a theme of architecture: Petr Kvíčala, Federico Díaz, Michal Škoda. The exhibitions Artwork in the Public Space (1997/1998) and ArtCHITECTURE (2002).
11. Artists within architecture: decorators or the partners? Some models of collaboration: Ai WeiWei a Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, Projektil architekti a PAS et al.
12. Blocks of flats as the motif (Josef Bolf, David Možný, Ládví, Kateřina Šedá, Tomáš Džadoň ). Architecture and re-evaluating of the “ruins of the past” (Zbyněk Baladrán, Ján Mančuška, Barbora Klímová, Dominik Lang). Space and architecture in sculpture, painting and videoart (Jan Pfeiffer, Daniel Pitín, Isabela Grosseová, Pavla Sceranková ad.). The exhibition Shadows of the former utopias (2011).
13. Art-architecture complex in theory (hal Foster, Sylvia Lavin) and in contemporary (international) art.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to identify contemporary tendencies in the field of relationships between art and architecture, and to uncover developments that inform today's situation in the field. Another aim of the course is to create an overview of the actual forms of collaborations between artists and architects.

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

Compulsory attendance (3 absences allowed).

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 VUM Master's

    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer