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– Students will acquire the first general, critical, theoretical, and historiographic terminology, and design problems during the lectures.
– Students will gain the ability and skills to test them in their first studio work, hence in their first specific design.
– Students will familiarize themselves with the methods and results of creating their first small-scale design: brief, concept, design (programme, volume and space, structure, construction, and material).
– In the process of group critiques, students will gain the ability to get a critical distance and reflection on their own design, the ability to verify and modify the state and method of designing.
– Students will gain experience in working individually on the design, working in a small group, and also in a large (study year) group: they will gain awareness of the work of the previous generation, as well as of the generation they will study and work with.

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Methods of teaching in the Basics of Architecture are:
1. Explanation of terminology, problems, and general questions in the lectures, where the presented methods of designing will be introduced and critically interpreted. Critical study and discussion of design methods in contemporary architecture.
2. Individual consultation of work in progress with the supervisor and the doctoral students.
3. Critical reflection on the work in progress in groups.
4. Presentation of the results in groups – critical discussion.

It is required to submit 1) concept, 2) process, and 3) the resulting design (forming 20 + 20 + 40 = 80 %). Participation at the critiques comprises 20 % of the evaluation. The design is submitted in paper/physical and digital form, and it contains: A) poster/digital projection, B) A3 folder/video/ digital file, C) physical/virtual model.

Block I. ARCHITECTURAL SITUATION AND COMMUNICATION: CONCEPTS AND INSPIRATION: RECORDING AND ANALYSING
LECTURE: Preliminary understanding: what is architecture and situation. Recording architecture and situation.
STUDIO: In the world around you, find and choose a situation with information that you would like to record so that it could be communicated. (To what and to who is the situation/information related, and how is the situation related to you as the designer?) Methods: Collection and selection of records. Proposals for further text and visual records/representations in relation to the selected methods of visualization/rendering: A. dynamic/static records (2D/3D text and image-plane, image-object and image-space: drawing: painting: collage: assemblage: photography). B. moving record (2D/3D video, film, animation). C. performative/interactive/responsive record (2D/3D performance, interactive or responsive image, object, digital or physical environment).
LECTURE: What is a problem situation? What is a diagram, notation, script, story-board… ? What is script and creative scripting?
STUDIO: Design a solution for a problem situation (How to get to the other bank of the river without a ford? How to get a bird's eye view in a flat land? How to live on the water/above the water/under the water?...) Design 2D/3D recording of the solution of the problem situation as a time-space notations, diagrams, scripts, story-boards… Select determinants/ parameters of your solution in time and space. Based on the diagrams, notation, scripts and determinants/parameters of the solution, propose a redesign and a new model for the new situation (To what and to who is the remodeling and new modeling related, how is it related to your situation?) What is the process of re-modeling and creation of a new model (diagraming, parametrisation…)? Methods: Design a 2D/3D concept and methods on how to develop your form, how to transform it and turn into a new form of your solution in time and space. Transformation 1: environment – external and internal. Transformation 2: types of scales. Transformation 3: structure – construction, construction – material.

Block II. VOLUME AND SPACE AND ENVIRONMENT: GEOMETRY (DIMENSION AND SCALE): USAGE AND PROGRAMME: SHAPE AND FORM
LECTURE: What is volume and space?
STUDIO: Relations between volume and space.
LECTURE: What is environment? People and things in the environment: movement and activity.
STUDIO: Design ways how to record the movement of things and people (and their activities) in time and space; and design a complex of characteristics/ parameters of this system. Methods: design of 3D records of rendering structure.

Block III. STRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION AND ENVELOPE
LECTURE: What is a structure, construction and envelope (basic terminology of materials). What is a space structure and construction (basic terminology of building construction).
STUDIO: Relations between structure, construction and envelopes in your model. Relations between structure and construction in your 2D/3D model.

Block IV. DESIGN TOOLS AND DESIGN
LECTURE: What is a tool? Co je navrhování nástroje na návrh budoucích návrhů?
STUDIO: Based on your model and its remodelling, design a tool/machine and methods that will enable you to design other designs and their models. The design of the tool/machine and design methods may have various scales and materials (digital data, real material), various relationships to the natural and cultural environment - live or inanimate, including humans (visible, audible, tactile, wearable, inhabitable…).

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The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basic elements, methods, phases and results of architectural designing in relation to the fundamentals of architectural thinking. The triadic process is crucial: 1) general introduction, 2) specific assignment and its process/method, and 3) critiques which lead to the final design: its projection and reflection. The basic knowledge and skills that the architects/designers will acquire will be the ability to create, identify and mutually interconnect the general and specific components and methods of design via critical testing of the methods as well as the results of the design. After the individual work and consultation, the group critiques and the final presentation of the design in the studio are an important process where the students gain the basic knowledge and skills on how to present their own design to the professional public, and how to give arguments and justify their own design.

Students are obliged to attend the lecture blocks and consultation blocks in one week, and the critiques block in the following week. The unexcused absence from the blocks in two weeks is accepted. The lectures nor critiques cannot be compensated, they could be only excused. The consultation can be compensated upon the arrangement with the supervisor of the work.
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the subject guarantor, personal attendance may be substituted with online attendance in the classes.

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