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– Students will gain an insight into the contemporary Czech architecture.
– Students will learn to place the buildings and their authors into the continuous history of architecture.
– Students will learn to perceive the present-day architectural development in the context.

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Every semester of this course is unique. The course attempts to react to the current events, and includes the currently available exhibitions, publications or lectures by contemporary architects. The second half of the lectures introduce the most important names of the contemporary architectural scene. Frampton’s critical regionalism is further elaborated so that even the small Czech scene is not perceived as monolithic, so that Czech scene would offer the widest range of views on how to design and build.

Based on the lectures, students will learn to contextualise buildings and their authors into the continuous history of architecture. To accomplish the course, students will elaborate a presentation of their architectural interests that they will present to the rest of the course participants. Students will prove their knowledge of contemporary architecture in the follow-up discussion.

Course syllabus:

1. Around the school – examples of contemporary architecture in the close vicinity of the faculty
2. Public buildings in Brno – examples of contemporary public buildings in Brno which the students may visit
3. Two deans – Fránek × Lábus – different approaches to architecture by two deans of Czech Faculties of Architecture illustrated with their works.
4. Josef Pleskot – works by the most popular Czech architect
5. Fiala × Kroupa – Czech idiosyncratic architecture
6. Kraus × Sládeček – Czech playfulness
7. Mrva × Vlach – Czech periphery
8. Litomyšl – Czech epicentre – the phenomenon of the most architectural town
9. Brno youngest generation – contemporary young scene
10. Rajniš (DA) × Štempel (ADNS) – from the big to the small
11. HŠH – three excellent architects at three different schools, but with the common foundations
12. A69 × Projektil – the first successful generation after the Velvet revolution in 1989
13. Kuba Pilař – the best of Brno

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The course aims to place the contemporary Czech architects into the historical context. To show students how to perceive the contemporary Czech architecture in depth, and as a continuous development. To familiarize the students with the theory, and then to go on excursions to the field, to learn about the structures directly on-site. Also, to visit exhibitions and lectures given by the architects in question. The goal is to awaken students’ interest in buildings and in their creators, so that the students consequently start to search for the architects, try to contact them on their own, and eventually to start a cooperation.

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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HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Petra; KORYČÁNEK, Rostislav; SVOBODOVÁ, Šárka; VALDHANSOVÁ, Lucie. Brno Architecture Manual. Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 2017. ISBN 978-80-7009-180-7. (EN)
KRATOCHVÍL, Petr; ŠENK, Filip, (Ed.). Architektura mimo centra. Architecture Outside the Centres. Liberec: FUA TUL, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7494-052-1. (EN)
STEMPEL, Jan; TESAŘ, Jan; BENEŠ Ondřej. Czech houses. České domy. Praha: KANT, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7437-140-0. (EN)
ŠVÁCHA, Rostislav. Czech architecture and its austerity. fifty buildings 1989–2004, Praha: Prostor 2004. ISBN 978-8090325746 (EN)

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