Course detail

Theory and Aesthetics in Architecture

FA-TEA-TEAcad. year: 2022/2023

The lectures will introduce students to the main tendencies of architectural development from the turn of the 19th and 20th century to the beginning of the third millennium. The lectures will be delivered in a comparative form, give the international context and focus on aesthetic and philosophical programmes of individual movements, and their practical application. We will also discuss the perspective of creative architects and the process of realization from the concept sketch to the last executed detail.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. arch. Vladimír Šlapeta, DrSc.

Department

Department of Theory (UT)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is comprised of lectures; self-study of basic and recommended literature is required.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Oral exam, including the test from self-study knowledge.

Course curriculum

Semester block schedule:
  1. Secession/ Art Nouveau and modernism – Central Europe, Benelux and France, cubism
  2. Functionalism, Purism, Constructivism, New Objectivity, Neoplasticism and organic architecture
  3. Brutalism and Structuralism, Metabolism
  4. Contemporary tendencies – Postmodernism, high-tech and deconstructivism

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The ability to orientate in the development of architecture, in the main tendencies and their protagonists in terms of aesthetics, philosophy, and technique.

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

Not applicable.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

CONRADS, Ulrich. Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-century Architecture. MIT Press, 1970. ISBN: 9780262530309. (EN)
CURTIS, William J. R. Modern Architecture Since 1900. Phaidon Press Ltd, 1996. ISBN: 9780714833569. (EN)
FRAMPTON, Kenneth. Modern Architecture: A Critical History: 1 (World of Art). Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2007. ISBN: 978-0500203958. (EN)
LOBELL, John. Louis Kahn: architecture as philosophy. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-58093-528-9. (EN)
OCKMAN, Joan; EIGEN Edward. Architecture Culture, 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology. Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 1993. ISBN: 9780847815227. (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NE_A+U Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. arch. Vladimír Šlapeta, DrSc.