Course detail

Introduction to the Traditional Building Trades

FAST-AG029Acad. year: 2023/2024

Implementation of development building trades from oldest time to the present clarifying conventional building processes with accent on the historic skilled handwork into detail.
Knowledge is useful either in area restoration of monuments or for understanding contemporary technologies and possible solutions of design details from point of view both architectural and building constructions.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. arch. Michal Werner

Department

Ústav architektury (ARC)

Entry knowledge

Subject uses knowledge acquisition in subjects Building construction and History of architecture and it is preparation for following subjects Traditional building trades and Detail in architecture.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Subject extendes knowledges acquire in subject Building construction, where is supplement to understanding of historic context and building trades.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. extended knowledge acquired in subject Building construction, where is supplement to understanding of historic context and building trades.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-APS (N) Bachelor's

    branch APS , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. arch. Michal Werner

Syllabus

1. Short development of building trades and their position from the very beginning to close 19.century, relation between industrial production and crafts, renewal of building trades in 19. century. 2. Craftsmanship, material, instruments and machinery, technologies. Man and environment. 3. Wood Science, macro and micro structure of wood, wood defects, hygroscopy and drying of wood, conditions of durability, appropriate application of wood, recognition of sorts of wood. 4. Carpentry - material, technology, special branches, construction of structural work of the building. 5. Carpentry and joinery - mutual comparison of manufacturing, building joinery works. 6. Joinery - technology, cabinetmaking, turners, carvers. 7. Bricklaying and stonework - mutual comparison, historical development, material, instruments and tools, bricks and brickmaking. 8. Bricklaying and stonework - building constructions and technologies. 9. Bricklaying and surface of constructions - plasters, stucco, patent stone, painting, tiling, mosaic. 10. Bricklaying and stonework - floor and paving, materials, instruments, technologies. 11. Roofs and tinsmith´s workshop - materials, tools, technologies. 12. Smithery and metalworking - comparison of the work of smith, locksmith, girdler. Materials, tools, technologies. 13. Stove building - fire, oven, fireplace, stove.