26 hod., optionally

1. Introduction and recommended sources of study 2. The Industrial Revolution and architecture 3. Origins of the Modernism in engineering and industry 4. Theoretical fountain-heads of the new aesthetics 5. Industrial inspiration of the interwar Avant-Garde – Germany, Soviet Russia 6. Industrial inspiration of the interwar Avant-Garde – France, Czechoslovakia 7. Postwar architecture of the splitted-up world 8. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – Archigram, J.Stirling 9. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – R.Rogers, N.Foster 10. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – M.Hopkins, N.Grimshaw 11. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – E.Jiřičná, J.Kaplický 12. Technicism in architecture in the Czech lands 13. Future of the technicism in architecture