Course detail

Monument Restoration

FAST-AG008Acad. year: 2024/2025

Set of basic information on the process of the preservation of the architectonic heritage and its cultural values, aiming at comprehension of the importance of the monument preservation. The principles of determining the conception of monument interventions as a procedure issuing from the construction documents and familiarization with a building and leading to a new functional utilization and rehabilitation of a monument.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Ústav architektury (ARC)

Entry knowledge

The subject presupposes and develops the knowledge of the history of architecture; it may partly apply the knowledge of the civil engineering subjects. However, it is, for the most part, an independent specific discipline with its own methodological basis and legislation.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Knowledge of the monument restoration and renewal, architectonic heritage, development of the preservation of monuments, methods of the preservation of monuments, legislation of the protection of monuments, historical settlement protection.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the monument restoration and renewal, architectonic heritage, development of the preservation of monuments, methods of the preservation of monuments, legislation of the protection of monuments, historical settlement protection.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Significance of the architectonic and urban heritages in the historical context 2. Characteristics of the generic structure of the architectonic and urban heritages 3. Transformation of an architectonic work in the particular style periods 4. Transformation of the settlement structures in the historical context 5. Development of the protection and preservation of monuments 6. Methods of the preservation of monuments – purism, scientific restoration, conservation 7. International institutions, documents and forms of the cultural heritage preservation 8. Contemporary preservation of monuments – sources, methods, conception 9. Organization, classification and legislation provision of the preservation of monuments 10. Conception of the monument intervention – construction documents, analysis, investigations 11. Conception of the monument intervention – new functional utilization, choice of the method 12. Forms of the protection of the historical settlements and their parts 13. New creation in the historical environment – genius loci, authenticity of the environment

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

In the practice the student has to prepare, present, and submit the seminar work about the restoration of the cultural sight. Week 1 (2) - getting acquainted with the topic, choosing the seminar work subject Week 3 (4) - the theory practise, determining of the style periods (using the typical signs, and morphology) Week 5 (6) - to specify the task, and the ascent of the work, the examples of the elaborated seminar works, arrangement of the sources, to make the work Week 7 (8) - to make the seminar work Week 9 (10) - 11 (12) - works presentation, discussion, conclusions Week 13 - to submit the work; evaluation