Course detail

History of civil engineering

FAST-HD1Acad. year: 2024/2025

History of civil engineering as part of techniques history in concurrence on history architecture.
Time and matter-of-fact connection between those components of history.
Division history of civil engineering on individual specializations and their historical development: building construction, traffic engineering (roads and railways), bridges, tunnels, hydraulic engineering, water distribution, dams and tanks.
Reference to architecture, science and technical systems.
Sources information on history of civil engineering.
Connection with architecture as life art, individual components. Analysis of single components of objective expression (society, social economics, clime, running etc.).
Summary of development constructional systems.
Historical evolution in exercitation constructional systems. Historical evolution in exercitation of construction materials depending on development scientific knowledge and development technology of production.
Passing of lectures is conditionally processing of series tests apposite programme subject and completed with opinion hand-lettered schematics of historical evolution of different systems, possibly completed with needed details.
Basic education tendency in this subject is to obtain survey in the development of civil engineering history and needed contexts.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Entry knowledge

Preview of knowledges from history of art and architecture after secondary education.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Acquire knowledges from this subject creates basis understanding of history development building construction, undestanding principles creation of design all their forms.
These knowledges are connected with understanding basis of building construction in follow subjectes.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Bukovský J., Hass F.: Dějiny stavitelství. CERM 1998
Nový a kol.: Dějiny techniky. Academia 1974
Zeitnmmer K.: Vývoj techniky. ČVUT 1994

Recommended literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

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