Course detail

Contemporary Architecture

FAST-AG01Acad. year: 2024/2025

Source information about the contemporary architectonic scene, main streams and leading personalities determining the contemporary architecture. At the very beginning of study it serves as initial knowledge applied in a student’s studio work in the following semester.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. PhDr. Martin Horáček, Ph.D.

Department

Ústav architektury (ARC)

Entry knowledge

The subject is involved in 1st semester of study and thus there is no connection with any previous discipline. The general knowledge of culture and history at the secondary school level is supposed.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Basic grasp of the contemporary architecture, roots of the contemporary architecture, present streams, rational and creative branches of the world’s and home scenes.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e.basic grasp of the contemporary architecture, roots of the contemporary architecture, present streams, rational and creative branches of the world’s and home scenes.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Krier, L.: Architektura - volba nebo osud. Academia Praha, 2001. 8020000127. (CS)
Kenneth Frampton: Moderní architektura: kritické dějiny. Academia, 2004. 9788020012616. (CS)
Collective: The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. Phaidon, 2004. 978-0714843124. (EN)
Collective: The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. Phaidon, 2008. 978-0714848747. (EN)

Recommended literature

Ševeček, L., Horňáková, L. (ed.): Středoevropská architektura 1890 - 1998. Zlín, 1999. [8085052326] (CS)

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. PhDr. Martin Horáček, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Architecture – a discipline between science and arts 2. Roots of the contemporary architecture 3. High-tech architecture (R. Rogers, N. Foster, N. Grimshaw and others) 4. Deconstructivism (P. Eisenmann, B.Tschumi, Z.Hadid and others) 5. Post-Modernism (R. Venturi, R. Bofill, J. Stirling and others) 6. European, American and Asian Regionalism 7. Historism and monument renewal 8. Creative individualism (F. Gehry, P. Zumthor, R. Koolhaas and others) 9. Contemporary architecture in Switzerland, Germany and Austria 10. Contemporary architecture in the Netherlands and Belgium 11. Contemporary architecture in Italy, Spain and Portugal 12. Contemporary architecture in the Far East 13. Czech architecture after 1989, Brno scene after 1989