Course detail

History of Architecture 5

FAST-AG025Acad. year: 2024/2025

Survey of the history of the 20th-century architecture ranging from the situation before the First World War to the 1960s. Rivalry and blending of the modernism and the traditionalism, the contribution of each of them from the points of view of the period propaganda and the present time. The outstanding personalities in the world and in the Czech lands.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Markéta Žáčková, Ph.D.

Department

Ústav architektury (ARC)

Entry knowledge

The subject connects with the knowledge of the preceding periods of the history of architecture – the Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Age, the 19th-century architecture and Early Modernism.

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 history of architecture, the Neoclassicism and the Historism, the interwar Avant-Garde, the Czechoslovak Functionalism, the fifties and sixties, the postmodern architecture, the late 20th century architecture.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the Neoclassicism and the Historism, the interwar Avant-Garde, the Czechoslovak Functionalism, the fifties and sixties, the postmodern architecture, the late 20th century architecture.

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

Mgr. Markéta Žáčková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Characteristics of the architecture of the 20th century 2. Frank Lloyd Wright 3. Avant-Garde in the Architecture of Italy 4. Avant-Garde in the Architecture of the Netherlands 5. Avant-Garde in the Russian Architecture 6. Bauhaus 7. Bohemian Architecture 1918-1939 8. Josef Gočár 9. Moravian Architecture 1918-1939 10. Traditionalism in the Architecture of Western Europe 1900-1945 11. Traditionalism in the Architecture of the USSR 12. Socialist Realism in Czechoslovakia 13. Louis Kahn