Course detail

Contemporary Architecture

FAST-AG001Acad. year: 2024/2025

Source information about the contemporary architectonic scene, main streams and key figures 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

Mgr. Markéta Žáčková, Ph.D.

Department

Ústav architektury (ARC)

Entry knowledge

The subject is involved in the first 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

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Markéta Žáčková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction 1: Architecture and urban planning in Europe from the ancient times to the 18th century 2. Introduction 2: Architecture and urban planning in Europe since the 19th century 3. Roots of modernism (A. Loos, L. Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier) 4. Post-Modernism (R. Venturi, R. Bofill, J. Stirling and others) 5. High-tech (R. Rogers, N. Foster, N. Grimshaw and others) 6. Deconstructivism (P. Eisenman, B. Tschumi, Z. Hadid, R. Koolhaas and others) 7. Organic architecture (F. Gehry, S. Calatrava and others) 8. Minimalism (P. Zumthor, J. Herzog - P. de Meuron and others) 9. Critical regionalism (A. Siza, R. Legoretta and others) 10. Critics of modernism, traditionalism (L. Krier, Q. Terry and others) 11. Traditionalism and reconstructions of protected buildings 12. Czech architecture after 1989 13. Czech architecture after 1989, Brno scene after 1989