Course detail
Architect´s Practice
FA-ARP-KEAcad. year: 2025/2026
The course informs students about the aspects of architectural practice, function of state government, possibilities how to develop their career, professional environment, the meaning, responsibility and methodology of work etc.
The seminars provide basic knowledge needed to become an architect, to lead a private practice and other related activities (how to start a private design office, legal forms of legal subjects, accountancy management, design phases, requirements of a building permission process etc.)
The gained basic theoretical knowledge are applied in simple assignments developed during the seminars. The knowledge gained from the seminars will familiarize students with the problems that may occur in their future architectural practice.
Within the lectures part important personalities from the architectural environment, from centers and provinces, with longer or shorter practice, will be invited.
The course introduces selected architects practising in the Czech Republic and internationally in various specializations: architecture of buildings, urban design, interior, heritage protection, state and local government, support and promotion of architecture.
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Number of ECTS credits
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Offered to foreign students
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Students are allowed to sit the exam when they have submitted all assignments. The assignments must meet all of the content requirements.
Mandatory participation in seminars, can be excused only for serious reasons. Replacement possible in the form of consultation of processed tasks.
Aims
To gain the basic information and knowledge necessary for activities in the practice:
– professional environment
– the conditions for the performance of the profession, employment
– creation and management, contractual relations, requisites, object, price/fee
– performance standards
– contract
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
FISHER, Thomas. Ethics for Architects: 50 Dilemmas of Professional Practice. Chronicle Books, 2012. ISBN: 9781616890797. (EN)
HNILIČKA, Pavel. Standards of Architects‘ Scope of Services. Praha: Česká komora architektů, 2018. URL: https://www.cka.cz/cs/media/prilohy/standard-sluzeb_en_2018.pdf (EN)
CHAPPELL, David; DUNN, Michael H. The Architect in Practice. John Wiley & Sons, 2016. ISBN: 9781118907733. (EN)
NICHOLSON, M. Paul. Architects' Guide to Fee Bidding. Taylor & Francis, 2002. ISBN: 978-0415273367. (EN)
TAIT, James. Entering Architectural Practice. Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 9780367365141. (EN)
UIA Accord on Recommended International Standards of Professionalism in Architectural Practice. International Union of Architects, 2017. URL: https://www.uia-architectes.org/webApi/uploads/ressourcefile/412/uia_accord___updated_2017.pdf (EN)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NE_A+U Master's
specialization --- (2023) , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory - Programme NE_INUS Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme BX_A+U Bachelor's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme NE_A+U Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective