Course detail
Studio – Town and Place
FA-AT3-AAcad. year: 2025/2026
Working in a design studio is the main method of teaching architecture which comprehensively works with other methods of teaching process. It is based on the method „learning by doing“, i.e. gaining knowledge and skills when applying them in practice. It is a dialogue of pedagogues and students about the work-in-progress projects. The integral part of teaching are architecture critiques.
In Studio Town and Place students develop an architectural and urban design for a cluster of buildings, or a place/part of town/settlement.
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Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
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Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
It is compulsory to submit the project in the form of architectural study and to include (if the supervisor does not require otherwise):
– analysis of existing state, plotting of existing buildings if applicable,
– mapping of public space,
– broader relations/connections of the design and the conditions for its realization,
– definition of the design principles - clear architectural, spatial, economic and social concept of the design,
– operation schemas,
– concept schemas,
– design script,
– location plan,
– floor plans, sections, and elevations,
– visualisation of interiors comparable to existing state,
– physical model at a suitable (including its photographs).
The project is submitted in printed and electronic form in accordance with the FA internal standard “Study rules”.
The required annexes can be further specified by the project supervisor in the “project assignment”.
The following components of the design are evaluated:
– place, interpretation, analysis, synthesis, idea;
– processes, operation;
– massing, form, arrangement;
– presentation, adjustation, defence;
– student´s approach to the project elaboration.
The weight of individual components is defined by the supervisor.
The grading scale is given in Article 14 of the Study and Examination Rules of BUT. The recommended grading scale is the following:
– A: excellent project showing personal contribution, all aspects and components of the project are excellent
– B: very good project, or excellent project with partial deficiencies
– C: good project, skillfully designed and technically correct
– D: skillfully designed and technically correct project with partial deficiencies
– E: sufficiently developed project, with all assigned tasks completed, and complies with the legal requirements (standards)
The works which do not meet the minimal requirements (specified as E) are graded failed (grade F).
Students must attend one consultation a week at the times specified by their supervisor, two interim design critiques, and the final public presentation. Students must submit a design project that meets the requirements (further specified in the Course Evaluation section) and meet the submission deadline (specified in the internal guideline “Study Rules”).
The particular time schedule of the above mentioned compulsory lessons, or further compulsory participation, might be further specified by the project supervisor in the “project assignment”. The project assignment must be published in the Intranet FA simultaneously with the announcement of the topic description (before the registration of students).
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the supervisor, personal participation may be substituted with online participation in the studio.
Aims
– Students will acquire the ability to create an architectural and urban design for a complex of buildings, part of settlement or public space.
– Students will be able to analyse the urban, social and economic relations and apply them in the design.
– Students will be able to apply the basic standard requirements for urban designs.
– Students will acquire the ability to produce documentation for the architectural and urban study.
– Students will be able to understand the context of the place and to reflect it in their design.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
- compulsory prerequisite
Basics of Architecture - compulsory prerequisite
Studio – Small House - compulsory co-requisite
Urban Design Composition - compulsory co-requisite
Designing Towns - recommended prerequisite
Studio – Large House - recommended prerequisite
Design of Buildings 1 - recommended prerequisite
Design of Buildings 2
Basic literature
LYNCH, Kevin, Lenka POPELOVÁ a Jaroslav HUŤA. Obraz města = The image of the city. Praha: Polygon, 2004, xi, 202 s. : il., plány. ISBN 80-7273-094-0. (CS)
NEUFERT, Ernst a Peter NEUFERT. Navrhování staveb: zásady, normy, předpisy o zařízeních, stavbě, vybavení, nárocích na prostor, prostorových vztazích, rozměrech budov, prostorech, vybavení, přístrojích z hlediska člověka jako měřítka a cíle. 2. české vyd., (35. něm. vyd.). Praha: Consultinvest, 2000, 618 s. : il., plány. ISBN 80-901486-6-2. (CS)
NORBERG-SCHULZ, Christian, Petr KRATOCHVÍL a Pavel HALÍK. Genius loci: krajina, místo, architektura. 2. vyd. Praha: Dokořán, 2010, 219 s. : il., mapy, plány ; 25 cm. ISBN 978-80-7363-303-5. (CS)
SITTE, Camillo a Vladimír BURIÁNEK. Stavba měst podle uměleckých zásad. 2. české vyd. ÚÚR : ABF, 2012, 111 s. : il., 1 portrét, plány, faksim. ; 23 cm. ISBN 978-80-87318-21-8. (CS)
Recommended reading
KRATOCHVÍL, Petr. Veřejný prostor v ohrožení?: aktuální problémy městského veřejného prostoru z pohledu společenskovědních disciplín. Praha: Artefactum, 2018, 143 stran : ilustrace. ISBN 978-80-88283-18-8. (CS)
MAIER, Karel a Vít ŘEZÁČ. Ekonomika v území: urbanistická ekonomika a územní rozvoj. Vyd. 3., přeprac. V Praze: Nakladatelství ČVUT, 2006, 91 s. : il. ; 30 cm. ISBN 80-01-03447-X. (CS)
OSWALT, Philipp. Shrinking cities. New York: Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2006. ISBN ISBN978-3-7757-1682-6. (CS)
Urbanistická čítanka 2: Vybrané texty urbanistické literatury XX. století. Praha: Česká komora architektů, 2003, 112 s. ISBN 80-902735-8-0. (CS)
WHYTE, William Hollingsworth. The social life of small urban spaces. Santa Monica, Calif.: [2007]: Direct Cinema [distributor], 2007, 1 DVD-video (59 min., 17 s.) : zvuk., barev. ; 12 cm. ISBN 1-55974-687-4. (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B_A+U Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
specialization --- (do 2022) , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory