Course detail
History of Architectural Drawing
FA-DAK-TAcad. year: 2025/2026
The lectures are accompanied by practical examples and thus provide a comprehensive view of the development of architectural drawing as a basic tool of forming architectural ideas. The course includes the oldest documents from the ancient times up to the first half of the 20th century. The course focuses on the differences between sketch, study, contractual sketch (possibly model) and the project documentation that was standardized in the era. The course presents the capabilities of linear drawing to catch the spatial form, especially representation of own and cast shadows, material qualities, use of perspective and axonometry, and the use of attributes (scale, dimensions, signature, and other identification data), and siting the building into the context (ways of representing the situation).
In the study programme “Architecture and Urban Design” the course is part of the theoretical courses.
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Number of ECTS credits
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Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Students are obliged to attend 70 % of lectures.
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the subject guarantor, personal attendance may be substituted with online attendance in the classes.
Aims
– Students will know the formal specifics of architectural drawing from the oldest examples until the first half of the 20th century.
– Students will familiarize themselves with the function of drawing in a specific historical and social context.
– Students will be able to identify the meaning in the process of preparation and realization of a particular structure.
– Students will attain the ability to understand architectural drawing as a specific source of information in learning about architecture of a specific historical era.
– Students will learn to understand architectural drawing as a document of architectural thinking of a particular author.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
FREY, Dagobert. Architekturzeichnung. WIRTH, Karl-August (ed.). Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte 1. München: Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, 1983. Dostupné z: http:// http://www.rdklabor.de/wiki/Hauptseite (DE)
KADEŘÁVEK, František. Geometrie a umění v dobách minulých. Praha: Půdorys, 1993. ISBN 80-900791-5-6 (CS)
KADEŘÁVEK, Fratišek. Úvod do dějin rýsování a zobrazovacích nauk. Praha: Nakladatelství ČSAV, 1954. Bez ISBN (CS)
REINLE, Adolf. Italienische und deutsche Architekturzeichnungen 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Basel: Wiese Verlag, 1994. ISBN 3-909164-25-0 (DE)
Zeichenunterricht. Von der Künstlerausbildung zur ästhetischen Erziehung seit 1500. Zürich: ETH - Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2017. (DE)
Recommended reading
FROMMEL, Sabine. Sebastian Serlio architect. Milano: Electa, 2003. ISBN 1-904313-22-1 (EN)
KŘÍŽOVÁ, Květa. Šlechtický interiér 19. století na dobových zobrazeních ze zámeckých sbírek. Praha: Panorama, 1993. ISBN 80-7038-246-5 (CS)
SCHREIBER, Guido. Linien-Perspektive für Architekten, Techniker, Mechaniker und Bauhandwerker. Berlin: Ernst Toeche Verlag, 1882. Bez ISBN. (DE)
ŠKABRADA, Jiří, EBEL, Martin. Chalupy v Čechách na historických stavebních plánech 1. Praha: Argo, 2014. ISBN 978-80-257-1358-7 (CS)
ŠKABRADA, Jiří, EBEL, Martin. Chalupy v Čechách na historických stavebních plánech 2. Praha: Argo, 2016. ISBN 978-80-257-2002-8 (CS)
VOLAVKA, Vojtěch. Česká kresba 19. století. Praha: Družstevní práce, 1949. Bez ISBN. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B_A+U Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme N_A+U Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
specialization --- (do 2022) , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional