Course detail

Architectural Heritage Conservation

FA-PAP-TEAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course introduces conservation of cultural, namely architectural heritage in the broadest context. It presents the history of conservation movement, current situation in the world and the Czech Republic, conservation institutions and legislation, doctrinal conventions and recommendations, ethics of heritage conservation, typology of architectural heritage focusing on Central European environment, methods of research and renovation of architectural heritage, and selected technical aspects of maintenance and renovation.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Department of Monument Care (UPP)

Entry knowledge

Not applicable.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Written examination will be taken in person during the exam period.
Compulsory participation at the seminars and submission of seminar work.

Aims

The course aims to introduce the methods of conservation and care for architectural heritage and urban complexes, and to present the competences for architectural work in the environment with conserved valuable architectural building stock. Students will learn the methods of renovation and variants of conservation and new use of cultural heritage. Students will get the knowledge and skills essential for architects as high percentage of construction development is an intervention into the existing structures; and to formulate ecological, economical, ethical and aesthetic arguments to conserve their values.
Successful completion of the course will enable the students to:
  • have general overview of architectural heritage care;
  • identify heritage and other values of the inherited stock of buildings and to give arguments why they should be conserved;
  • interconnect the knowledge from the history of architecture and construction technology with practical questions of maintenance and renovation of monuments;
  • design professional concept of intervention into a historic development after some time of practice;
  • develop an adequate working documentation for a renovation project and to supervise its completion.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

ARCHITIZER. The World's Best Architecture. Phaidon Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1838660666. (EN)
CORREIA, Mariana; DIPASQUALE, Letizia; MECCA, Saverio, eds. VERSUS: Heritage for Tomorrow. Firenze University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9788866557418. (EN)
Česká architektura – Czech Architecture (series). Prague: Prostor, 1999-today. (EN)
NEUFERT, Ernst. Architects' Data. John Wiley & Sons, 2019. ISBN: 9781119284352. (EN)
NORBERG-SCHULZ, Christian. Meaning In Western Architecture. Rizzoli, 1980. ISBN 978-0847803194. (EN)
PHAIDON, eds. The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. Phaidon Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780714843124. (EN)
STUBBS, John H.; Emily G. MAKAŠ. Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas: National Experiences and Practice, Hoboken: Wiley, 2011. ISBN 978-0470603857. (EN)
SZMYGIN, Boguslaw (ed.). Conservation Officer´s Handbook: International Standards in Cultural Heritage Protection. Lublin: Lublin University of Technology, 2015. ISBN 978-83-940280-6-0. (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B_A+U Bachelor's 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer