Course detail
Specialized Studio B1 – Design Research and Build
FA-SB1-AEAcad. year: 2025/2026
In this course students elaborate a one semester project and develop their knowledge gained in the previous bachelor study program. The course develops the skills of the future architects focusing on the theoretical and conceptual part of the design.
The topics of the module Design Research and Build are chosen mainly in cooperation with municipalities and voluntary associations. In the form of contract research and other partner forms, specific problems are verified at various scales, from urban details, small constructions to interiors or scenography. Research by design (verification of the problem using architectural and urban studies) and design/build (construction of selected objects) methods are chosen, including the intersections of these methods. Interdisciplinary cooperation with other artistic fields (sculpture, photography, arts and crafts and others) is applied.
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Offered to foreign students
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Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
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 design showing personal contribution, all aspects and components of the project are excellent
- B: very good design, or excellent design with partial deficiencies
- C: good design, technically correct
- D: technically correct design with partial deficiencies
- E: sufficiently developed design, with all assigned tasks completed, it complies with the legal requirements (standards)
The supervisor is authorized to require parallel or preceding participation in relevant selective courses.
Students must attend one consultation a week at the times specified by their supervisor and the in-semester design critiques. Students must submit a design project that meets the requirements specified by the supervisor at the beginning of the semester.
The design project must be submitted by the deadline specified by the directive The rules of study at FA, and any changes must be stated before the students register.
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.
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Basic literature
Česká architektura – Czech Architecture (series). Prague: Prostor, 1999-today. (EN)
Detail. Review of architecture and construction details. München: Detail Business Information GmbH, 1961. ISSN: 1614-4600. (EN)
NEUFERT, Ernst. Architects' Data. John Wiley & Sons, 2019. ISBN: 9781119284352. (EN)
NORBERG-SCHULZ, Christian. Genius loci. ELECTA ED., 1979. (EN)
PHAIDON, eds. The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. Phaidon Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780714843124. (EN)
THE PLAN. Sustainable Architecture. Promopress, 2017. ISBN: 9788416504206. (EN)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NE_A+U Master's
specialization --- (2023) , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional - Programme NE_A+U Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective