Course detail
Basics of Geoecology
FA-ZGE-TEAcad. year: 2025/2026
The course introduce selected topics that are important for architects from auxiliary science disciplines of geoecology, geomorphology, hydrology, paedology and soil erosion, climatology, ecology, nature protection, agriculture and forestry, geography of tourist industry, free-time activities in landscape, liturgy in landscape etc.
Language of instruction
English
Number of ECTS credits
1
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Not applicable.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Graded credit is awarded for seminar paper.
The seminars are optional, their basic content is available in study materials which are stored on the shared disc and available during the whole semester.
The seminars are optional, their basic content is available in study materials which are stored on the shared disc and available during the whole semester.
Aims
The main goal of the course is to introduce the students to the ecological and landscape aspects of their architectural designs.
- Method of analysis, the knowledge and application of landscape contexts in architectural design – basics of contextual architecture.
- Basic information for designing the unbuilt parts of urban complexes and for designing rural areas of municipalities in spatial planning.
- Ability to evaluate landscape character.
- Knowledge of tools and techniques and their application in designing rural landscape.
- Ecologic minimum for the students focused on „ecologic“ (rather environmental friendly) houses.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
BASTIAN O., Structure, function and change - three main aspects in investigation of biotic landscape componeus, 1988 (EN)
FORMAN, GORDON, Lanscape medification and changing ecological charakteristies. In: Ecological Studies - Analysis and Synthesis. New York, 1983. ISSN: 0070-8356. (EN)
LÖW, Jiří, WITTMANN, Maxmilian, DOHNAL Tomáš. Rural Landscaping and its Tools. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7623-085-9. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11012/207502 (EN)
Miklós L., Růžička M., Landscape - ecological planning in the process of territorial planing, Ekológia ČSSR 1, 1982 (EN)
FORMAN, GORDON, Lanscape medification and changing ecological charakteristies. In: Ecological Studies - Analysis and Synthesis. New York, 1983. ISSN: 0070-8356. (EN)
LÖW, Jiří, WITTMANN, Maxmilian, DOHNAL Tomáš. Rural Landscaping and its Tools. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7623-085-9. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11012/207502 (EN)
Miklós L., Růžička M., Landscape - ecological planning in the process of territorial planing, Ekológia ČSSR 1, 1982 (EN)
Recommended reading
Not applicable.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BE_A+U Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory