FAST-AG001Acad. year: 2020/2021
Source information about the contemporary architectonic scene, main streams and key figures determining the contemporary architecture. At the very beginning of study it serves as initial knowledge applied in a student’s studio work in the following semester.
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e.basic grasp of the contemporary architecture, roots of the contemporary architecture, present streams, rational and creative branches of the world’s and home scenes.
The subject is involved in the first semester of study and thus there is no connection with any previous discipline. The general knowledge of culture and history at the secondary school level is supposed.
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1. Introduction 1: Architecture and urban planning in Europe from the ancient times to the 18th century
2. Introduction 2: Architecture and urban planning in Europe since the 19th century
3. Roots of modernism (A. Loos, L. Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier)
4. Post-Modernism (R. Venturi, R. Bofill, J. Stirling and others)
5. High-tech (R. Rogers, N. Foster, N. Grimshaw and others)
6. Deconstructivism (P. Eisenman, B. Tschumi, Z. Hadid, R. Koolhaas and others)
7. Organic architecture (F. Gehry, S. Calatrava and others)
8. Minimalism (P. Zumthor, J. Herzog - P. de Meuron and others)
9. Critical regionalism (A. Siza, R. Legoretta and others)
10. Critics of modernism, traditionalism (L. Krier, Q. Terry and others)
11. Traditionalism and reconstructions of protected buildings
12. Czech architecture after 1989
13. Czech architecture after 1989, Brno scene after 1989
Basic grasp of the contemporary architecture, roots of the contemporary architecture, present streams, rational and creative branches of the world’s and home scenes.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Type of course unit
26 hours, optionally
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