1) Introduction, Enlightenment, Industrial revolution, New paradigms, new subjects, time dividing - literature. The task of École des Beaux Arts (Academies), theory, philosophy and the form of architecture (Boullée, Ledoux, Antique and Renaissance designs, The Prix de Rome). Model examples of architecture - central, longitudinal principle. Palladian villa as a starting point of civic building. 2) New definition of style - Classicism (Neoclassicism), historicisms, neo-styles and their application in modern society of "big" and small centres, Rationalism, Romanticism. Comparison of important European and world centres with the affairs in Bohemia and Moravia. 3) Engineering experiences of the architecture of the late 18th and the 19th century, new constructions, new materials and their influence on the changes in the concept of space - iron constructions, Chicago and the birth of modern American architecture, avant-garde according to Frank Lloyd Wright, new materials and their influence on the changes in the concept of space - reinforced concrete constructions. The role of technical schools - polytechnics - in the world and in Czech lands. 4) The role of neo-Renaissance in European architecture, Czech specificity (Antonín Wiehl, Jan Zeyer, Antonín Barvitius and other), neo-Gothic and preservation, theory and practice, conservation purism in European and Czech architecture. 5) Arts and Crafts, art crafts movement, Social utopia and Reformation (Ruskin, Owen, Fourier and others). William Morris, Red House and a model of family house of the type of Cottage. Shift of thinking into central Europe and Czech lands. 6) New typology and the phenomenon of universal exhibitions in the 19th century. Models of the reflection of the typology in the expression of architecture (from Gilly to Semper). Contribution of political, national and patriotic movements to modern typology - community centres and houses ("dělnický dům", "lidový dům", "okresní dům") abroad and in Czech lands. Theatres as an existing typology and their change in the 19th century - The Grand Opera abroad and in Bohemian countries (Fellner and Helmer) 7) Industrial society and rebuilding of cities, birth of metropolis. (Paris and Eugene Haussman, Napoleon III., Barcelona and Ildefonso Cerda, Vienna and the central- European experience - Ludwig Foerster, important centres in the world, important architects, urbanism and the birth of important metropolises - the influence of great concepts on the small towns in our countries. Each topic takes two lectures.
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