1) Modernism in central Europe, magnetism of the Vienna school of Otto Wagner and his contemporaries, the situation in Bohemian countries. Art Noveau, Jugndstil, Modern Style at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Centres in Europe - Scotland (Glasgow), France (Ecole de Nancy, Lille, Paris), Catalonia (Barcelona), Austria-Hungary (Vienna, Prague). 2) The roots of Werkbund and on-going tendencies of Arts and Crafts in Europe. Modern urbanism in theory and practice (Sitte, Wagner, Howard and others) at the turn of the century, infiltration into the regions, changing of the style and form, application of the basic principles of the garden city in Bohemia and Moravia. 3) Art movements, artistic and architectonic avant-garde in the 1920s - Werkbund and Expressionism in Germany, Amsterdam school, Rudolf Steiner, cubism and rondo-cubism in Czech architecture, theory and practice. 4) French architectonic purism, Russian constructivism, Dutch neoplasticism, German Bauhaus, international Art Deco - Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925. Other important personalities of Adolf Loos and Josip Plečnik, their contribution for Czech and European architecture, the birth of the new European architecture language. 5) Le Corbusier and his influence on modern architecture, artistic links, the book Towards a New Architecture, urbanistic theories, basic models of the block of flats obytný dům, Dom-Ino and Citronan, influence on the European and world development, influence on the Czech and Czechoslovak architecture. 6) 1920s in the Czech architecture, movement Devětsil, founding of architectonic associations, architectonic magazines, VSK Brno 1928. Modernism as a doctrine in Europe and its influence. Important personalities (Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto?), C.I.A.M., programmes, congresses, the Athens Charter and the problems of modern urbanism. Social scope of the interwar architecture, German Siedlungen, experiences of Vienna (Hofs, etc.), exhibitions of Werkbund about living, its influence on Czech or Czechoslovak architecture - social programme and building. 7) Classicizing tendencies in architecture in the 1930, authoritative regimes - difference in their concept (comparison of Germany, USSR, Italy), Exhibition of Modern Art and Industry in Paris 1937, New York 1939, EUR 1942). Classicism in the democratic regimes of Czechoslovakia, France, the USA - the demand for the return of order 8) Modern tendencies in the architecture in the second half of the 20th century. New "-isms", architects and architecture. The difference in the concepts of modern architecture in the bipolar world. Postmodernism. Each topic takes one or two lectures.
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