JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM
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Course: Contemporary architecture I

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Course title Contemporary architecture I
Course code KDT/FU097
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Pavlíček Tomáš, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. A brief overview of architectural development in the period of the end of the 18th and the first half of the 19th century. The first minimalist tendency. 2. Architecture around the middle of the 19th century. Dislikes. Material changes, influence of new industries on architecture. The emergence of the Arts & Crafts movement. 3. Architecture of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Engineering architecture, geometric and floral art nouveau. English country House. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A. Gaudí. Chicago School, L. H. Sullivan. Organic Architecture by F. L. Wright. Deutsche Werkbund. 4. Otto Wágner, his students and the Vienna Secession. The phenomenon of Czech Cubism in architecture. 5. Development after the First World War. De Stijl movement. Russian constructivist avant-garde. 6. Purism. The personality and work of Le Corbusier. Establishment of CIAM. The founding of the Bauhaus school. 7. German architecture until 1933. Der Ring group. 8. Development of modern architecture in Czechoslovakia. Purist Four. Devětsil movement. A phenomenon of modern Zlín. 9. Functionalist architecture in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. 10. Selected examples of architecture of the late 1930s and early 1940s in Europe and beyond. 11. Architecture under the influence of totalitarian regimes. Developments in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Fascist Italy. 12. Summary and comparison of the overall development.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Cycle of courses (first part), in which students will learn about the development of architecture from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 1940s. In the given issue, the shift from historicist architecture towards modern morphology will be monitored. Emphasis is placed on basic development and breakthrough tendencies and important personalities whose work fundamentally changed the development of architecture, on theoretical and technical models of construction and architecture and urbanism in the era of changing social situations of modern times. The courses trace the birth of the concept of the modernist city as this idea appeared in works of avant-garde architecture.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
1. Fulfililing partial tasks and assignments throughtout the semestr 2. Active participation in the Studio tutoring
Recommended literature
  • ADLEROVÁ, A.; NEŠLEHOVÁ, M. a V. LAHODA (ed.). Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. (IV/1, 2), 1890-1938. Praha: Academia, 1998.
  • Benešová, M. Česká architektura v proměnách dvou století. SPN, Praha, 1984.
  • BLAŽÍČKOVÁ-HOROVÁ, N.; PETRASOVÁ, T. a H. LORENZOVÁ (ed.). Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. (III/1), 1780-1890. Praha: Academia, 2001.
  • Frampton, K. Moderní architektura. Kritické dějiny. Praha, Academia, 2004.
  • GALETA, J.; JANEČKOVÁ, M.; VYBÍRAL, J. Síla i budoucnost jest národu národnost: architektura a česká politika v 19. století. UMPRUM, Praha, 2020.
  • Haas, F. Architektura 20. století. SPN, Praha, 1983.
  • HATHERLEY, O. Militantní modernismus. UMPRUM, Praha, 2021.
  • POPELOVÁ, L.; ŠLAPETA, V.; VORLÍK, P. (eds.). Stavby století Čech, Moravy a Slezska 1918-2018. Foibos, Praha, 2018.
  • ŠVÁCHA, R. a J. MALÝ. Od moderny k funkcionalismu: proměny pražské architektury první poloviny dvacátého století. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995.
  • VYBÍRAL, J. Mladí mistři: architekti ze školy Otto Wagnera na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Praha: Argo, 2002.


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JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM, date of update: 01.12.2025 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026