Course: Contemporary architecture II

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Course title Contemporary architecture II
Course code KDT/FU098
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
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. Overview of developments after the Second World War. 2. International style (influence of Mies van der Rohe's minimalism). Brutalism (Le Corbusier, Alice and Peter Smithson). 3. Japanese metabolism. High-tech (Studio Archigram). 4. Organic architecture. 5. Deconstructivism. 6. Postmodern architecture. 7. Development of architecture in Czechoslovakia in the years 1948?1968. 8. Development of architecture in Czechoslovakia in the years 1968?1989. 9. Selected examples of modern urbanism. 10. Current world trends in architectural development. 11. Czech architecture in the context of current developments. Summary and comparison of the overall development.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course (second part) in which students will learn about the development of architecture from the end of the 1940s to the present day. In the given issue, not only the practical development of the discipline will be monitored, but also the theoretical concepts that were born from the dynamics of social development after the Second World War, connected not only with the trauma of this conflict, but also with subsequent population explosion and technological development in many areas of human life. The course is aimed at, among others on understanding the transformation of the role of architecture and urban planning concepts, the so-called second or late modernity, postmodernity and current trends in the search for a concept of the relationship between architecture and public space.
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
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