Course detail
Renovation and Restoration of Historic Buildings
FA-ORPAcad. year: 2011/2012
The lectures and tutorials are focused on the legislature concerning the protection of monuments, cultural heritage and its changes in historic style periods, and on the review of some technical means of building technology. The aim is to make the students acquainted with the methods of protection of monuments, to provide them with the knowledge needed for architectural design in historical environment, to teach them the ways of preserving, restoring and finding new use of cultural monuments. These knowledge and skills are necessary for an architect, with view to the high percentage of building activities implemented in historical environment, and the increasing emphasis on its protection and preservation.
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Number of ECTS credits
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Prerequisites
(vault, support and load, wall, skeleton), traditional building materials, and the basic structures of building construction (foundation, roofs, floors, openings, surface treatment).
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
the evaluation of seminar assignment (max. 15 points).
Course curriculum
2 Organisation and classification of monuments. Monument protection legislation.
3 International institutions, documents and forms of cultural heritage protection.
4 Characteristics of architectural and urban heritage - kinds of heritage.
5 Transformation of works of architecture in historic style periods - castles,
chateaus,church buildings.
6 Transformation of works of architecture in historic style periods - palaces, town
houses, urban context.
7 Contemporary care of monuments (conservation, repair, renewal, restitution, replica,
relocation, conversion).
8 Protection of historic settlements.
9 City of the 19th century, industrial heritage - potential conservation methods.
10 City of the 1st half of the 20th century, its architecture.
11 Contemporary architecture in historic environment - genius loci, environmental
autenticity, new building, detail.
12 Historic structures
13 Building substance of a monument, its failures,contemporary technologies and
structures.
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Required is 50 % attendance of tutorials and solo field work.
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Benešová M.- Česká architektura v proměnách dvou století, Praha 1985 (CS)
Blažíček O. J.- Slovník památkové péče, Praha 1962 (CS)
Dostál O., Hrůza J.- Česká historická města, Praha 1978 (CS)
Dvořák M.- Katechismus der Denkmalpflege, Wien 1916 (DE)
Kos J.-Vady, povrchy, údržba a změny staveb, Brno 1980 (CS)
Kříž M.- Rekonstrukce a ochrana památek I.a II., Brno 1989 (CS)
Menclová D.- České hrady I. a II., Praha 1972 (CS)
Recommended reading
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