Course detail
Contemporary Architecture
FAST-AG01Acad. year: 2014/2015
Source information about the contemporary architectonic scene, main streams and leading personalities determining the contemporary architecture. At the very beginning of study it serves as initial knowledge applied in a student’s studio work in the following semester.
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2. Roots of the contemporary architecture
3. High-tech architecture (R. Rogers, N. Foster, N. Grimshaw and others)
4. Deconstructivism (P. Eisenmann, B.Tschumi, Z.Hadid and others)
5. Post-Modernism (R. Venturi, R. Bofill, J. Stirling and others)
6. European, American and Asian Regionalism
7. Historism and monument renewal
8. Creative individualism (F. Gehry, P. Zumthor, R. Koolhaas and others)
9. Contemporary architecture in Switzerland, Germany and Austria
10. Contemporary architecture in the Netherlands and Belgium
11. Contemporary architecture in Italy, Spain and Portugal
12. Contemporary architecture in the Far East
13. Czech architecture after 1989, Brno scene after 1989
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Basic literature
Collective: The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. Phaidon, 2008. 978-0714848747. (EN)
Kenneth Frampton: Moderní architektura: kritické dějiny. Academia, 2004. 9788020012616. (CS)
Krier, L.: Architektura - volba nebo osud. Academia Praha, 2001. 8020000127. (CS)
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2. Roots of the contemporary architecture
3. High-tech architecture (R. Rogers, N. Foster, N. Grimshaw and others)
4. Deconstructivism (P. Eisenmann, B.Tschumi, Z.Hadid and others)
5. Post-Modernism (R. Venturi, R. Bofill, J. Stirling and others)
6. European, American and Asian Regionalism
7. Historism and monument renewal
8. Creative individualism (F. Gehry, P. Zumthor, R. Koolhaas and others)
9. Contemporary architecture in Switzerland, Germany and Austria
10. Contemporary architecture in the Netherlands and Belgium
11. Contemporary architecture in Italy, Spain and Portugal
12. Contemporary architecture in the Far East
13. Czech architecture after 1989, Brno scene after 1989