Course detail
Theory and Aesthetics
FAST-AG10Acad. year: 2014/2015
Survey of the genres and methods of theoretical deliberation on architecture. Differentiation of the historically conditioned and the permanent in this deliberation on the example of the significant conceptions of the West from the Antiquity to the 21th century. Selected subjects important at the present time.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Student will know the most important theoretical essays on architecture.
Student will recognize different ways of professional architecural discours.
Student will recognize different ways of laymen architecural discours.
Student will know how to think on architecture critically.
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Course curriculum
2. Architecture from the point of view of an architect and that of a historian and a theorist – a non-architect
3. Architecture in the philosophical systems
4. Classical conceptions – Vitruvius
5. Classical conceptions – Alberti and Palladio
6. Classical conceptions – Semper and Viollet-le-Duc
7. Classical conceptions - Wagner and Sitte, problems of a city
8. Classical conceptions – Le Corbusier and Kahn
9. Function of architecture
10. Style, taste, fashion, architecture and the „lay“ public
11. Tradition and innovation in architecture
12. Architecture and other kinds of arts, design
13. Architect as a co-creator of the environment for (not only) a 21st-century man
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Gehl, J.: Nové městské prostory. Šlapanice, 2002. 9788086517094. (CS)
Kruft, H. - W.: Dejiny teórie architektúry. Bratislava, 1993. [8070950099] (SK)
Mallgrave, Harry Francis: An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present. Wiley, 2011. 9781444395983. (EN)
Sitte, C.: Stavba měst podle uměleckých zásad. Brno, 2012. 9788087318218. (CS)
Vitruvius: Deset knih o architektuře. Praha, 1979. (CS)
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2. Architecture from the point of view of an architect and that of a historian and a theorist – a non-architect
3. Architecture in the philosophical systems
4. Classical conceptions – Vitruvius
5. Classical conceptions – Alberti and Palladio
6. Classical conceptions – Semper and Viollet-le-Duc
7. Classical conceptions - Wagner and Sitte, problems of a city
8. Classical conceptions – Le Corbusier and Kahn
9. Function of architecture
10. Style, taste, fashion, architecture and the „lay“ public
11. Tradition and innovation in architecture
12. Architecture and other kinds of arts, design
13. Architect as a co-creator of the environment for (not only) a 21st-century man
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