Course detail
History of Building Trades
FAST-AG29Acad. year: 2014/2015
Implementation of development building trades from oldest time to end 19.century, clarifying conventional building processes with accent on the historic skilled handwork into detail.
Knowledges are using one the one hand in area restoration of monuments, one the one hand for understanding contemporary technologies and possibility solution of design details from point of view architectural and building construction.
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Course curriculum
antiquity to close 19.century.
2. Stonework - development method preparation of stone, masonry
pillars, vaults.
3. Stonework - shields, oriels, balconies and development trade
rendering.
4. Stonework - stone facing, cornices, adjustments of details windows
and doors.
5. Bricklaying - development of trade, brickwork, walling bedding and
jointing, vaults, cornices, stairs.
6. Bricklaying - modify external and inside of surface, brick
pavings, plasters, stuke, patent stone.
7. Carpentry - development of trade, curb and timber frameworks,
historic roof trusses.
8. Carpentry - walls, ceilings, roofings.
9. Carpentry - development of trade of doors and gates.
10.Joinery - windows, sho-windows.
11.Tinsmith´s workshop and roofer´s workshop - development of trades
roofings, raceways by channels and aris gutters.
12.Smithery - development of trade connections, windows, daylights,
chimneys, rails, grates.
13.Excursion.
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
KOHOUT J., TOBEK A.: Tesařství. Grada Praha, 1996. (CS)
KOHOUT J., TOBEK A.:: Zednictví. Grada Praha, 1998. (CS)
KOUŘIL J., BUBEN F.: Truhlářství. Grada Praha, 2003. (CS)
PLUMBRIDGE A., MEULENKAMP W.: Ziegeln in der Architektur. DVA Stuttgart, 1996. (DE)
ŘÍHÁK J.M.: Pokrývačství. Grada Praha, 2003. (CS)
TITSCHER F.: Stavitelství. Grada Praha, 2002. (CS)
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antiquity to close 19.century.
2. Stonework - development method preparation of stone, masonry
pillars, vaults.
3. Stonework - shields, oriels, balconies and development trade
rendering.
4. Stonework - stone facing, cornices, adjustments of details windows
and doors.
5. Bricklaying - development of trade, brickwork, walling bedding and
jointing, vaults, cornices, stairs.
6. Bricklaying - modify external and inside of surface, brick
pavings, plasters, stuke, patent stone.
7. Carpentry - development of trade, curb and timber frameworks,
historic roof trusses.
8. Carpentry - walls, ceilings, roofings.
9. Carpentry - development of trade of doors and gates.
10.Joinery - windows, sho-windows.
11.Tinsmith´s workshop and roofer´s workshop - development of trades
roofings, raceways by channels and aris gutters.
12.Smithery - development of trade connections, windows, daylights,
chimneys, rails, grates.
13.Excursion.