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Reconstruction and Renovation of Historical Buildings
FAST-NHB053Acad. year: 2020/2021
Cultural monuments and all the older or heritage buildings need to be renovated in a specific way. It is necessary to acquaint with historical building technology and used means creating their construction, architecture and embellishment. The course content is aimed right at this so that students can familiarize with traditional technologies, construction and craft industry. Last but not least they also learn how to deal with employees of conservation institutes.
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2.–3. History of buildings and architectural styles in the Czech Republic.
4. Monument care: development and contemporary legal requirements on the protection of cultural heritage in the Czech Republic; methods of protection and presentation of building monuments.
5. Approaches to conservation and modification of individual building elements and structures of historical buildings and building monuments.
6. Historical building technologies: plasters of historic buildings; gypsum plasters and false vaults; stucco work.
7. Historical building technologies: painting technologies in historical eras; fresco paintings; gilding, patina coating, polychrome.
8. Historical building technologies: sgraffiti; stucco lustro; mosaic; wallpapers.
9. Vaults: fundamental overview, building technologies, faults and repairs.
10. Final lecture and summary; information on the examination.
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