Course detail

History of Architecture 3

FAST-AG023Acad. year: 2023/2024

Survey of the history of the Modern Age ranging from the Italian Renaissance, its evolutionary stages and high representatives, over the transalpine Renaissance, the Renaissance in the Bohemian lands, the Italian Baroque, the French Baroque and the Classicism, the German and Austrian Baroque, the Baroque in Bohemia and Moravia to the greatest personalities working at that time in our territory. The development of the art of construction of the Modern Age in relation to the social and economic background and the stage of technological development.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. arch. Ladislava Foretníková

Entry knowledge

The subject connects with the history of Architecture – the Antiquity and the Middle Ages, partially applying the knowledge of the building construction subjects.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Knowledge of the history of architecture, the Renaissance in Italy, the transalpine Renaissance, the Renaissance in the Bohemian lands, the Italian Baroque, the French Baroque and the Classicism, the Baroque in the Central Europe, the Baroque in the Bohemian lands.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the Renaissance in Italy, the transalpine Renaissance, the Renaissance in the Bohemian lands, the Italian Baroque, the French Baroque and the Classicism, the Baroque in the Central Europe, the Baroque in the Bohemian lands.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-APS (N) Bachelor's

    branch APS , 2. year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. arch. Ladislava Foretníková

Syllabus

1. Renaissance – cultural and social background, technology, space, set of architectonic elements 2. Italy – the Early Renaissance (Bruneleschi, Alberti, Sangallo sr., etc.) 3. Italy - the High Renaissance (Bramante, Rafael, Sangallo jr., Peruzzi, etc.), the Late Renaissance, the Mannerism (Michelangelo, Vignola, Paladio, etc.) 4. Renaissance ouside Italy – France, Spain and Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany 5. Renaissance in Bohemia and Moravia I. 6. Renaissance in Bohemia and Moravia II. 7. Baroque – cultural and social background, technology, space, set of architectonic elements, evolution 8. Italian Baroque I. (Maderna, Bernini) 9. Italian Baroque II. (Borromini, Guarini) 10. French Baroque and Classicism 11. Baroque in Germany and Austria 12. Baroque in Bohemia and Moravia 13. The most outstanding representatives of the Bohemian Baroque (the Dientzenhofers, Kaňka, Santini, etc.)