Course detail

History of Architecture 3

FAST-BGA025Acad. year: 2025/2026

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

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. arch. Adam Guzdek, Ph.D.

Department

Ústav architektury (ARC)

Entry knowledge

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

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

BURCKHARDT, Jacob Christoph. Kultura renesance v Itálii. 1. vyd. Praha: Rybka, 2013. 503 s. ISBN: 978-80-87067-08-6.
KOCH, Wilfried. Evropská architektura. Encyklopedie evropské architektury od antiky po současnost. 3. vyd. Praha: Euromedia Group – Knižní klub, 2012. 552 s. ISBN: 978-80-242-3657-5.
SYROVÝ, Bohuslav. Architektura – svědectví dob: přehled vývoje stavitelství a architektury. 3., dopl. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1987.

Recommended reading

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CASSON, Hugh. Dějiny architektury. Praha: Odeon, 1993. ISBN 80-207-0185-0.
KALNEIN, Wend von. Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0300060133.
KONEČNÝ, Michal (ed.). Na věčnou paměť, pro slávu a vážnost. Renesanční aristokratická sídla v Čechách a na Moravě ve správě Národního památkového ústavu. 1. vyd. Kroměříž: Národní památkový ústav, územní památková správa v Kroměříži, 2017. 668 s. ISBN: 978-80-906899-2-3.
MORRISON, Tessa. Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900. Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy. 1. vyd. London – New York: Routledge, 2016. 262 s. ISBN: 978-1472452658.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-APS Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. arch. Adam Guzdek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Renaissance – cultural and social background, technology, space, set of architectonic elements.
  • 2. Early Renaissance in Italy (Bruneleschi, Alberti, Sangallo sr., etc.).
  • 3. High Renaissance in Italy (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. Baroque in Italy I. (Maderna, Bernini).
  • 9. Baroque in Italy II. (Borromini, Guarini).
  • 10. Baroque of French 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.).