Course detail
Introduction to the Traditional Building Handicraft
FAST-BGA031Acad. year: 2025/2026
Implementation of development building trades from oldest time to the present clarifying conventional building processes with accent on the historic skilled handwork into detail.
Knowledge is useful either in area restoration of monuments or for understanding contemporary technologies and possible solutions of design details from point of view both architectural and building constructions.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
2
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Department
Ústav architektury (ARC)
Entry knowledge
Subject uses knowledge acquisition in subjects Building construction and History of architecture and it is preparation for following subjects Traditional building trades and Detail in architecture.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
Subject extendes knowledges acquire in subject Building construction, where is supplement to understanding of historic context and building trades.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. extended knowledge acquired in subject Building construction, where is supplement to understanding of historic context and building trades.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. extended knowledge acquired in subject Building construction, where is supplement to understanding of historic context and building trades.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
Not applicable.
Recommended reading
Not applicable.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPC-APS Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hod., optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Short development of building trades and their position from the very beginning to close 19th century, relation between industrial production and crafts, renewal of building trades in 19th century.
- 2. Craftsmanship, material, instruments and machinery, technologies. Man and environment.
- 3. Wood Science, macro and micro structure of wood, wood defects, hygroscopy and drying of wood, conditions of durability, appropriate application of wood, recognition of sorts of wood.
- 4. Carpentry – material, technology, special branches, construction of structural work of the building.
- 5. Carpentry and joinery – mutual comparison of manufacturing, building joinery works.
- 6. Joinery – technology, cabinetmaking, turners, carvers.
- 7. Bricklaying and stonework – mutual comparison, historical development, material, instruments and tools, bricks and brickmaking.
- 8. Bricklaying and stonework – building constructions and technologies.
- 9. Bricklaying and surface of constructions – plasters, stucco, patent stone, painting, tiling, mosaic.
- 10. Bricklaying and stonework – floor and paving, materials, instruments, technologies.
- 11. Roofs and tinsmith´s workshop – materials, tools, technologies.
- 12. Smithery and metalworking – comparison of the work of smith, locksmith, girdler. Materials, tools, technologies.
- 13. Stove building – fire, oven, fireplace, stove.