Course detail

Architectural Design Studio 4

FAST-BGA032Acad. year: 2025/2026

The Architectonic Design Studio is the most essential means of teaching architecture. The tuition is based on acquiring knowledge and skills by means of direct experience with architectonic design proceeding step by step from elementary subjects to complicated and sophistically operated complexes of buildings. Methodology lies in passing the tutor´s experience onto a student through a dialogue over an unfinished work. It develops creative thinking and professional habits indispensable to practising an artistic and technical job. The student may take his/her own choice of both kind of design development document and a teacher.
The Monuments Restoration Studio is focused on the restoration of the preserved historical material substance and the architectural and architectural intervention in accordance with the current tendencies of the monument care. The studio is attended by all students.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

8

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. arch. Adam Guzdek, Ph.D.

Department

Ústav architektury (ARC)

Entry knowledge

The Architectonic Design Studio makes use of the knowledge acquired in the previous typological disciplines that is an indispensable condition of being enrolled for an appropriate subject. However, the completion of this subject need not necessarily follow immediately the completion of the content-related typology.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Application of the theoretical knowledge, skills in the restoration and renewal of monuments design and graphic presentation of the three-dimensional reality.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. application of the theoretical knowledge, skills in the restoration and renewal of monuments design and graphic presentation of the three-dimensional reality.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Literatura a periodika vztahující se k tématu ateliérové tvorby.
Příslušné normy a předpisy.

Recommended reading

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HOLEČEK, Josef a kol. Projektování obnovy stavebních památek. 1. vyd. Praha: Národní památkový ústav, ústřední pracoviště, 2008. 114 s. Odborné a metodické publikace; sv. 35. ISBN 978-80-87104-34-7.
NEUFERT, Ernst a NEUFERT, Peter, ed. Navrhování staveb: zásady, normy, předpisy o zařízeních, stavbě, vybavení, nárocích na prostor, prostorových vztazích, rozměrech budov, prostorech, vybavení, přístrojích z hlediska člověka jako měřítka a cíle: příručka pro stavební odborníky, stavebníky, vyučující i studenty. 2. české vyd. Praha: Consultinvest, 2000. 618 s. ISBN 80-901486-6-2.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-APS Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Studio work

104 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. arch. Adam Guzdek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Analysis of the brief
  • 2. Analysis of the building site and historical object survey.
  • 3. Reference examples
  • 4. Basic idea of the design
  • 5. Criticism, evaluation of phase 1
  • 6.–9. Work on the design
  • 10. Criticism, evaluation of phase 2
  • 11.–12. Working out of final project
  • 13. Criticism, final evaluation