Course detail
Architecture of Technical Civilization
FAST-BGB044Acad. year: 2025/2026
The optional subject is aimed at the past and the present of architecture inspired by technology and industry; it reflects the rational and romantic fountain-heads of the technicism in architecture, its decisive influence on the birth of the Modern Movement and the late manifestations of its most outstanding protagonists. It sets about anticipating the technology impact on the future of the 21st century architecture.
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Aims
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. grasp of the interaction of the technology and architecture, the Industrial Revolution, the beginnings of the Modern Movement, the interwar Avant-Garde, the present and the future of the technicism in architecture.
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPC-APS Bachelor's 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
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Syllabus
- 1. Introduction and recommended sources of study
- 2. The Industrial Revolution and architecture
- 3. Origins of the Modernism in engineering and industry
- 4. Theoretical fountain-heads of the new aesthetics
- 5. Industrial inspiration of the interwar Avant-Garde – Germany, Soviet Russia
- 6. Industrial inspiration of the interwar Avant-Garde – France, Czechoslovakia
- 7. Postwar architecture of the splitted-up world
- 8. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – Archigram, J.Stirling
- 9. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – R.Rogers, N.Foster
- 10. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – M.Hopkins, N.Grimshaw
- 11. Technicism in the late 20th-century architecture – E.Jiřičná, J.Kaplický
- 12. Technicism in architecture in the Czech lands
- 13. Future of the technicism in architecture
Exercise
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- 1. Determination of the theme of the seminar essay
- 2.-10. Consultations
- 11.-12. Presentation of the essay in the seminar group
- 13. Final evaluation