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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. arch. Alois Nový, CSc.

Department

Ústav architektury (ARC)

Entry knowledge

The subject connects with the preceding lectures on contemporary architecture and history of architecture, particularly history of the 20th-century architecture.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

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.
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.

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 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. arch. Alois Nový, CSc.

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

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. arch. Alois Nový, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 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