Course: Open Course - Czech architecture 2

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Course title Open Course - Czech architecture 2
Course code KDA/OK2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Nábělek Kamil, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
This one-term course concluded with the grant of a credit changes according to currect circumstances, either according to the focus of the studios' works or according to the guest teachers available. The contents are not repeated; at least one course is offered in each term.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Observation, Demonstration
  • Class attendance - 28 hours per semester
  • Preparation for credit - 5 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course builds on the previous semesters and again its specific content varies according to the current situation. The course encourages students to discuss contemporary art and architecture, often in situ with architects or artists over specific works. Emphasis is placed on the student getting to know the works from direct experience. Outline of topics: 1. The relationship between word and image. Natural characters and conventional characters 2. The relationship between the sensory grasp of the work and its interpretation 3. Description of the work, critique of the work, interpretation of the work 4. Is there an identity for the works? 5. Author's intention and work's intention 6. Works of art as a critique or affirmation of other works of art 7. Critique of architecture, design and applied works of art - the question of utility value 8. Postmodern as a loss of criteria? 9. The problem of authenticity 10. The relationship between aesthetics and ethics in artistic creation 11. Political and moral points of view of creation 12. Questions of ancestral collective identity. Politicization of social and cultural relations and values
To grasp knowledge of actual problematics of theory and praxis in architecture.
Prerequisites
Unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Presentation of artistic and creative activities

Attendance to lessons as required by the pedagogue.
Recommended literature
  • kolektiv autorů. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění, sv. IV.-VI. (příslušné kapitoly o architektuře. Praha, 2007.
  • Kratochvíl,P.: (ed). Dějiny zemí Koruny české- tematická řada: Architektura. Praha, 2009.
  • Lukeš, Z.:. Praha moderní 1. díl Velký průvodce po architektuře let 1900 - 1950. Paseka, 2012.
  • Lukeš, Z.:. Praha moderní 2. díl Velký průvodce po architektuře let 1900 - 1950. Paseka, 2013.
  • Švácha,R.:. Od moderny k funkcionalismu. Praha, 1995.


Study plans that include the course
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