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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Architecture and a city. The development of mutual relations and interaction. The ideal cities of Renaissance and the position of architecture in its schemes. Architecture and a city. An industrial metropolis; new typological types of structures; railway transport; liquidation of fortifications; the tentacle-like growth of cities. Engineering. World exhibitions. Architecture and a city. Romantic movements; architectonic neostyles; the new face of an industrial metropolis (Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris; the construction of Ringstrasse in Vienna. The Czech cities: Prague, Brno, Olomouc). The classicist concept of an urban space, ranging from the reconstruction of Rome in late 16th centure to the construction of Washington and Sankt Peterburg. The Roman trident. The French park as the basis of the spatial structure of Paris. The modern classicist concept of cities. Speer's plan of Berlin; the plans of Moscow. The capital city of Brasilia. Theory of cities; Stadtbaukunst; Howard's theory of a garden city; Gariner's theoretical design of a modern industrial city. Otto Wagner, the theory of Grosstadt, the design of a Global Megalopolis. Sitte's aesthetic approach to the creation of city space from an artistic perspective.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Observation, Demonstration
- Class attendance
- 14 hours per semester
- Preparation for credit
- 14 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course acquaints students with theoretical thinking about architecture, its meaning and various forms. They first learn to distinguish different theoretical genres and their functioning in different situations and contexts (manifestos and architects' texts, critiques, academic theory) and leads to an attentive reading, listening, understanding the thoughts of the others and the precise formulation of their own thoughts. This is done through studies of selected theoretical problems that have accompanies the architecture for centuries. The topics of the course change. Teaching emphasizes attentive work with texts, especially in foreign languages, and the ability to connect theoretical and specific issues with specific examples and the students' own work. Overview of topics: 1. Introduction: what and for what is the theory of architecture. 2. Tools of theory - how to read it and how it is formed. Clarification of concepts. Text, argumentation, analysis, interpretation, dialectics, critique, polemics, program, manifesto 3. Complexity and simplicity 4. Strictness and decoration 5. Truthfulness and illusions 6. The tangible and the intangible 7. Function and form 8. Body, corporeality and structure 9. Proportion and composition 10. Structure and context 11. Natural and constructed
Development of reflection ability and theoretical argumentation to individual architectonic works.
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Prerequisites
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Unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Presentation of artistic and creative activities
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Recommended literature
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Argan, G.C. The Renaissance City. London, 1969.
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Ebenezer, H. Zahradní města budoucnosti. Praha, 1924.
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Hrůza, J. Teorie města. Praha, 1965.
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Schorke, C.E. Vídeň na přelomu století. Praha, 2000.
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Sitte, C. Stavba měst podle uměleckých zásad. Praha, 1995.
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Wagner, O. Moderní architektura. Praha, 1910.
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