Course: Thinking about indoor and outdoor spaces 1

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Course title Thinking about indoor and outdoor spaces 1
Course code KTD/BPP2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Frequency of the course Yearly
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Klíma Petr, Mgr. Ing. arch.
Course content
Lectures: 01) Utopia 02) Moral revival and turns to the past - romanticism, orientalism, historicism, postmodernism 03) The power of reason - Descartes, Taylorism, scientific functionalism 04) Industrial aspects of design and architecture - from the industrial revolution and the World Exhibitions in London and Paris to high-tech 05) Housing estate (and what to do next?) 06) Suburbia: from garden cities to slums 07) Public space 08) Reconstruction, conversion, historic preservation 09) Landscape 10) Cyberspace and the architecture of the information age 11) Art in architecture (and public space), architecture in art 12) Lecture by a visiting expert according to the current situation 13) Excursion Seminar: The content of the seminars will be: 1) presentation of selected topics supplementing and deepening the topics of the lectures and subsequent discussion (each student will present one topic/personality/work during the semester) 2) discussion of topics from assigned texts (4 texts during the semester) 3) discussion of topics from screenings and documents (4 shorter screenings during the semester)

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
  • Attendance on a field trip (number of real hours - maximum 8h/day) - 8 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 52 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 30 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 40 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Basic knowledge of general history at the level of general secondary education.
acquire basic knowledge about the phenomenon of space across the studied fields, on a basic level, compare and analyze different artistic expressions from the aesthetic, semiotic and technical point of view, specify basic knowledge from supporting artistic disciplines, describe the main visual and stylistic canons within the development of visual and applied arts
Skills
work systematically in relation to seminar work or own learning, show an interest in own theoretical learning in relation to issues that can be used in one's own practice, master the basic means of expression related to spatial expression, work independently and actively and flexibly respond to the teacher's evaluative comments
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
prerequisites for the emergence of the understanding of the phenomenon of space in visual arts and architecture (from ancient Rome to the present day), about the main personalities of the field and an approach to their context and style of creation, interpretation of the role of the creator of space and simple relationships in the process of developing a new work or style, examples of the historical development of the phenomenon of space and its philosophically pragmatic connotations
Skills
distinguish shape, material and technological characteristics of the development stages of the phenomenon of space and spatial expression, chronologically classify reproductions of specific spatial realizations according to shape, or also the technical solution and the material used, assign to individual periods or to the creative spheres of the disciplines that most and most beneficially influenced them (historical context), evaluate the influence of technical progress on the development of understanding of the given phenomenon
Competences
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teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Field trip
Skills
Skills demonstration
Self-study of literature
Discussion
Competences
Discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Oral exam
Written exam
Skills
Seminar work
Competences
Combined exam
Recommended literature
  • Jana Tichá. Architektura a krajina. Praha: Zlatý řez. 2017.
  • Jana Tichá. Architektura v informačním věku. Praha: Zlatý řez. 2013.
  • Jiří Sádlo. Krajina! Průchod okolím v příkladech. Praha: Kodudek. 2019.
  • Jiří Tourek. Myslet architekturu: Pozdní myšlení Petera Eisenmana a jeho kritická teorie architektury. Praha: Zlatý řez. 2019.
  • Juhani Pallasmaa. Myslící ruka. Zlín: Archa. 2012.
  • Juhani Pallasmaa. Oči kůže. Zlín: Archa. 2012.
  • Kenneth Frampton. Moderní architektura. Kritické dějiny. Praha: Academia. 2022.
  • Kratochvíl, Petr. Architektura a veřejný prostor : texty o moderní a současné architektuře IV. Vydání první. 2012. ISBN 978-80-903826-4-0.
  • Lucie Skřivánková, Rostislav Švácha, Eva Novotná, Karolina Jirkalová (eds.). Paneláci 1: Padesát sídlišť v českých zemích. Praha: UPM. 2017.
  • Lucie Skřivánková, Rostislav Švácha, Martina Koukalová, Eva Novotná (eds.). Paneláci 2: Historie sídlišť v českých zemích 1945?1989. Praha: UPM. 2017.
  • Mirko Baum. Ulice na konci světa. Praha: AVU, Kant. 2017.
  • Pavla Melková. Prožívat architekturu. Řevnice: Arbor vitae. 2013.
  • Radan Haluzík (ed.) a kol. Město naruby. Vágní terén, vnitřní periferie a místa mezi místy. Praha: Academia. 2020.
  • Rem Koolhaas. Texty. Praha: Zlatý řez. 2014.
  • Rezek, Petr. Architektonika a protoarchitektura. 1. vyd. Praha : Ztichlá klika, 2009. ISBN 978-80-903898-3-0.
  • Rostislav Švácha, Milena Sršňová, Jana Tichá (edd.). Euroamerické architektonické myšlení 1936?2011. Praha: Zlatý řez. 2018.
  • Václav Cílek. Krajiny vnitřní a vnější. Praha: Dokořán. 2007.


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