Course: Between Design and Architecture: chapters from the interior theory and history from the 19th to the 21st century

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Course title Between Design and Architecture: chapters from the interior theory and history from the 19th to the 21st century
Course code KTD/ODMDA
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Frequency of the course Yearly
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory, 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) Historicism - Biedermeier 02) Design Reform - Arts and Crafts 03) Between artistic craft and industry (Wiener Werkstätte, Deutscher Werkbund, Artěl) - Cubism and Expressionism 04) Richard Wagner - Art Nouveau and the principle of gesamtkunstwerk 05) F. L. Wright - Adolf Loos and the antithesis of Art Nouveau 06) National style - decorativism - art deco 07) Avant-garde - Bauhaus - standard and type - Thonet, UP závody, Halabala, Koželka etc. 08) Minimal living, smallest apartment, modern apartment, residential landscape - public interiors? 09) Organic design and new materials 10) Frederick Kiesler - Ladislav Sutnar - exhibitions and exhibition business 11) Late modern - brutalism - synthesis of architecture and art in the interior 12) Experiments of the 60s: spectacle, radical design and pop 13) Anti-design and postmodernism - high-tech and mechanism Seminar: The content of the seminars will be: 1) presentation of selected topics supplementing and deepening the topics of the lectures and/or representing the current scene 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 (3-4 shorter screenings during the semester) 4) excursion and/or visit to the exhibition, permanent exhibitions of UPM, ZČM, NTM, etc. (3-4 events during the semester - Tomáškova villa, Loos interiors, Regional Political School, ČNB Pilsen, Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen - Gallery "13", Moving Station etc.) 5) extraordinary lecture by a visiting expert

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Multimedia supported teaching, Students' portfolio, One-to-One tutorial, Skills demonstration, Students' self-study
  • Contact hours - 39 hours per semester
  • Attendance on a field trip (number of real hours - maximum 8h/day) - 8 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 32 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 25 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
basic knowledge of general history at the level of general secondary education
acquire basic knowledge of the history of art within 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 an understanding of the interior phenomenon in visual arts and architecture (from the era of historicism to the period of anti-design and postmodernism - high-tech and machinism), 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 architecture and interior design and their philosophically pragmatic contexts
Skills
distinguish shape, material and technological characteristics of the development stages of design and architectural solutions, classify reproductions of specific realizations chronologically 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
N/A
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teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Lecture
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
  • Dagmar Koudelková. Jindřich Halabala a Spojené uměleckoprůmyslové závody v Brně. Praha: Grada Publishing. 2018.
  • Dagmar Koudelková. Jiří Pelcl x design / Subjective x Objective. Brno: Era ? vydavatelství. 2006.
  • Daniela Karasová. České secesní a kubistické interiéry v národním a mezinárodním měřítku in: Bulletin Moravské galerie v Brně. Brno: Moravská galerie v Brně a Společnost přátel MG 67. 2016.
  • Daniela Karasová. Dějiny nábytkového umění IV. Praha: Argo, Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum v Praze. 2001.
  • Daniela Kramerová (ed.). Bruselský sen. Československá účast na Světové výstavě Expo 58 v Bruselu a životní styl 1. poloviny 60. let. Praha: Arbor vitae. 2008.
  • Edward Lucie-Smith. Furniture: A Concise History. Londýn: Thames & Hudson. 1987.
  • Iva Knobloch, Jiří Pelcl. Architektura interiér design ? 1989 diskuse 2014. Praha: UMPRUM. 2014.
  • Karasová, Daniela. GDN : geneze designu nábytku. 2012. ISBN 978-80-7101-103-3.
  • Knobloch, Iva,; Vondráček, Radim. Design v českých zemích 1900 - 2000 : instituce moderního designu. Vydání 1. 2016. ISBN 978-80-200-2612-5.
  • Lada Hubatová-Vacková, Rostislav Koryčánek. OCH! ? Olgoj Chorchoj: Logika emoce. Praha: UMPRUM, Moravská galerie. 2016.
  • Štěch Adam. Modern Architecture and Interiors. Mnichov: Prestel. 2020.
  • Věkoslav Pardyl. Interiér. Praha: ČVUT. 1987.


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