Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

The Foundations of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	226-0101/02
Abbreviation	ZSA
Course title	The Foundations of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Architecture
Course coordinator	Ing. arch. Aleš Student, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1st Construction and architecture - the importance and functions, basic construction terminology

2nd Building forms Prehistory and Antiquity (older Stone Age and Bronze Age, non-European region, Egypt)

3rd Construction forms of antiquity (ancient Greece)

4th Construction forms of antiquity (ancient Rome)

5th Samples of selected buildings and summary - antiquity

6th Construction forms of Ages (Christian antiquity, pre-Roman period, Byzantium)

7th Construction forms of the Middle Ages (Romanesque)

8th Construction forms of the Middle Ages (Gothic)

9th Samples of selected buildings and summary - the Middle Ages

10th Building forms Modern (Renaissance)

11th Modern architectural forms (baroque)

12th Modern architectural forms (classicism, romanticism and historicism)

13th Samples of selected buildings and summary - novovověk

14th Introduction to building and construction systems.

E-learning

http://fast10.vsb.cz/archstav

Literature

Francis Ching, Mark Jarzombek, Vikram Prakash, A Global History of Architecture, Wiley, 2006.
Watkin, David (Sep 2005), A History of Western Architecture, Hali Publications, ISBN

Advised literature

Pijoan J.and Roys, Ralph Loveland, and Harshe, Robert B. History of Art. 3 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928

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