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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

History of Architecture and Construction I.

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 226-0214/02
Abbreviation DSaA
Course title History of Architecture and Construction I.
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Architecture
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Marek Sibinský, 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 and romanticism)

13th Building Modern form (historicism)

14th Samples of selected buildings and summary - novovověk

15th Introduction to building and construction systems.

Literature

Raeburn, M. et al.: Architecture of the Western World. London 1980.
Harris, J. - Lever, J.: An Illustrated Glossary of Architecture 850 - 1830. London 1969.

Advised literature

Pevsner, Sir N.: An Outline of European Architecture. Harmondsworth 1973.