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Architecture for Brownfields

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0126/01
Abbreviation ABR
Course title Architecture for Brownfields
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. arch. Aleš Student, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Architecture as one of the tools for dealing with brownfields.
2. Brief overview of city development and landscape redevelopment in prehistory and antiquity.
3. A brief overview of urban development and landscape redevelopment during the Middle Ages and Modern Times.
4. A brief overview of urban development and landscape transformation from the 19th century.
5. A brief overview of the architecture of technical constructions in the period before the Industrial Revolution.
6. Architecture of technical and industrial buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries.
7. Architecture of transport and water structures.
8. Heavy Industry Architecture - Mining and Metallurgy, Engineering, Chemical and Power Industry.
9. Light industry architecture - food, textile and shoe industry.
10. Light industry architecture - paper, glass and furniture industry.
11. Architecture of agricultural buildings.
12. Contemporary architecture in the historical industrial environment, renewal of urban settlements and conversion of industrial and agricultural buildings in the Czech Republic.
13. Contemporary architecture in a historic industrial environment, renewal of urban settlements and conversion of industrial and agricultural buildings in the world.

Literature

DEMCHAK, G.L. Towards a post-industrial architecture: Design and Construction of Houses for the Information Age. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oregon. 2000.
MCGOWAN, F., RADOSEVIC, S., TUNZELMANN, N. Emerging Industrial Architecture in Europe. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2004.
FRAMPTON K. Modern Architecture: A critical History. Thames & Hudson, Londýn 2007.
UNWIN S. Analysing Architecture. Routledge 2009

Advised literature

COOPER T. How to read Industrial Britain. Ebury Press, London 2011
FRAMPTON K. The Evolution of 20th-Century Architecture: A SynopticAccount.Springer, New York, 2006.
RAIZMAN D. History of Modern Design. Laurence King Publishing 2010.
BRADLEY, B. H. The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.