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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Industrial Architecture

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0826/01
Abbreviation IA
Course title Industrial Architecture
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Mgr. Lucie Augustinková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. A brief overview of the development of the city and reshaping the landscape in different historical periods
2. A brief overview of the application architecture for the technical construction in front of the industrial period (bridges , warehouses , manufacturing facilities )
3. Architecture of 19th century and its application to industrial buildings
4. Architecture of the 20th century and its application to industrial buildings
5. Application Architecture for industrial and technical buildings by typologies, loose fittings
6. Application Architecture - energy and electricity ( hydro, thermal atomic )
7. Application Architecture - gas (gas , water gas tank , deep MAN )
8. Application Architecture - coal mining and mining ( mining towers , hoists , sorting and treatment of coal ) coke
9. Application Architecture - metallurgy and coke (blast furnaces , steel mills , coking plants )
10. Application Architecture - Textile Industry ( factoring system, focused factories , factory production - spinning mills and weaving mills )
11. Application architecture - the food industry (mills , silos, granaries , malt , beer , sugar , distillery )
12. Application Architecture - transport (road - bridges , inns , change-over stations, garages, gas stations , railway - bridges , railway station , draw, waterworks warehouses , airline - airport hangars )
13. Application architecture - Water engineering ( regulation of rivers , waterways, water works system )
14. Contemporary architecture in the historic environment , renewal of urban settlements, conversion of industrial buildings to new uses

Literature

Frampton K.: The Evolution of 20th-Century Architecture: A SynopticAccount.Springer, New York, 2006.
Raizman D.: History of Modern Design. Laurence King Publishing 2010. ISBN: 1856696944 

Advised literature

Gossel P, Leuthauserová G.: Architektura 20. století. Slovart, Praha 2003
Cooper T.: How to read Industrial Britain. Ebury Press, London2011