DU2474a Seminar: Text and architecture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Iva Adámková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Timetable
Tue 9:10–10:45 K32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the seminar is an introducing based on authentic medieval sources. The various headings (organization structure, design and structural analysis , the symbolism of religious buildings and building parts, cornerstones in the liturgy and consecration of the church), students will be led through interpretation and analysis of texts of contemporaries (i.e. builders or through historical evidence) to consideration upon the questions of the practical side of engineering (civil works organization and construction of building elements), or towards the symbolic and theological grasp of architecture (interpretation of building elements in terms of medieval exegesis). The aim of the seminar is based on reading of contemporary texts.
Syllabus
  • 1. The organization of the building and its construction - construction foreman and manager (education - artes liberales , artes mechanicae ) - craftsmen on site (their activities) - transport of materials for construction - spolia: definition, the question of their re-use in construction (Rome, Montecassino , Aachen , Paris , Pisa
  • 2. The design, structural analysis, principles of measurement in the Middle Ages - the principles of measurement in medieval (ancient patterns: Vitruvius , Isidore of Seville , reception Vitruviova work in the Middle Ages ) - the arch and vault systems
  • 3. Parts of the religious symbolism of buildings and building components - facade - columns ( allegorical conception of the building, theological interpretation) - the symbolism of medieval architecture
  • 4. Laying of the foundation stones, consecration of the church liturgy - the sovereign participation in important foundation - the establishment of the exact form of the liturgy and the laying of the cornerstones of the consecration of the church ? - Transfer of titular saints relics into the newly founded buildings
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Literature
  • KIMPEL, Dieter and Robert SUCKALE. Die götische Architektur in Frankreich, 1130-1270. Edited by Albert Hirmer - Irmgard Ernstmeier-Hirmer. München: Hirmer Verlag, 1985, 584 s. ISBN 3-7774-6650-6. info
  • BINDING, Günther. Was ist Gotik? : eine Analyse der gotischen Kirchen in Frankreich, England und Deutschland, 1140-1350. Photo by Uwe Dettmar. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2000, 304 s. : i. ISBN 3-89678-160-X. info
  • SUGER. Spisy o Saint-Denis. Translated by Iva Adámková. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2006, 423 s. ISBN 8072981552. info
  • BINDING, Günther. Baubetrieb im Mittelalter. Edited by Gabriele Annas - Bettina Jost - Anne Schunicht. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 1997, x, 530 s. ISBN 3-89678-066-2. info
  • BINDING, Günther. Meister der Baukunst : Geschichte des Architekten- und Ingenieurberufes. [Darmstadt]: Primus Verlag, 2004, viii, 272. ISBN 3896784978. info
  • BINDING, Günther. Der früh- und hochmittelalterliche Bauherr als sapiens architectus. 2., überarb. und erg. Aufl. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1998, 480 s. ISBN 3-534-14248-9. info
  • BINDING, Günther and Susanne LINSCHEID-BURDICH. Planen und Bauen im frühen und hohen Mittelalter :nach den Schriftquellen bis 1250. Edited by Julia Wippermann. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002, 652 s. ISBN 3-534-15489-4. info
  • B. Reudenbach: Säule und Apostel. Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Architektur und architekturexegetischer Literatur im Mittelalter, in: Frühmittelalterliche Studien XIV, 1980, str. 310-351.
  • W. Jacobsen, Spolien in der karolingischen Architektur, in: J. Poeschke (vyd.), Antike Spolien in der Architektur des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, München 1996, s. 155-178.
Teaching methods
Seminar and the reading of the texts.
Assessment methods
The written paper.
Language of instruction
Czech
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