FF:DU1226 Modern Architecture - Course Information
DU1226 History of Modern Architecture
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. - Timetable
- Tue 19:10–20:45 K31
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- History of Arts (programme FF, B-HS)
- History of Arts (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
- History of Arts (programme FF, M-HS)
- History of Arts (programme FF, M-OT)
- Course objectives
- Survey of architecture from 1890s to 1950s
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to identify and discuss within their historical framework: major architectural movements; important buildings; and major architects. - Syllabus
- Breaking with the Past, Beholden to the Past: Nineteenth-Century Roots of a Twentieth-Century Architecture
- The Arts and Crafts Movement, the Art Nouveau, the Chicago school
- The Deutscher Werkbund, Adolf Loos, and the Problems of Ornament and Style in the 20th Century
- New Movements: Futurism, Cubism, De Stijl, and Constructivism
- Le Corbusier, Functionalism, The International Style
- American architekture after World War II.
- Literature
- HOLLINGSWORTH, Mary. Architektura 20. století. Edited by Danica Voodová, Translated by Helena Nebelová - Hana Stašková. Bratislava: Columbus, 1993, 189 s. ISBN 807136035X. info
- HITCHCOCK, Henry-Russell. Architecture : nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 4th ed., bibliography rev. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, 696 s. ISBN 0300053207. info
- GÖSSEL, Peter and Gabriele LEUTHÄUSER. Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Köln: Benedikt Taschen, 1990, 431 s. ISBN 3822802654. info
- ADLEROVÁ, Alena. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění : 1890/1938. 4. 1. Edited by Vojtěch Lahoda. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1998, 393 s. : i. ISBN 80-200-0587-01. info
- ADLEROVÁ, Alena. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Edited by Vojtěch Lahoda. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1998, 478 s. ISBN 8020006303. info
- Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Edited by Rostislav Švácha - Marie Platovská. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2005, 525 s. ISBN 8020013903. info
- ŠVÁCHA, Rostislav. Od moderny k funkcionalismu : proměny pražské architektury první poloviny dvacátého století. Photo by Jan Malý. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon - nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1985, 573 s. info
- ŠVÁCHA, Rostislav. Lomené, hranaté & obloukové tvary : česká kubistická architektura 1911-1923. Photo by Jan Malý. Praha: Gallery, 2000, 215 s. ISBN 808601035X. info
- O nové Brno :brněnská architektura, 1919-1939 : katalog. Edited by Zdeněk Kudělka - Jindřich Chatrný. Brno: Muzeum města Brna, 2000, 444 s. ISBN 80-901969-6-9. info
- KARASOVÁ, Daniela. Jan Kotěra, 1871-1923 :the founder of modern Czech architecture. Prague: Municipal House, 2001, 411 s. ISBN 80-86217-47-7. info
- VYBÍRAL, Jindřich. Mladí mistři : architekti ze školy Otto Wagnera na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2002, 277 s. ISBN 807203474X. info
- MORAVÁNSZKY, Ákos. Competing visions : aesthetic invention and social imagination in Central European architecture, 1867-1918. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998, xv, 508. ISBN 0262133342. info
- NEUMEYER, Fritz and Jasper CEPL. Quellentexte zur Architekturtheorie. München: Prestel, 2002, 607 s. ISBN 3791326023. info
- PAHL, Jürgen. Architekturtheorie des 20. Jahrhunderts : Zeit-Räume. München: Prestel, 1999, 334 s. ISBN 379132019X. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- Lectures, examination - written test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2011, recent)
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