SUS_220 Searching for New Forms of Architecture

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jakub Sochor (lecturer)
PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:40 J22, except Thu 18. 4.
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
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Course objectives
The course focuses on innovative approaches in architecture in the 20th century. It traces the transformations of architecture from Art Nouveau and the early manifestations of Modernism, through the avant-garde currents of the interwar period to the post-war situation, consisting of the revision of interwar Modernism (Brutalism, Socialist Realism). Phenomena related to the issue of housing crises (the development of housing estates) and partial multidisciplinary specifics of architecture, which represent, for example, manifestations of nautical style metaphorics, will also be monitored.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to:
- be oriented in the architecture of the 20th century;
- specify the different forms of modernist tendencies;
- understand the theoretical writings of key figures in 20th century architecture.
Syllabus
  • 1. Architectural Art Nouveau and its consequences; rationalization, new forms of ornament;
  • 2. Context of architectural expressionism; rondocubism; art deco;
  • 3. Purist turn - Henrik Petrus Berlage, Louis Sullivan, Adolf Loos;
  • 4. For a new architecture - Le Corbusier; Bauhaus, functionalism;
  • 5. Post-war revision of functionalism; rehabilitation of the classical architectural canon; brutalism, socialist realism;
  • 6. Postmodern approaches to  architecture; revival of historicism, recontextualization of historicizing components;
  • 7. Organic architecture;
  • 8. Parametrism in  architecture.
Literature
  • Česká republika - moderní architektura. Edited by Michal Kohout - Rostislav Švácha. 1. vyd. Praha: Zlatý řez, 2014, 522 s. ISBN 9788090382602. info
  • FRAMPTON, Kenneth. A genealogy of modern architecture : comparative critical analysis of build form. Edited by Ashley Simone. Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2016, 303 stran. ISBN 9783037783696. info
  • FRAMPTON, Kenneth. Moderní architektura : kritické dějiny. Translated by Pavel Halík - Petr Kratochvíl. Vydání druhé, doplněné. Praha: Academia, 2022, 717 stran. ISBN 9788020033710. info
  • JENCKS, Charles. Critical modernism : where is post-modernism going? Chichester: John Wiley, 2007, 240 s. ISBN 9780470030110. info
  • SEDLÁK, Jan. In the name of modernism :20th century architecture in Brno. Photo by Libor Teplý. Vyd. 1. Brno: Fotep, 2004, 122 s. ISBN 8090292194. info
  • ŠLAPETA, Vladimír, František MUSIL and Václav JANDÁČEK. Funkcionalismus na Moravě. Brno: EXPO DATA, 2003, 218, 11. ISBN 807293077X. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, field trip.
Assessment methods
Colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
Teacher's information
Course title in English: Searching for New Forms of Architecture.
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