Course detail
Architecture of the 20th century
FaVU-ACHE20Acad. year: 2023/2024
The series of lectures introduces students to the historiography of the 20th century architecture, explaining the basic theoretical and methodological issues. The lectures start with the basic modernist architectural concepts from the 18th to the 19th centuries, without which one cannot understand the period in question. It takes into account the political-economic and cultural character of the 19th century, which is defined by industrialization, rapid urbanization and the general transformation of social organization and its needs. An important development trend is also the constitution of the original architectural styles legitimizing the autonomy of the emerging nation states. The transformation of the ideological climate, along with the economic and technological development after World War One, influenced the transformation of demands concerning the form and function of architecture, urban design and regional planning. The course is focused on introducing the avant-garde movements in their specific cultural, national and copyright modifications. Typical world trends are compared with the Czech local development, while taking their specifications into consideration. The lecture is also focused on centralization and etatization manifestations of totalitarian regimes in the war and the postwar periods. Special attention is also paid to the application of the socialist-realist canon in the Czech architecture practiced by the former leaders of the avant-garde from the period between the World Wars. The lectures also deal with the institutional history of the field.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Lecures are optional.
Aims
Students will be able to define the basic concepts related to architecture, urbanism and regional planning in the first half of the 20th century within a wider socio-cultural and political context. Also, they will be able to identify the basic style trends and key projects of architecture and urbanism of the period in question and to put in relations the key theoretical concepts from art and the events in the field of architecture.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BIT Bachelor's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme BIT Bachelor's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's
branch BIT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme VUM_B Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme VUB Bachelor's
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-D , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
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Syllabus
2. The origin of modern architecture in the historic context (the revolutionary architecture, Arts and Crafts, the theory of Garden City, the Chicago School)
3. The birth of metropolis. Otto Wagner and his school
4. Modern architecture and urbanism of the 19th century
5. Expressionism in European architecture and its Czech derivation
6. 'National Style ": searching cultural identity of the newly founded Czechoslovakia
7. The utopian architectural concepts of the avant-garde between the World Wars
8. Bauhaus. The centers of the European avant-garde and their influence on the Czech architecture
9. American architecture and its reflection in the Czech architecture
10. Russian constructivism and its impact on the Czech architecture
11. Purism and functionalism
12. Italian and German architecture in the service of totalitarian regimes
13. Socialist realism and Czech architecture; historicism in the architecture of the 20th century