DU1415a Modern architecture among utopia, ideal and present time

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 15:50–17:25 K33
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
Lecture on modern architecture provides an overview of the most important realizations of modern architecture and its creators in the 20th century. Emphasis is placed on theoretical ground of this architecture, on architectural work with space, volume and on relation of architectural function to the human environment.
Syllabus
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. How theoretical concept is rising? – from Emil Kaufmann to Werner Oechslin.
  • 2. 'Historical' architecture and its transformation into a modern architectural movements.
  • 3. Idea of an autonomous architecture, Lodolis "retta funzione", new technology = sources and origins of "modern architecture" in the historical heritage.
  • 4. Theoretical sources of modern architecture: Karl Bötticher, Gottfried Semper, Adolf Loos.
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  • II. Modern architecture, the generation of founders
  • 5. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1869 - 1959): "exploding the box".
  • 6. Adolf Loos (1870-1933: "dissolve the plan in interior space".
  • 7. Expressionism in architecture: deformations of architectural form for "developing emotional effect."
  • 8. Five pillars of modern architecture (Jürgen Pahl: Constructivism - Functionalism - Biomorphic architecture - Rationalism - Sculptural architecture).
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  • III. The architecture of the early 20th century
  • 9. Between functionalism of New Objectivity and biomorphic functionalism: Ernst May, Bauhaus, Erich Mendelsohn, Hans Scharoun.
  • 10. Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965): from purism to functionalism.
  • 11. Constructivism and De Stijl.
  • 12. Funkctionalism and / or / international style? - CIAM.
  • 13. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his concepts of "flowing space" and "open space”.
  • 14. Alvar Aalto: from functionalism to the phenomenological architecture.
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  • IV. The postwar architecture
  • 15. A new focus on architectural form: Le Corbusiers last work, Oscar Niemayer (1907-2011), Philip C. Johnson (1906-2005).
  • 16. The end of the tectonics and stereotomy: glass, shell, exposed concrete - the post-war functionalism, "new brutalism" and "Japanese metabolism".
  • 17. From new constructivism to the High Tech - The New York Five, Richard Meier, high tech architecture and architecture of new productivism.
  • 18. Louis I /sadore/ Kahn (1901-1974) and the monumental individualism.
  • 19. Postmodernism: North American (eclectic) and European (rationalist and historicist).
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  • V. Architecture at the turn of the late 20th century and at present (the "second" - "new" modern ")
  • 20. Deconstructivist architecture in the 1980s.
  • 21. The modes of contemporary architecture I. (Jürgen Pahl: High-Tech - Neofunctionalism - New Rationalism - Poetic simplicity (minimalism) - Sculptural architecture - Postmodern architecture - Deconstructivist architecture - Textual architecture - Integral architecture).
  • 22. The modes of contemporary architecture II. (Kenneth Frampton and Juhani Pallasmaa: critical regionalism and phenomenological architecture).
  • 23. The new sensualism and architecture today.
  • 24.The Pritzker Prize for architecture after 2000 (deconstruction, minimalism and the social responsibility of building).
Literature
  • FRAMPTON, Kenneth. Moderní architektura : kritické dějiny. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2004, 457 s. ISBN 8020012613. info
  • GÖSSEL, Peter and Gabriele LEUTHÄUSER. Architektura 20. století. Vyd. 2., přeprac. V Praze: Slovart, 2006, 608 s. ISBN 8072098144. info
  • PAHL, Jürgen. Architekturtheorie des 20. Jahrhunderts : Zeit-Räume. München: Prestel, 1999, 334 s. ISBN 379132019X. info
  • ŠVÁCHA, Rostislav. Od moderny k funkcionalismu : proměny pražské architektury první poloviny dvacátého století. Photo by Jan Malý. Praha: Victoria publishing, 1995, 590 s. ISBN 8085605848. info
Teaching methods
Lecture.
Assessment methods
Oral exam + visual test.
Language of instruction
Czech
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