SUS_221 The dawn of the century and architecture: Art Nouveau and its stylistic forms

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023
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 16. 11.
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 80 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 24/80, only registered: 0/80, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/80
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course is focused on Art Nouveau architecture and its development. The lectures present art nouveau architecture from its roots through expansion to its stylistic transformations, which include both floral, geometric and folklore inspirations. The thematic circuits will be demonstrated during an excursion around Brno's city center, during which the topic discussed will be demonstrated on selected architectural examples.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to:
- analyze Art Nouveau as a complex socio-cultural phenomenon of the turn of the 19th and 20th century;
- to orientate in art nouveau architecture and detect its transformations, including partial stylistic currents;
- understand the key pieces of art nouveau architecture and integrate them into a wider architectural context.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction. Information about the course and its completion. A general outline of the socio-cultural milieu of the turn of the 19th and 20th century and its relationship to architecture.
  • 2. Architectural discourse of the second half of the 19th century. Background of architectural academicism and historicism, urban changes (sanitation, transport, infrastructure), building typology. 3. Prerequisites of art nouveau and its roots (movement for the restoration of arts and crafts, Japonism, socio-cultural changes of the 19th century).
  • 4. Art Nouveau as an architectural phenomenon. Examples of Art Nouveau periodisation. Phenomenology of art nouveau morphology and its approximation on early art nouveau realizations (Belgium, Paris, Vienna).
  • 5. Myth, fairy tale and ideal of homeland. Historically and locally determined architecture of art nouveau folklorism (Jurkovič, Lechner, Witkiewicz).
  • 6. Geometric creative tendencies, brought closer to examples of the work of Viennese protagonists (Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, etc.).
  • 7. The role of visual arts in Art Nouveau architecture.
  • 8. Art Nouveau in the Czech lands.
  • 9. Art Nouveau in Brno. Early examples of reception of art nouveau morphology, influence of Otto Wagner's students, development, personalities.
  • 10. Art Nouveau, and what next? Possibilities of architecture at the end of Art Nouveau (revival of historicism, early examples of modernism, the so-called 1910 style, etc.).
  • 11. Excursion around the center of Brno. Zooming in on the topic discussed on selected architectural examples.
  • 12. Summary.
Literature
  • FAHR-BECKER, Gabriele. Secese. 2., upr. vyd. Praha: Slovart, 2007, 424 s. ISBN 9788072098965. info
  • HITCHCOCK, Henry-Russell. Architecture : nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 4th ed., bibliography rev. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, 696 s. ISBN 0300053207. info
  • KŠICOVÁ, Danuše. Secese : slovo a tvar. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 320 s. ISBN 8021019700. URL info
  • PRAHL, Roman and Lenka BYDŽOVSKÁ. Volné směry : časopis secese a moderny. Praha: Torst, 1993, 191 s. ISBN 8085639149. info
  • SEDLÁK, Jan. Brno secesní. Brno: ERA, 2004, 207 stran. ISBN 8073660105. info
  • VYBÍRAL, Jindřich. Česká architektura na prahu moderní doby : devatenáct esejů o devatenáctém století. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2002, 331 s. ISBN 8072034758. 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
  • WITTLICH, Petr. Česká secese. Vydání 3., pozměněné. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2020, 493 stran. ISBN 9788024644950. info
  • ZATLOUKAL, Pavel. Příběhy z dlouhého století : architektura let 1750-1918 na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Olomouc: Muzeum umění, 2002, 702 s. ISBN 8085227495. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, field trip.
Assessment methods
Colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
Teacher's information
English title of the course: The dawn of the century and architecture: Art Nouveau and its stylistic forms.
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