DU1753 Modern Architecture in the 1st half of the 20th Century: Idea, Space and Form

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jan Galeta, Ph.D. (lecturer)
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 10:00–11:40 K21, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites are not set. However, it is advisable to take the "Introduction to the Study of Architecture" course.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The history of modern architecture is the history of the "contemporaneity": therefore, it is the domain not only of the discipline of art history, but also of those areas into which intervenes architectural criticism, but also architectural theory and the scientific disciplines of engineering.
In the thinking of the "Brno art historical” tradition around its co-founders Václav Richter, it is considered that the emergence of a new artistic direction occurs through a "leap" - a discontinuous relationship to the past, while the history of art must simultaneously reconstruct a continuous chronology of events and diverse circumstances around this leap .
This is apparently also the case with modern architecture. We therefore begin with an inventory of what makes it possible to understand that "leap": i.e. the changing purpose of the theory of modern architecture, the origins (“Ursprung” in the Foucaultian sense) of modern architecture and the sources of modern architecture, we move on to the generation of founders with their central challenges, and then we show the diversity modal styles (including the circumstances appearing in them) in the modern architecture of the first half of the 20th century.
Learning outcomes
We assume that after completing the course, the student will be able to:
- orient yourself in the history of world modern architecture of the first half of the 20th century;
- to realize the difference between the art-historical analysis of older and modern buildings;
- use his/her analytical and interpretive knowledge to research architecture in our regional or local environment.
Syllabus
  • I. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDIO
  • 1. Theory and History (from Emil Kaufmann to Werner Oechslin)
  • 2. Continuity and discontinuity of historical and modern architecture: Idea – Space – Shape
  • II. THE ORIGINS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
  • 3. Historical heritage (autonomous architecture – structure of new technology – rationalism and elemental disposition)
  • 4. Theoretical concepts of the turn of the century (core and stylish cover – architectural space – drawing and imagined architecture)
  • III. SOURCES OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
  • 5. Structural rationalism (house in the garden - relationship between material and construction - reinforced concrete construction - Chicago School)
  • IV. CHALLENGES OF THE FOUNDERS' GENERATION
  • 6. "To destroy the box": Frank Lloyd Wright
  • 7. "To dissolve the ground plan in space": Adolf Loos
  • 8. "To produce an emotional effect": expressionism in architecture
  • V. THE FIVE PILLARS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
  • 9. Between rationalism and biomorphic architecture: interwar Germany
  • 10. Constructivism and De Stijl: Russia and Holland
  • 11. Functionalism and International style
  • 12. Uniqueness of form: sculptural architecture
  • VI. CLASSICS OF THE SPATIAL CONTINUUM
  • 13. Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
  • 14. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • 15. Alvaro Aalto - Bohuslav Fuchs
Literature
    required literature
  • FRAMPTON, Kenneth. Moderní architektura : kritické dějiny. Translated by Pavel Halík - Petr Kratochvíl. Vydání druhé, doplněné. Praha: Academia, 2022, 717 stran. ISBN 9788020033710. info
  • GÖSSEL, Peter and Gabriele LEUTHÄUSER. Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Köln: Benedikt Taschen, 1990, 431 s. ISBN 3822802654. info
    recommended literature
  • PAHL, Jürgen. Architekturtheorie des 20. Jahrhunderts : Zeit-Räume. München: Prestel, 1999, 334 s. ISBN 379132019X. 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
    not specified
  • GÖSSEL, Peter and Gabriele LEUTHÄUSER. Architektura 20. století. Translated by Blanka Pscheidtová - Petr Turecký. Vyd. 1. Praha: Slovart, 2003, 447 s. ISBN 3822825689. info
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
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