DU1369m The exercises course: The "pratica in the early modern architecture

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc. (seminar tutor)
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
Thu 15:50–17:25 K33
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
Course objectives
Aim of the course will be mainly practical acquaintance with the various manifestations of ways of architectural thinking and acting in the early modern period ( 16th-18th centuries). The students will work with the analysis of the project, with construction plans and with basic craft practices. They will learn about the information systems dealing with these problems (see the project Wissensgeschichte der Architektur - Epistemic History of Architecture (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma). Similarly, we focus on issues: How were buildings planned? Which knowledge about materials and construction issues and what kind of logistical skills were necessary for their realization? And what written and pictorial media were used to transfer such knowledge to the building process?
Syllabus
  • 1. Sapere and pratica
  • 2. The emergence of the profession of an Architect
  • 3. Model design in the early modern period - Leon Battista Alberti
  • 4. Model design in the early modern period - Michelangelo
  • 5. Concepts : Idea (an imaginary project) - The material idea (wooden model) - schema (basic figure , the outline of the situation) - Delineatio (linear drawing showing functions) - Ichnographia , Orthographia , Intersectio (plan , draft, cut ) - Orophegraphia , Scaenographia
  • 6. Vitruvian architectural „ideas“ and their interpretation of the early modern period
  • 7. An ideal project
  • 8. Tectonics and stereotomy
  • 9. Methods of drawing plans in Baroque
  • 10. The architectural composition
  • 11. Wooden structures and ways of dating
  • 12. Plaster and masonry
Literature
  • Pérouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie. Architecture: Principes d´analyse scientifique. 4. vyd. Paris 2002. 622 s.
  • Italian renaissance architecture : from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo. Edited by Henry A. Millon. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994, 454 s. ISBN 0500279217. info
  • MAURER, Golo. Michelangelo - die Architekturzeichnungen : Entwurfsprozeß und Planungspraxis. 1. Aufl. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2004, 244 s. ISBN 3795416450. info
  • ŠKABRADA, Jiří. Konstrukce historických staveb. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2003, 395 s. ISBN 8072035487. info
  • KROUPA, Jiří. Umělci, objednavatelé a styl. Studie z dějin umění. (The Artists, the Patrons and the Style. Studies on history of art.). První. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2006, 398 pp. Dějiny a teorie umění. ISBN 80-7364-036-8. info
Teaching methods
Exercises course, group projects and presentations by professionals in the sectors.
Assessment methods
Granting credit for giving a paper.
Language of instruction
Czech
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