Subject 'Architectural Design II - Public Building'

Year:   2015/2016    2016/2017    2017/2018    2018/2019    2019/2020    

The course project is designing of a small public building for the chosen site. It is supported by a series of short lectures of architectural theories and practical exercises.

Aim is to provide the students knowledge and skills for architectural design and planning.

student
- knows how to create architectural objects according to aesthetic and technical requirements;
- has the necessary knowledge of urban design and planning and essential skills for planning process;
- understands the social role of the profession and ethics of architect;
- is able to find a solution, depending on the location, to an architectural task;
- is able to analyse given tasks and create an aesthetic and functional spacial entity.

Lectures, exercises in the classes, indivisual as well as group assignments

Base texts of architectural theories:
1. Vitruvius. „De Architectura Libri Decem”
2. Leon Battista Alberti „De Re Aedificatoria Libri Decem”
3. Andrea Palladio „Quattro Libri Dell`Architettura”
4. Viollet –le –Duc „Entretiens sur L´Architecture”
5. John Ruskin „ The Seven Lamps of Architecture”
6. Adolf Loos „Ornament und Verbrechen”
7. Frank Lloyd Wright „ The Future of Architecture”
8. Walter Gropius „The New Architecture of the Bauhaus”
9. Le Corbusier „Vers Une Arcitecture”
10. Philip Johnson „International Style”
11. Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore „War and Peace in the Global Village”
12. Christian Norberg Schulz „The Meaning in the Western Architecture”
13. Spiro Kostof „The City Shaped. Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History”
14. Vincent Scully „Architecture”, „American Architecture and Urbanism”
15. August Komendant „18 Years with Architect Louis I. Kahn”
16. Charles A.Jencks „The Language of Post-Modern Architecture”
17. Robert Venturi „Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture”
18. Kenneth Frampton „Modern Architecture”
19. Aldo Rossi „The Architecture of the City”
20. Rem Koolhaas „Delirius New York”, „S,M,L,XL”
21. Peter Zumthor „ Thinking Architecture”
22. Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake „Refabricating Architecture”.
23. Greg Lynn „On calculus in architecture”

Evaluated by two reviews during the semester.

2020: FOR*  RA  

2019: FOR*  RA  

2018: FOR*  RA  

2017: FOR*  RA  

2016: FOR*  RA  

2015: RA  

* Optional subject