| Course title | Urban Construction 1 |
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| Course code | KUR/SM1 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 2 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | Course does not contain work placement |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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1. definition of the basic framework of concepts I - introduction (literature, other sources) - categories (space, time, place, movement/change - way, world/light) - geometry and some special theories usable for forming the structures and functions of a city (and for their interpretation) 2. definition of the basic framework of concepts II - the Nature and ladscape/territory/municipality/region (micro-region and macro-region)/local-regional-global - man (archetype/basic form)/language-voice/sound/property/ownership-economics/management/community 3. definition of the basic framework of concepts III - the artificial world of man - architecture/construction, city, technology, paths - the basic typology of natural landscape, socially economic and urban-technical structures and functions - composition-related (matter-related and material), layout-related and operational principles of the structures of functions and morpho-genesis of local-regional-global structures and functions and their mutual influence and links (the concentric - linear - dissipative / single-axis - multiple-axis/monocentric - polycentric/orthogonal - non-orthogonal / enclosed - half-enclosed - open structure of development). 4. history of inhabitation (construction of cities) I - primeval and ancient forms of settlements and urban construction - prehistory (the original African, American, Asian and Australian cultures and connection with inhabitation - inspiration for the present times) - the initial situations/the birth of a city (the basic civilisation categories of the formation of a stable structure of settlement: Near East/Europe/India/China-Japan-Korea/pre-Columbian America. 5. history of inhabitation (construction of cities) II - the birth of European urban inhabitation and art of building; Euro-Asian forms of stable structure of settlement: Greece, Etruria and Rome, the cities of early Christianity and Islam 6. history of inhabitation (construction of cities) III - the forms of settlement and urban building indstury of the European Middle Ages and the early modern period - the first period of flourishment of cities - city colonisation (Romanic cities / early-middle-late Gothic cities / city colonisation) - the cities of the emerging modern era [Renaissance cities (South-European, Central European, North European and East European cities) / Baroque cities (European and non-European cities) / the first global manifestations of city colonisation] 7. history of inhabitaiton (construction of cities) IV - the forms of settlement and urban building industry of the modern era from the late 18th century to the mid-19th century - pre-industrial cities 8. history of inhabitation (construction of cities) V - the forms of settlement and urban building industry of the modern era from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century - industrial cities 9. history of ihnabitation (construction of cities) VI - the forms of settlement and urban building industry of the modern era from the mid-20th century to the end of the 20th century - post-industrial cities / the beginning of the information era / the emergence of megacity 10. megacity I: natural landscape-related / social / urban-technical specifications / morphogenesis (the formation of local and regional structures and functions) / development from local to regional and global / metamorphoses of a city on its way to megacity and its regional and lokal links (the effect of local and regional conditions on the global tendencies and the structural and functional morphogenesis of the city in response to the conditions) 11. megacity II: natural landscape-related / social / urban-technical specifications / morphogenesis (the formation of local and regional structures and functions) / development from local to regional and global / metamorphoses of a city in the global era and their manifestations at regional and l
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Demonstration
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| Learning outcomes |
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The course Urban Construction 1 (SM1) deals with an explanation of basic concepts, methods and methodologies of urban development (urban planning), development of settlements and its forms (morphogenesis, structural and functional) from prehistoric settlements, with a particular focus on the key period of development of city culture in the European civilization sphere and other major civilization spheres - the Near East, India and Indian subcontinent, the Far East, America and American cultures of North, Central and South America, global present. The lectures are focused on categorical concepts and specific methods and their place in thinking about the city and its construction (humans, space, place, path-motion, architecture, culture, etc.) in a broader civilizational and cultural context and is completed by a summary of the individual basic types of urban public and private space and landscape space.
Ability to be well informed about history and theory of urbanism |
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Unspecified
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Interview
The explanations are concentrated on the basic concepts and topics of urban development and method of thinking as one of the important parts of architecture in the broadest sense of the work, from the natural landscape, social economic, cultural civilisation and urban technical points of view. Basic secondary-school knowledge of history is assumed, specifically the knowledge of the history of architecture and the other disciplines of the visual art and their relations to other kinds of art (general knowledge in the music or literature related to the period concerned) and the basic knowledge of philosophy and immediately related disciplines is also assumed. A student must be capable of active participation in the lecture and discussion; he/she must be able to study and interpret the discipline-related literature and prove the ability of applying the knowledge to a specific case - to analyse the development of a selected city, to interpret his/her knowledge in front of colleagues-students and to answer their questions and to prepare a written term paper based on this lecture. It assumed that the student has completed the basic discipline-related lectures (designing structures and smaller urban units as well as the history of architecture and visual art, technologies and processes). Active participation in lectures and ability to respond to stimuli. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Architecture | Study plan (Version): Environmental Design (20) | Category: Art and applied art | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Architecture | Study plan (Version): Architecture (1) | Category: Architecture | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer |