History of Modern Architecture

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range
555HMA	ZK	2	2+0

Lecturer:

Vladimír Šlapeta

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Supervisor:

Department of Theory and History of Architecture

Synopsis:

Examines tradition of modern architecture of 20th Century In Czech republic and Central Europe with international Interactions and influences. Lectures are accompanied by excursions in Prague, Brno, Hradec Králové etc.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1. Czech Jugendstil and early modernism. 2. Czech Cubism. 3. The National Style and the Dutch influence. 4. Josef Gočár. 5. Kamil Roškot. 6. Adolf Loos. 7.Josip Plecnik. 8. Czech Functionalism I. 9. Czech Functionalism II. 10. Czechoslovak Werkbund and the Baba housing exhibition. 11. Interactions with Bauhaus and Le Corbusier. 12. Prague modern urban culture. 13. Brno - a city of Modern Architecture. 14. Zlín - the Baťa industrial city.

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Study materials:

1. Šlapeta, Vladimír: Czech Funkcionalism 1918-1936, AA London, 1987. 2. Czech Cubism, Princeton Press, 1933. 3. Loos, Adolf: The Müller House, Prague, 2000. 4. Josip Plečnik, Prague, 1996.

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