History of Architecture 3/4

Course guarantor:

Pavel Kalina

Lecturer:

Pavel Kalina

Tutor:

Pavel Kalina

Supervisor:

Department of Theory and History of Architecture

Synopsis:

The aim of the course is to trace the most important features of Baroque architecture including its social context and building technology. Students should acquire the ability to interpret Baroque architecture according to its geometrical design and social function.

Requirements:

- Quizzes (approx. 4x in semester simple quizz a/b/c/d/ testing the knowledge of the subject matter covered)

- Paper (a short essay about an important medieval building/buildings in the place where you live)

- Final exam

Syllabus of lectures:

The World of Baroque Church

1. 16th-century architecture in Italy / the rise of architectural treatise

2. Italian Art and Architecture around 1600 / the legacy of Michelangelo

3. The Birth of Baroque in Rome / Bernini, Borromini and the transformation of the city

4. Globalization of Baroque

5. The Triumph of the Church Czech Art and Architecture after the Battle at the White Mountain

6. Tendencies of Prague art and architecture in the second half of the 17th century / palace and church architecture

7. Tendencies of Prague art and architecture in the second half of the 17th century / palace and church architecture II

8. The architecture of Dientzenhofer family I

9. The architecture of Dientzenhofer family II High Baroque Church as a Gesamtkunstwerk

10. The Baroque Gothic of J. B. Santini-Aichl

11. The Decay of the Baroque World

12. Excursion St Nicholas Church and the churches of the Lesser Side

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Textbooks available in the library:

Christian Norberg-Schulz, Baroque Architecture, Milan, 1979.

Christian Norberg-Schulz, Late Baroque and Rococo Architecture, Milan, 1980.

Recommended:

Pavel Kalina, In opere gotico unicus: The Hybrid Architectures of Jan Blažej Santini-Aichl and the Patterns of Memory in Post-Reformation Bohemia, Umění LVIII, 2010, no. 1, pp. 42-56.

Pavel Kalina, Carlo Fontana, Domenico Martinelli, and Georg Adam II of Martinitz: Architectural Design, Architectural Collaboration and Aristocratic Representation Around 1700, Umění LXIII, 2015, no. 1-2, pp. 34-54.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2025/2026:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2025/2026:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed	roomT9:112 Kalina P. 10:45–12:15 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice
Thu
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: