Social Sciences and Architecture
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 105SVAI | Z,ZK | 5 | 4P+1C | Czech |
- Course guarantor:
- Jana Hrbková, Josef Záruba Pfeffermann
- Lecturer:
- Jana Hrbková, Bořivoj Marek, Rudolf Pošva, Dana Římanová, Josef Záruba Pfeffermann
- Tutor:
- Jana Hrbková
- Supervisor:
- Department of Social Sciences
- Synopsis:
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The subject combines the teaching of several social sciences - economics and economic policy, political science and law - with an overview of the development of architecture. Within economics, students will become familiar with basic economic concepts, the essence of economic and social policy and the place of construction in the economic structure. The content of the lectures on law is an overview of the institutions of Roman law, an interpretation of the constitution, human rights and selected legal norms, especially the new construction law. The political science part outlines the development of political thought in antiquity and in the period from the Renaissance to the present. Lectures on the history of architecture and construction provide a comprehensive explanation of the history of architecture from antiquity to postmodernism and deconstruction.
- Requirements:
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Credit:
Participation in exercises (max. 2 absences). If there are more absences, it is possible to make up for these absences by working out a replacement task. Successful writing of the credit test in social sciences.
Exam:
Successful writing of the architecture development exam.
- Syllabus of lectures:
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1. Economy and construction. Ancient Greece.
2. Market structures, construction companies, and profit maximization. Ancient Rome.
3. Measuring the performance of the economy. Early Middle Ages and Byzantium.
4. Public goods and externalities; public space and construction. Romanesque period.
5. The state in a market economy; foundations of economic and social policy. Gothic period.
6. Overview of the development of Roman law and its institutions. Renaissance.
7. The Constitution of the Czech Republic and its institutions; Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. Baroque and Rococo.
8. Selected provisions of Act No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code. Classicism and 19th-century historicisms.
9. Selected provisions of Act No. 283/2021 Coll., Building Act (new). Engineering structures, Art Nouveau, Modernism.
10. Selected provisions of Act No. 262/2006 Coll., Labour Code. Cubo-Expressionism and Futurism.
11. Political thought in antiquity. Constructivism, Purism, Functionalism.
12. Political thought from the Renaissance to the age of ideologies. Neoclassicism, Late Modernism.
13. Political thought in the 20th century and today. Postmodernism, High-Tech, Deconstruction.
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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1. Information on the subject 105SVAI, structure, completion. Basic economic questions. Opportunity costs and sunk costs examples, calculation of opportunity costs and sunk costs.
2. Company goals, profit maximization conditions. Market structures. Cost and profit calculations.
3. Structure of the economy, branches, sectors, development. The place of construction in the economic structure. Legal forms of business.
4. Accounting and economic profit of the company. Expenses vs. costs, revenues vs. income. Profit vs. cash flow. Calculation of accounting and economic profit.
5. Money, functions of money, multiplied expansion of bank deposits.
6. Money and capital markets. The meaning of the interest rate. Investment in construction.
7. Aggregate demand and aggregate supply. Measuring the performance of the economy. Construction and changes in the economic structure.
8. Inflation causes and consequences. Nominal and real interest rates, nominal and real wages. Current problems the development of inflation in the Czech Republic.
9. Czech National Bank. Monetary policy instruments of the CNB development, changes, and consequences for economic growth and inflation.
10. Basic terms of international economics. Foreign trade, balance of trade and payments, exchange rates.
11. Foreign exchange interventions of the Czech National Bank.
12. Externalities and public goods.
13. Basic concepts of social policy and the structure of the social security system of the Czech Republic.
- Study Objective:
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Have a basic understanding of the three social sciences and the ability to think critically about and understand social issues. Gain an overview of the history of architecture from antiquity to postmodernism and deconstruction.
- Study materials:
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!HRBKOVÁ, J. a kol.: Společenské vědy pro techniky Ekonomie, právo, politologie - 3., aktualizované a doplněné vydání. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2025. ISBN 978-80-271-5676-4.
!DUDÁK, V. a kol.: Encyklopedie světové architektury 1. a 2. díl. Praha: Baset, 2002. ISBN 80-86223-90-6.
!GÖSSEL, P., LEUTHÄUSEROVÁ, G.: Architektura 20. století. Praha: Slovart, 2003. ISBN 978-80-7209-814-9.
?HRBKOVÁ, J. a kol.: Základy ekonomické teorie II. (Mikroekonomická teorie). Praha: ČVUT, 2000. ISBN 80-01-02186-6.
- Note:
- Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
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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 Thu Fri - Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
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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 Thu Fri - The course is a part of the following study plans:
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- Civil Engineering (compulsory course)
- Civil Engineering (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Pozemní stavby (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Konstrukce a dopravní stavby (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Příprava, realizace a provoz staveb (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Materiálové inženýrství (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Požární bezpečnost staveb (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Vodní hospodářství a vodní stavby (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Inženýrství životního prostředí (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Pozemní stavby (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Příprava, realizace a provoz staveb (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Materiálové inženýrství (compulsory course)