Objectives and competences
- knowledge and comprehension on basic terms from history of architecture, its typology and terminology.
- knowledge and comprehension on the basic term from theory of architecture and its development.
- knowledge and comprehension on connections of architecture with other sorts of arts and their specifics.
- knowledge and comprehension on basic literature in the handled field and development of reception of architecture.
- knowledge and comprehension in methodological approaches to research and interpretation of architecture.
- knowledge, comprehension and interpretation on the development of architectural creativity through historic periods.
- knowledge, comprehension and interpretation on the recognising of historic styles in architecture and the broader connecting of monuments within individual eras.
Content (Syllabus outline)
The subject in the first part is designed as introduction into the comprehension and interpretation of architecture, and the basic emphasis is put on:
- architecture as arts / architecture and arts;
- terminology, typology, analysis;
- reception of architecture: history of studying, interpretation;
- architectural theory, sources;
- authoral / anonymous architecture, historic / modern architecture;
- specific (urbanism, landscape architecture) and border fields (ethnology);
- methodology of research, protection and preservation of architectural monuments.
In the second part a chronological overview of architecture follows:
- architecture of antiquity (near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome)
- old Christian and Byzantine architecture
- medieval architecture (Romanticism, Gothicism)
- architecture of Renaissance and Mannerism)
- Baroque architecture
- Neoclassicism and Historicism
- Architecture of 20th and 21st century
The subject is designed as chronological overview of the development of architecture, where the monuments are handled in a broader context of individual historic styles.
Monuments on Slovenian territory are properly included in the overview of key monuments from individual eras.
Learning and teaching methods
- lectures with AV presentations
- tutorial in lecture rooms and field work
- writing seminar works
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
- Student will list and define basic terminology from the field of history of architecture.
- Student will list, define, classify and interpret the most important architectural monuments.
- Student will list, define, classify, interpret the basic literature in the field of history of architecture and different approaches to handling and validation of architecture.
- Student will describe, define, classify, interpret architectural monuments of various stylistic periods.
- Student will explain, classify, interpret selected monuments of architecture in a broader cultural and historical context.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Basic knowledge will be useful for the students in other subjects from the study programme.
- Cognition of terminology, typology and history of architecture will deepen their understanding of history of arts.
- Basic cognition of history of architecture will enable the students an easier understanding of fine arts in individual eras.
- By the overview of accessible literature and sources the students will be enabled for independent research and writing of seminar works on the problems of history of architecture
- By the basic knowledge on the development and the obtained capability of critical validation they will gain basic knowledge for practical work in institutions for studying and protection of cultural heritage.
Readings
- Bruno Zevi, Pogledi na arhitekturo, Ljubljana 1959.
- Nikolaus Pevsner, Oris evropske arhitekture, Ljubljana 1966.
- Nace Šumi, Pregled razvoja slovenske arhitekture, v: Pogledi na slovensko umetnost, Ljubljana 1975 (Pogledi, 2).
- Wilfried Koch, Umetnost stavbarstva, Ljubljana 1999.
- Harry F. Malgrave, Modern architectural theory: a historical survey, Cambridge-New York 2005.
- Stane Bernik, Slovenska arhitektura dvajsetega stoletja, Ljubljana 2004.
- Marvin Trachtenberg, Isabelle Hyman, Architecture. From Prehistory to Postmodernism, New York 2002.
Dodatni študijski viri:
- Emilijan Cevc, Slovenska umetnost, Ljubljana 1966.
- - Stane Bernik, Pogledi na novejšo slovensko arhitekturo in oblikovanje, Ljubljana 1992.
- Ernst Hans Gombrich, The Story of Art, London 1995.
- Umetnost na Slovenskem od prazgodovine do danes, Ljubljana 1998.
- Horst Waldemar Janson, Anthony F. Janson, History of Art, London 2016.
- Fedja Košir, K arhitekturi, 1–3, Ljubljana 2006-2007.
Podrobnejše napotke za študijsko literaturo dobijo študentje na predavanjih.
Prerequisits
No special prerequisites.
Additional information on implementation and assessment - seminar work and its presentation
- oral exam
(Positive grade of seminar work is obligatory for access to oral exam.)
