Winter Semester 2007/08
Winter Semester 2008/09
Winter Semester 2009/10
Winter Semester 2010/11
Winter Semester 2011/12
Winter Semester 2012/13
Contemporary Architecture AW3026
Course content:
Neoclassicism. Historicism. Technical progress in the 19th century and its influence on the development of architecture. Chicago School. Secession. The beginning of the 20th century: Expressionism, Futurism. De Stijl, Russian Constructivism. The genesis and development of modernism. Bauhaus and its influence on the development of architecture and art. The work of great architects: F.L.Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, W.Gropius, A.Aalto. Modernism after World War II. Other phenomena in the post-war architecture The specificity of the contemporary architecture of selected countries. Critique of modernism. Postmodernism. Architecture of the last decades of the 20th and the beginning 21st century.
Learning outcomes:
Knowledge of architectural history from the first half 18th century to the present.
(in Polish) Rodzaj przedmiotu
Course coordinators
Bibliography
a) basic references:
1. Giedion S., Przestrzeń, czas, architektura, Warszawa 1968.
2. Jencks Ch., Ruch nowoczesny w architekturze, Warszawa 1987.
3. Jencks Ch., Architektura postmodernistyczna, Warszawa 1987.
4. Jencks Ch., Architektura późnego modernizmu, Warszawa 1989.
5. Miłobędzki A. zarys dziejów architektury w Polsce, Warszawa 1994.
6. Stefański K., Architektura XIX wieku na ziemiach polskich, Warszawa 2005.
7. Watkin D., Historia architektury zachodniej, Warszawa 2001.
8. Wisłocka I., Awangardowa architektura polska 1918-1939, Warszawa 1967.
b) supplementary references:
1. Ghirardo D., Architektura po modernizmie. Wydawnictwo VIA, 1999.
2. Pevsner N., Historia architektury europejskiej, t. 2, Warszawa 1980.
3. Pevsner N., Pionierzy współczesności, Warszawa 1978.
4. Sztuka świata, t. 8, 9, 10, Warszawa 1994 (t. 8), Warszawa 1996 (t. 9, 10).