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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Lectured topics: 1. Introduction - aims and methods of building archaeology, recording standards 2. Formal analysis of built environment - materials and their processing 3. Stratigraphy and chronology of buildings 4. Constructional, functional and stace analyses of buildings 5. Medieval villiage and its built environment 6. Constructions in the context of Early Medieval elite centres 7. Sacral architecture 8. Manor houses and fortifications (Late Medieval) 8. Urban development - methods of study, case studies, analysis and formal variability of town architecture
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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The course aims to build awareness of the close relationship between archeology and artifacts building, lecture submit elements of complex specialty that deals with this subject, ie. Building archeology. Students will learn the basic types of structures of historical buildings and the materials used (stone, wood, clay bricks, daub). Great attention will be paid to methods and practical approaches in the research of the historic building and architecture. It will outline practical and symbolic function of buildings. Architecture, building culture and interior equipment of buildings early Middle Ages making an approach in individual categories: villages and development of a country house, fort, courts, agglomeration, Great Moravian religious buildings, pre-Romanesque architecture, Romanesque churches and the first seat of the nobility, the beginnings of monasteries, Romanesque buildings in Prague. In a similar way, the issue will be presented works of high and late Middle Ages: a three-piece home village, castles, manors, small (castles, forts, farms) and other fortifications, churches and religious buildings, monasteries. Larger thematic focus will be the beginnings of urbanization Czech lands, creation and design of cities and town house. The seminar will focus on deepening knowledge of the structures of historic buildings and the materials used. It will include an excursion to the folk architecture in the statement, among others. With unique documents earthen architecture. Stone architecture of the city and townhouses will be demonstrated on objects of the urban conservation area Olomouc. Students will work with the materials documenting the structure (eg. A scrawl with fingerprints) and become familiar with the procedures and results of building-historical research. On the exposed brickwork of historic structures from archaeological excavations will be clearly demonstrated stratigraphic relationships masonry structures. Torsional architecture will be complemented by the development and interpretation of the categories above-ground structures and individual building elements.
Good orientation in the area of study.
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Prerequisites
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Basic orientation (bachelor study level) in Middle Ages and Postmedieval Period, and in medieval archaeology and archaeological historic preservation.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
participation on the lessons (48 hours=2 credits); individual studying of information sources and paper/presentation preparation (50 hours=2 credits)
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Recommended literature
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Durdík, T.; Bolina, P. (2001). Středověké hrady v Čechách a na Moravě. Praha.
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Frolec, V.; Vařeka, J. (1983). Lidová architektura. Praha.
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Škabrada, J. (2000). Konstrukce historických staveb. Praha.
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Škabrada, J.:. (2003). Lidové stavby. Architektura českého venkova. Praha.
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