Contemporary Architecture Course code: SAVA | 4 ECTS credits

Basic information

Level of Studies: Undergraduate applied studies

Year of Study: 2

Semester: 3

Requirements:

Goal: The objective of the course is to acquaint students with the development of modern architecture and contemporary trends in architecture in the 20th and 21stcentury. Through new technological, industrial and social changes from the 18th and 19th century, they will be prepared for and educated about the artistic and architectural directions leading to new trends in architecture, which are collectively referred to as contemporary architecture.

Outcome: Civil engineers of architectural department should be engaged in architectural profession in such a way that they can take their place in a design office as the designers of certain facilities or construction site managers, where their knowledge gained in this course will be valuable.

Contents of the course

Theoretical instruction:

Defining modernism and holders of modernism:
Mackintosh and Gaudi
Wright
Futurism
Cubism
Expressionism
De Stijl
Bauhaus and Gropius
Purism and Le Corbusier
Mies van derRohe
The tradition of modernism
The architecture of the totalitarian regimes: Italy, Germany, USSR
Alvar Alto
CIAM and the Athens Charter
New Brutalism and Metabolism
Louis Kahn
Late Modernism
Post modernism
Michael Graves, Hans Holajn, Aldo Rossi, Richard Meier, Zaha Hadid
High-tech architecture
Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano, Norman Foster
De-constructivism, Frank Gehry
Critical regionalism
Utzun Jorn, Harry Wolf, Tadao Ando
Modernism in Serbian architecture

Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):

Textbooks and References

Number of active classes (weekly)

Lectures: 1

Practical classes: 1

Other types of classes: 0

Grading (maximum number of points: 100)

Pre-exam obligations

Points

activities during lectures

activities on practial excersises

seminary work

colloquium

Final exam

Points

Written exam

Oral exam