SUMMARY The profile of a graduate of the former Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering (FAPS) was directed towards the utilitarian buildings, with a more social than temporal approach. Even nowadays most of the graduates will have to solve more utilitarian problems than problems of extravagance. A very important part of education will be to […]
Papers
SUMMARY The TEMPUS project REGAMTER has initiated the question of establishing the Institute of land-use planning at the FA STU. Land-use planning has been taught at the FA STU in a way to develop creative and conceptual thinking to solve the structural problems in the country. Land-use planning practice requires solving other aspects too. To […]
SUMMARY The role of the branch “Design” is not set quite clearly in the organizational structure of the FA STU, especially with regard to its creation and the synthesis of independent artistic and technical disciplines in the university environment. It goes along with insufficient facilities and equipment of this department. I propose to revitalize the […]
SUMMARY The quality of university education can be improved by a change in the hierarchy of values. A university pedagogue should teach current issues which he or she gained through research and involve the students. It is possible to attempt introducing an independent studio supervised by guest professor celebrities. The system of credits should follow […]
SUMMARY The shift in opinions of architects about park and landscape architecture has been manifested by a more complete education of landscape planning subjects. Landscape architecture does not only involve work with the physical elements of the natural but with nature and its processes. One obligatory subject is devoted to the issues of cultural and […]
SUMMARY Assuming that the search for a new model of study has begun, it is necessary to define the educational process at the FA STU in a more appropriate way, and to open the question of academic relationships as well. Even the best model of the curriculum or of the organizational structure remains outside academic […]
SUMMARY To understand the contents of the subject Landscape Planning, we have to comprehend the size of a particular site and its inner dimensions as well as the dimensions of the country and the contact of the site and the country. Such a subject is suitable for the complex solution of the whole area and […]
SUMMARY The paper deals with two issues connected with the contents and the form of education at the FA STU from the point of view of the Department of monuments protection and creation: a) the issues of practical lessons of the students in the field, b) the issues of practical interdisciplinary cooperation with other universities. […]
SUMMARY The paper is concerned with the education of sociology in the frame of the FA STU curriculum which has not always been in accordance with the ideas of the lectures of this subject. These ideas are supported by the objective facts, by the nature of both sociology and architecture, and by the professional profile […]