SUMMARY In the introduction, the paper analyzes the development of the graduate’s profile in the latest period. The feedback from the graduates confirmed the appropriateness of this particular subject for architects. Furthemore, there is a requirement to extend this subject, as it encompasess specific technical skills needed for the highly competitive architectural professional market. At […]
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SUMMARY The task of the Chamber of Architects is to take care of the status of architects and architecture. The undergraduates at the Faculty of Architecture are its future members and therefore the chamber should take care of them too. On the other hand, the chamber expects highly professional education at the FA STU in […]
SUMMARY The new curriculum, which has come into effect since the 1992-1993 school year, has eliminated disadvantages for the excessive number of students who begin their study and after half of the study course leave the school without any official possibility to recognize their results. Six hours of intensive course-work before the study enable the […]
SUMMARY At present there is a liberal interpretation of architectural practice. Education in architecture can have various models. The reform in 1968 caused a drastic decline of actual practice and gave priority to academic education. The reform of the state school system in 1984 decided for multidisciplinarity, which enables the architect to analyze the issues […]
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 department team is trying to lead the students towards a responsible and self-conscious relationship with the irreplaceable values of historical architectural heritage. Looking at the studio works and designs of other departments, we can see insufficient respect for historical monumental buildings, which is caused by the lack of analytical study and by the […]
SUMMARY The present situation in our school of architecture is marked by the polemics on the amount and content of humanities in their curriculum. One of the interventions to the structure of the architects’ education is elimination of a compulsory subject “history of art”, which, since the origin of the school of architecture, has always […]
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SUMMARY The author presents here his personal ideas concerning architectural design and its philosophy, starting from the basic meaning of architecture – from serving the users’ needs. The difference between physical and “moral” lifetime of architecture brings the need of variability of the current buildings and interiors. Another discussed problem is the modernity of architecture. […]