SUMMARY The study is discussing those principles of sustainability whicb are relevant for town planning. The current problems of cities are analysed looking for possibilities of their fixing in urban structure, traffic concept, resource saving, prevention of pollution, integration with the nature etc. A vision of sustainable city is presented here: it has to be […]

SUMMARY The FA STU has a monopolistic status in Slovakia. This is connected with the problems of university education for architects in our country. A solution is posible by the following steps: a) to decentralize by establishment of a new school of architecture in Slovakia, e.g. in Košice, b) to adapt the curriculum so that […]

SUMMARY To achieve a higher dimension of the university studies, while reaching a modern and compatible branch of study, it must be reflected in the educational programmes. The innovative process of town and country planning is determined by new socio-economic conditions. A wider context of housing development issues is required from ISCED-UNESCO with the concept […]

SUMMARY There are two grades of study at the Faculty of Architecture in Brno. The first grade covers the former full study of architecture and graduates obtain a bachelor degree. Then one year of practice follows. In the second grade of study the curriculum is specialized according to modules. There is a choice of seven […]

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 […]

SUMMARY The author, who is a graduate of civil engineering from the Slovak University of Technology in 1949, designed statics and constructions of various remarkable buildings in Slovakia and Bohemia. He cooperated with architects Prof. Jozej Lacko (Press enter in Bratislava), with Ján Bahna (Headquarters of General Credit Bank) and others. He can remember his […]

SUMMARY The history of the interdisciplinary studies in spatial planning has begun in Austria in 1970 at the TU Vienna. The next modification of the curriculum of spatial planning started to take place in 1992. At present a new model of the study is under preparation. The most substantial change compared to the present model […]

SUMMARY When starting with the new concept of the study and its curricula, it is inevitable to consider the substance of the university system of education, its possible ways of application as well as the fact if the discipline itself includes the possibility to apply the basic academic principles. There are many reasons why the […]