Academic year/semester: 2024/25/2

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 3
Seminarium:0
Practice: 1
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: -

Prerequisites: 3 semester Architectural History

Course Leader: Prof. Rudolf Klein

Faculty: Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, 1146 Budapest, Thököly út 74.

Course Description:
The aim of the course is to put architecture into a wider cultural context, to foster the students’ ability
in abstract thinking, to provide the students with basic knowledge on the link between civilization and
architecture – religion, philosophy and the society as a whole. The course extends the scope of
understanding architecture and urban planning with the elements of gardening and landscaping and
basic understanding of modern painting.
It also facilitates the students’ research abilities related to their future practice and further theoretical
enrichment needed for specialisation or PhD studies. The course also facilitates inter- and
multidisciplinary thinking, understanding different cultures and their interaction in the past. The
course aims at making Hungarian architecture familiar to foreign students, as Hungarian history and
culture in general

Competences:
able to sort, observe, and analyse information collected during the design, implementation and operational processes, and to conclude the lessons, including the feedback into practice

Topics:
1. week: Civilisational roots of contemporary architecture: western sources (historic architecture of
Europe), 19th century cultural globalization, Non-European sources I (1851-2021)
2. week: The influence of Japanese art, architecture and landscaping on modernism: Wright,
Wagner, Loos, Mies, Aalto, Scarpa; Tadao Ando
3. week: Art history block I, Postimpressionism
4. week: Art history block II, Isms: art movements in the early 20th century in Europe
5. week: Medieval Gardens, and Renaissance Gardens – forms and philosophy
6. week: Baroque Garden Art („The French garden”) – new concepts of the universe and landscaping
7. week: English Style Gardens, the Landscaping. (The landscaping of England and the continent).
8. week: Garden art styles in the 19th century and the turn of the century. Beginnings of Modern
Garden styles
9. week: Islamic Influence on western Modernism, Black African influence on modern art and
architecture – Picasso, Cubism, Expressionism, Neo-Expressionism of the 1950s and 1990s
10. week: 20th century and 21st century gardens - interaction with architecture, urban spaces
11. week: ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION OF STUDENTS’ BETA V. PAPERS
12. week: Architecture of totalitarian states
13. week: Guest lecture t.b.a.
14. week: PRESENTATION OF THE STUDENTS’ PAPERS

Assessment: Presentations

Exam Types:

Compulsory bibliography: none

Recommended bibliography: none

Additional bibliography: none

Additional Information: none