Academic year/semester: 2025/26/2

ECTS Credits: 5

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 2
Seminarium:0
Practice: 1
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: 1 absolved semester related to architecture history, of urban history. IMPORTANT: Students can choose whether ONLY MSc (incl. YAROESFBNF) courses, or ONLY vertical studio courses! Exceptions we can make on individual decisions based on special requests, maximum for less than 50% of the courses - please contact our international coordinator.

Course Leader: Dr. Benárd Aurél DLA

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

Course Description:
The course is about the Architecture of the nineteenth century, from the late baroque until the turn of the century, and aims to enable the students to understand architecture, analyse space and form, function and structure. This course is tailored to the needs of architectural design by approaching eminent pieces of architecture from the viewpoint of function, building type and urban context.

Competences:
The course facilitates individual research, use of sources, libraries, electronical sources, it encourages teamwork of students, student initiative in the practical research work and in presentation of the obtained data.

Topics:
Topics:
WEEK LECTURE PRACTICE
1
Introduction
Architecture and Engineering
Late baroque in France, French utopian architecture Introduction, tasks of the semester.
Forming groups
2
French NeoClassicism
NeoClassicism in Berlin Consultation of task of the semester
3
NeoClassicism in Berlin,
Budapest in the early 19. century Consultation of task of the semester
4 NeoClassicism in England Consultation of task of the semester
5 NeoClassicism in England, USA, Ireland Consultation of task of the semester
6 NeoClassicism in Russia, St.Petersburg Consultation of task of the semester
7
The architecture of romanticism, in London, Parliament, Brighton Consultation of task of the semester
8
French romanticism,
Library Genevieve Consultation of task of the semester
9 The romanticism in Vienna, in Austria-Hungary and Bavaria Consultation of task of the semester
10
Stylmixed historicism, Paris, Opera,
Eiffel, Haussmann Consultation of task of the semester
11 Dresden, stylmixed historicism in the USA pre - exam
12 Historicism in Austria-Hungary, Vienna, Semper, museums,
Budapest, Ybl Presentations
first deadline for the task
13 deadline for corrected task

Assessment: semester tasks

Exam Types:

Written Exam

Compulsory bibliography: Clade Mignon: Architecture of the nineteenth century, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Köln, 1983 Sisa József - Dora Wiebenson: Architecture of Historic Hungary. The MIT Press (May 24, 1998) Szentkirályi Zoltán – Détshy Mihály: Az építészet rövid története. Terc Kiadó, Budapest, 2013. Kalmár Miklós: Historizmus Századforduló (Az építészet története) Nemzeti Tankönykiadó, Budapest, 2001 Wilfried Koch: Építészeti stílusok. Az európai építőművészet az ókortól napjainkig. Helikon Kiadó, Budapest, 2005. Wilfried Koch: Baustilkunde. Das Standardwerk zur europäischen Baukunst von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Bertelsmann 2003. Kenneth Frampton: Modern Architecture: A Critical History (World of Art), Thames and Hudson, London, 2007. (Kenneth Frampton: A modern építészet kritikai története 2. bővített kiadás, Terc, Budapest 2009)

Recommended bibliography: Clade Mignon: Architecture of the nineteenth century, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Köln, 1983 Sisa József - Dora Wiebenson: Architecture of Historic Hungary. The MIT Press (May 24, 1998) Szentkirályi Zoltán – Détshy Mihály: Az építészet rövid története. Terc Kiadó, Budapest, 2013. Kalmár Miklós: Historizmus Századforduló (Az építészet története) Nemzeti Tankönykiadó, Budapest, 2001 Wilfried Koch: Építészeti stílusok. Az európai építőművészet az ókortól napjainkig. Helikon Kiadó, Budapest, 2005. Wilfried Koch: Baustilkunde. Das Standardwerk zur europäischen Baukunst von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Bertelsmann 2003. Kenneth Frampton: Modern Architecture: A Critical History (World of Art), Thames and Hudson, London, 2007. (Kenneth Frampton: A modern építészet kritikai története 2. bővített kiadás, Terc, Budapest 2009)

Additional bibliography: NA

Additional Information: NA