Lectures

Building History I deals with the history of building from Greek antiquity to the Romanesque period. Special attention is paid to the constructive solution of building tasks. The lecture spans the arc from ancient Greek large stone constructions to the "Opus Caementicium" and the vault constructions of the Romans to the revival of cast stone architecture and vaulting in the Romanesque period.

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The "Construction History" lecture is dedicated to a different topic from the broad spectrum of historical architecture each year. The topic is examined from an architectural, constructive-static and production-historical perspective. The aim of the course is to familiarise students with the working methods of historical building research using specific case studies (working directly on the object), to understand and classify historical building constructions using the methodology of construction history (archive studies, analysis of historical image sources and specialist literature) and, based on this, to develop strategies for building assessment and preservation.

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