Course detail
Architect´s Practice
FA-ARP-KEAcad. year: 2022/2023
The course informs students about the aspects of architectural practice, function of state government, possibilities how to develop their career, professional environment, the meaning, responsibility and methodology of work etc.
The seminars provide basic knowledge needed to become an architect, to lead a private practice and other related activities (how to start a private design office, legal forms of legal subjects, accountancy management, design phases, requirements of a building permission process etc.)
The gained basic theoretical knowledge are applied in simple assignments developed during the seminars. The knowledge gained from the seminars will familiarize students with the problems that may occur in their future architectural practice.
Within the lectures part important personalities from the architectural environment, from centers and provinces, with longer or shorter practice, will be invited.
The course introduces selected architects practising in the Czech Republic and internationally in various specializations: architecture of buildings, urban design, interior, heritage protection, state and local government, support and promotion of architecture.
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Offered to foreign students
Learning outcomes of the course unit
– professional environment
– the conditions for the performance of the profession, employment
– creation and management, contractual relations, requisites, object, price/fee
– performance standards
– contract
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- seminars on theory, seminars contains application of gained knowledge via seminar works,
- lectures by outstanding experts from the practice.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Students are allowed to sit the exam when they have submitted all assignments. The assignments must meet all of the content requirements.
Course curriculum
- Architect, architecture as a value of public interest
- Architect's world, nature and culture, architecture as an object and work of cultural code and built environment
- Architect's work, its meaning, semiotics, and history
- Profile of architecture graduate, expertise and creativity, life-long self-education
- Architect's competence, employment, the creative class
- Architect's authorization to perform the profession, licensed architect, professional associations, professional ethics
- Architect's partners in construction: architect, client, contractor. Disputes and arbitrators
- Contract, architectural work. Contract agreement: object, time and (safe) price of performance
- Performance, standards, process
- Architect as a creative personality
- Architect in state and local government
- Architect as a promoter
- Architect as a heritage protectionist
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
FISHER, Thomas. Ethics for Architects: 50 Dilemmas of Professional Practice. Chronicle Books, 2012. ISBN: 9781616890797. (EN)
HNILIČKA, Pavel. Standards of Architects‘ Scope of Services. Praha: Česká komora architektů, 2018. URL: https://www.cka.cz/cs/media/prilohy/standard-sluzeb_en_2018.pdf (EN)
CHAPPELL, David; DUNN, Michael H. The Architect in Practice. John Wiley & Sons, 2016. ISBN: 9781118907733. (EN)
NICHOLSON, M. Paul. Architects' Guide to Fee Bidding. Taylor & Francis, 2002. ISBN: 978-0415273367. (EN)
TAIT, James. Entering Architectural Practice. Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 9780367365141. (EN)
UIA Accord on Recommended International Standards of Professionalism in Architectural Practice. International Union of Architects, 2017. URL: https://www.uia-architectes.org/webApi/uploads/ressourcefile/412/uia_accord___updated_2017.pdf (EN)
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