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ST-25 | History of Building Techniques

Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 1C+1L | ECTS Credits: 2

Titular:

conf.dr.arh. Liviu Gligor

Learning outcomes:

The course aims to give to the students the necesary knoledge about the building methodes and techniques practiced during the history, pertinent understanding and interpreting in regional. national and international context of the process of building as a cultural gesture, to develop the professional capacity of students in order to distinguish, recognise,apreciate and evaluate the building phases of an architectural object.

Content:

Antique masonry. The Dacian-Roman constructions.
Gothic architecture. Cultural interflows in south-easten Europe.
Medieval masonry. Arces, voults. Transylvanian fortifyed churces.
Wood architecture. Vernacular architecture. Historic roofs structures.
Iron in architecture. The use of iron on the Romanian territory, an echo of the international practices.
Reinforced concrete and its speciffic uses in the architecture of the XIX and XX centuries.
Contemporqary integrative building systems: wood, glass, steel, concrete and the consequences in the build patrimony.

Teaching Method:

Digital illustrated presentations, guided visits at patrimony objectives. Practical exercise on a modell.

Assessment:

Theoretivcal examination and modell presentation.

Bibliography:

Balint, Szabo, Illustrated dictionary for historic roof structures, Ed. Kriterion&Utilita, 2005, Cluj;
Dame, Frederic, Esey for folk romanian terminologywith 300 engravings, Ed. Vestala, Bucureşti, 2006;
Derer, Hanna, Sibiu: Architectur in the barocque epoque, Ed. Universitară Ion Mincu, Bucureşti, 2002;
Gligor, Liviu, Iron in the Romanian architecture,. Ed. Universitară Ion Mincu, Bucureşti, 2003;
Cowan, J., Henry; Smith, R., Peter, THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF BUILDING MATERIALS, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1988
Moroianu Dinu, Ştefan I M, The vital-fire, Pages from the history of Romanian inventions and discoveries, Ed. Ştiinţifică, Bucureşti, 1963;
Steopoe, Al, Building materials, Ed. Tehnica, Bucureşti, 1965;
Palladio A. : Four books of Architecture, edition presented by arh. R. Bordenache, Ed. Tehnica, Bucuresti., 1957
Vitruviu, On architecture, Ed. Academică RSR, 1964 ;
* * * Technical illustrated enyclopedia, Ed. Teora, Bucureşti/Sibiu, 1999;

Notes:

The course sets the the accent on the regional practical experiences in illustrating the the history of building techniques presented in an international setting.