The ambition of the diploma thesis is to create an impulse, which is able to reconnect people with the landscape through the architecture in my homeland. Small interventions in landscape with the participation of residence is a chance for activation of this environment and the habitant's minds. The main point is free interpretation of traditional wooden architecture.

Auguste Perret made his mark in history as the first architect to make use of ferroconcrete as an expressive material. The Rue Franklin apartments, the Garage Ponthieu, and the Church in Le Raincy are all milestones in the development of world architecture. In my dissertation, I have outlined the situation in the French architectural criticism in the first decades of the 20th century in order to provide background to Perret's career, which is chronologically treated in another part of the dissertation and completed with an overview of Perret's important buildings. I also wanted to demonstrate the interconnection of his projects with his theoretical thinking. I have referred to the sources of Perret's doctrine and presented the themes that this architect consistently developed throughout his creative life. In my research I took advantage of a rich collection of preserved archives of Perret's office, and both historical and contemporary literature. In another part of the dissertation, I attempted to find answers to the questions of Perret's reception in the Czech context and his contacts with Czech architects. I was also interested in Perret's relation to Czech architecture and in the last section I examined whether we can find works in Czech architecture that directly reflect Perret's influence. We...

This dissertation informs about the life and work cremonese painter, architect and decorator Giulio Campi (c. 1502-1572), who became in 1541 the author of the decorations for the triumphal entry of Emperor Charles V in Cremona. Together with his colleague Camille Boccaccino suggested a number of triumphal arches, whose appearance has been preserved to this day on preparatory drawings. A number of preparatory drawings, which are part of the recently discovered album of the Clara - Aldringen in Teplice, keep the National Gallery in Prague. This thesis concerns the problems of Campi's proposals of the arches - addresses visual effects that might have had an influence on the Campi's drawing expression, features other Campi's surviving drawings from the collection of the European institutions and summarizes a form of the Charles V Trionfo in 1541 and Philip II. Trionfo in 1549 in Cremona.

Cosmic inspiration influenced huge amount of different artistic material. It was the only one topic, which went through categories such as high art and popular culture, fine and applied arts, all the medias, official and independent production, state ideology and interest of common man. Thesis tries to go through these categories high and low, fine and applied, official and independent. It divils its material into thematic chapters to achieve this goal. First of them Expand your mind deals with projects of visionary architecture, which does not try to create new "cosmic" kapes but expand - with Marshall McLuhan -man's mind and senses. Then Gravitationless state describes petting loose of Earth as principal feeling of space age. Peace and Freedom play role of contradictory ideological terms to fights between politicians, artists and spaceships. How Does Space Look Like is a question for representation of cosmic topics between abstraction and realism ant the last charter Space for Children does not show reduced version of space for children but "adult" ideological construction of connection between the youngest generation and future in space. Individual chapters are preceded by theoretical introductin The World Where We Will Live Tommorow and The Word We Live In. It is a confrontation of...

94 Abstract The purpouse of my thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues of copyright in architecture. I tis very complex topic and orientation in it brings many difficulties not only to public. As revealed in my work, there is very few litigation on this issue, but that doesn't mean that they doesn't exist at all. However, architects or architectural ateliers mostly aren't interested in venturing into protracted disputies and the vast majority of these disputies ends with out court settlements. This behavior is understandable, since building design represents architect's livehood, they rather abates in their opinions rather than undergoing the time and economically disadvantageous battle with the investor. My diploma thesis consists of six chapters, each of them examines architectural work from a different perspective. The purpouse of the first chapter is to clarify the concept of architecture and traditional architecture, which the Copyright Act concieves just very briefly. The second chapter analyzes the characteristics of an architectural work, including the urbanistical work. Another part focuses on legal conceptual characteristicss that work must fulfill to be under the protection of copyright law. Beside that, I describe concept of authorship, co-autorship and employee work issues....

The thesis titled Zbynek Hřivnáč and Interior Design of the 1950s to the 1970s attempts to map all the most important aspects of this discipline in the former Czechoslovakia and specifically to bring important design, interior, artistic and architectural projects in which it appears still lesser known name of architect and designer Zbynek Hřivnáč. On the evolution of exceptionally prolific architect and interior designer Zbynek Hřivnáč we demonstrate basic tendencies and historical facts that played in the design of interiors its essential role. Zbynek Hřivnáč here, however, does not act as a true art solitaire, but rather as a link of individual described projects that are mostly, with a few exceptions, has been involved in a large team of professionals including architects, engineers, designers, craftsmen and ultimately especially artists. Zbynek Hřivnáč here as a very important figure in the background of the great names of history of Czech architecture such as Karel Filsak, Jan Šrámek or Jan Bočan and some more. On each project, we will be able to know the different roles of this creator ranging from implementation through equal cooperation with their colleagues to studio work in large architectural ateliers. All this takes place against the background of stylish and historical development of...

1 English Abstract Searching for Styles of National Architecture in Habsburg Central Europe 1890-1920 Art Nouveau and Turn-of-the-Century Architecture as Nation-Building This thesis examines aspirations of Central European nations to create architectural style, which would be particular to the given nation and would convey national spirit and character through architectural form. Inspired by social and cultural history, historians of architecture have recently begun to study conscious efforts of national elites to use architecture for nationalistic ends. Considerable attention has been paid to the interplay between national movements emerging in Europe before the World War I, and the concurrent developments in the field of architecture as signified by introduction of the Art Nouveau. However, most of these works focus on individual national building movement. Building on the existing set of studies developed in different national contexts, this thesis takes a step further and approaches the issue from the transnational perspective Applying the comparative history methodology to the three cases studies - Hungarian, Czech and Polish, all non-German ethnic groups in the Austro- Hungarian Monarchy - enables close examination of the intertwined development of modern nations and architecture. By the turn of the...

The thesis deals with the problems of construction of the European security architecture after the Cold War. The first part of the thesis discusses the new security environment after the end of the confrontation era. The second part deals with the considerations of the models of the European security architecture after the Cold War. The discussion about the role of the particular security organizations is also included. The third part of the thesis introduces the Russian proposal -- known as the Medvedev's initiative -- and offers the summary of the studies made by the reputable security analysts who deal with the analysis and the criticism of the Russian proposal. The next part of the thesis focuses on the summit of OSCE in Astana. Some particulary chosen strategic documents of EU and NATO are analysed in the final part of the thesis. The used methods are above all research, comparison and analysis. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the discussion relating to the European security architecture from the end of the Cold War until the present and to collate it with the real development. Such a comprehensive survey as this one is still missing in the Czech Republic. The thesis claims that the rhetoric used in the strategic documents of the particular organizations that constitute the pillar of the European security do not restrain from creating the working European security architecture. Though the different point of view on the concrete problems is questionable. It was found that a really working pan-European security architecture has not been created because the Russian Federation was not included and the european security is provided only by NATO and by EU.

The diploma thesis concerns with issues of the hunt as a part of the nobleman representation and its image in facilities of the Czech hunting chateaus. The introductory chapters of this these describe the phenomena of hunt, its evolution and its image in fine art. These chapters are subsequently filled in iconographical drafts, which helped to form the shape of the decoration of chateaus. The core of the thesis are chapters concern with theme of the hunting architecture and artistic evaluation of the group nobleman hunting residences. Specifically, these are chateaus Svaty Hubert, Humprecht, Diana, Ohrada and Kozel. In the final chapters the author introduces an issue of nobleman representation. Into its context he situates the theme of hunt and pieces of fine arts connected with it. These chapters also contain a few examples of the aristocrats who knew how to use the hunt for their personal representation. For illustration is this thesis amended by picture attachment.

Diploma Project - Garden for Disabled deals with creating spaces for people with disabilities from the perspective of landscape architecture . The work is divided into three main parts: Review of Literature ,Examples of Gardens for People with Disabilities in the country and abroad and Designing Part. The first part describes in detail the issue of disability in relation to landscape architecture . First, the topic of people with disabilities is described. This section is an introduction to the world of disabilities , touching on various topics related to disabilities such as law , spatial parameters for disabled or Universal Design. The next section is devoted to the theme Garden and disabled. It describes where and how landscape architekt can apply creating for the disabled. The third part is a detailed description of all the basic types of disability. For each disability is developed characteristics important for understanding the limits and possibilities in the works for the disabled. Furthermore, there are principles for the creation of public spaces and the gardens for the disabled. Examples of Gardens for People with Disabilities in the country and abroad is the part that shows examples of formation for the disabled. There are 3 examples of projects and their implementation: three in the Czech Republic and two from the USA . The representative examples on different topics have been selected. The design part is divided into two parts: Garden of Home for people with disabilities Kvasice : Characteristics and Garden of Home for people with disabilities Kvasice : Study. In the Garden of Home for people with disabilities Kvasice: Characteristics, the features of model object are described in terms of conditions in the area and also in terms of clients DZP Kvasice . In the Garden of Home for people with disabilities Kvasice : The Study, the project of Garden DZP Kvasice is based on facts gathered in the Literature Review and the characteristics of the model object. The proposal seeks to create additional living space for clients DZP Kvasice and provide them with leisure.