Virtual course in Spanish
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Virtual course in Spanish
Recorded videos, you can watch them when it suits you
Regular updates
Access for one academic year
It is often possible to study and visit examples of ancestral sacred architecture, and feel a sense of its magic, its symbolic power and its spatial richness. All this may lead us to think that there are no means of achieving such magnificent art today.
This course will highlight a line of transcendent inspiration that runs throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
We will find a common thread that begins with material from the craftsmen’s guilds, which Viollet-le-Duc made use of to restore a significant number of mediaeval French buildings, and continues with the ideas of Utopian Socialismand the Arts & Crafts movement. We will consider the important role played in this process by Antoni Gaudí,Art Nouveau and the development of the Bauhaus,completing our overview with a look at the prolific work of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Who is the course for?
People interested in architecture and art: no previous training is required. With this course we will provide you with a specific vision to the practice of Modern Sacred Architecture.
Students and postgraduates:
we will provide you with alternative data for the academic discussion of architectural movements with a strong symbolic element.
Professionals and freelancers: we will expand your view of the last few centures and consider how history can be studied from a humanistic perspective, different from the ‘official’ history.
Course format
4 modules
18 videosof 20min approx.
Total time needed for the course:16h
Additional resources (websites, videos, reading material)
Teaching material available
Course completion certificate
What will you learn?
1. Overview of the history of architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries.
2. Detailed study of the most outstanding exponents of modern sacred architecture
3. You will discover tools of sacred architecture that can be applied to contemporary design.
Stages of learning
Course contents
Module 1
Mysticism in Contemporary Architecture
The French restoration led by Viollet-le-Duc and the flowering of the British Arts & Crafts movement with Morris and Mackintosh.
1. 1- Conceptual framework of the course. Historical context. The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century
1.2- Positivism and speculative fraternities
1.3- The French Restoration. The role of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
1.4- Le-Duc and the love for the Gothic. Pedagogic interventions
1.5- Decline of the Tour de France of the Builder Companions
1.6- The re-imagining of history and the symbolic reinterpretation of Notre Dame de Paris
1.7- The Utopian Socialists and the defence of discipleship through the Arts & Craft movement
1.8- Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art
Module 2
Mystical influences in Contemporary Architecture
Mystical influences in Rudolf Steiner and analysis of the work of Antoni Gaudí
Module 3
The revolution in form
The revolution in form in Art Nouveau, the Werbund and the creation of the Bauhaus.
Module 4
Contemporary Traces of Sacred Architecture
The prolific work of Frank Lloyd Wright, his school of discipleship - Conclusions of the course
About the lecturer
Degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of the Republic, Uruguay. A lecturer in visual arts accredited by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay. A painter and sculptor. Director of the Da Vinci Cultural Centre in Uruguay. An active collaborator of the Fidias International Institute of Architecture and Visual Arts.
121 €
109 €
Access to the course will be available on your profile for one academic year
Access to the course will be available on your profile for one academic year
FAQs
The course will be available for one academic year. Follow the course at your own pace.
By entering the “Virtual Campus” menu. The username and password are the same as you entered when you purchased the course. If you can’t remember them, you can click on the link “Forgotten your username or password?” and follow the instructions.
Certificate
Once you have finished the course we will provide you with a certificate stating that you have completed the programme of study.
