Appendix to the Resolution of the Faculty of Architecture No. 4/d/06/2017 dated 21 June 2017.
QUESTIONS TO THE M.SC. DIPLOMA EXAMINATION
FOR THE MAJOR “ARCHITECTURE” AT THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
- Prehistoric construction in Poland in light of archaeology and historical science.
- New types and forms of buildings in early medieval architecture: palatium, stronghold church, basilica.
- Features of medieval defensive architecture: castles and city fortifications.
- Religious and secular Gothic architecture, new technologies, materials, and spatial solutions.
- Renaissance, Renaissance in Poland, ideological programme of a temple, a residence, and an ideal city.
- Evolution of architectural form from Baroque to Historicism.
- Architecture and arts of ancient Greece and Rome and their influence on the European culture.
- Basic urban model of the city in ancient cultures.
- Spatial development of Cracow in the Middle Ages.
- Zamość – the greatest urban planning masterpiece of Polish Renaissance.
- French school of Baroque and its influence on the world’s urban planning.
- Main directions of urban planning development in the 19th century: in Europe and in Poland.
- New British and French cities.
- Organic and defined urban layouts.
- The Athens Charter – issues relating to urban planning.
- Modernist city, post-modernist city, contemporary city.
- Directions in urban planning: Garden City Movement, City Beautiful Movement, New Urbanism.
- Monument conservation in the 19th and 20th century.
- The Venice Charter and the beginnings of the modern doctrine of monument protection.
- Reconstruction of historical buildings and complexes upon the example of post-war reconstruction of Polish and European cities.
- The theory of values vs. the problem of contemporary utilisation of a historical building.
- Cultural heritage protection as a new paradigm for sustainable development.
- Characterise creative tendencies in architecture at the turn of the 20th century. Minimalist and expressionistic trends.
- Polish architecture of the interwar period.
- Polish architecture after World War II – 1945-1990.
- Latest Polish architecture 1990-2018.
- Creative trends in architecture in the second half of the 20th century and in the 21st century.
- Modernism in architecture in the 20th century.
- Postmodernism in European architecture and in the USA – creators and their projects.
- Trend of deconstruction in architecture and its main representatives.
- Minimalism in architecture at the turn of the 20th century – creators and their projects.
- Virtual, parametric, and biomorphic architecture.
- Essential similarities and differences between: Architecture of Critical Regionalism, Organic Architecture, and vernacular aspects in architecture.
- Symptoms of regionalism in contemporary architecture. Achievements of Scandinavian countries in this respect.
- Creative trends and dominating tendencies in the aesthetic-sensory formation of the architecture of office buildings and complexes. Distinguished designers, their designs and implemented projects.
- Laureates of awards for outstanding achievements in the field of architecture (e.g. Pritzker award, Mies van der Rohe award).
- Contemporary art centres and their architecture.
- New projects of avant-gardepublic utility buildings in Poland over the last 5 years.
- The latest implemented projects of culture facilities in Cracow.
- Present several adaptations of post-industrial buildings to new functions in Poland.
- Analyse selected adaptations to new functions of post-industrial buildings and areas in Europe.
- Adaptationsto contemporary functions of historical buildings from different periods.
- Polish religious architecture after World War II.
- Architectural projects in the Far East in the 21st century.
- The best known stained glass windows in the world: authors and realisations.
- Suprematism and its associations with architecture.
- StanisławWitkiewicz and StanisławIgnacyWitkiewicz. Fields of their creative work.
- Creative work of selected artists and architects – graduates and academics from the Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology.
- Art Nouveau realisations.
- Contemporary sculptors in the world, in Poland, and in Cracow and their works.
- Architects known for their drawing works.
- Creators of the painting perspective.
- “Urban motivations”, “architectural pretexts” – in designing architecture.
- The Ten Books on Architecture by M.P. Vitruvius and principles of the Vitruvian triad in different styles and creative trends.
- Modernism of the 1st half of the 20th century – De Stijl, Bauhaus – concepts, creators.
- Le Corbusier’s ideas: 5 principles, “machine for living”, béton brut, Modulor.
- Forms of single- and multi-family residential architecture: types and forms.
- Principles of designing foundations and underground parts of buildings.
- Building partitions and their structural and environmental function.
- Low-energy and unconventional structural systems of buildings.
- Structures of roofs and flat roofs.
- Innovative technical solutions of metal and wooden structures.
- Innovative technical solutions of concrete and reinforced concrete structures.
- Structures and materials of large-span coverings.
- Light elevation technologies.
- Installations in the building – elements, types, designing rules in buildings of different functions and constitution.
- Explain the mechanism of passive energy harvesting in buildings.
- Methods of limiting heat losses in buildings.
- Energy balance of buildings – analysis of heat gains and losses in the aspect of contemporary heating systems.
- Examples of solutions of problems relating to energy efficiency in tall buildings in Europe.
- Renewable energy as energy security of settlement complexes.
- Principles of fire protection of buildings.
- Horizontal and vertical access systems; emergency routes.
- Universal design – barriers levelling design.
- Ergonomics – up-to-date definition, objectives and tasks, methods of achieving the sense of physical, psychological, and social well-being.
- Acoustics in urban planning and architecture – recommended sound levels in rooms, noise and vibration protection.
- Illumination of interiors, rooms, and workstations – aspects of light quantity, colour, and beam cone, as well as obtaining different light effects.
- Functional zones in horizontal zoning of industrial plants.
- Types of office work spaces – advantages and disadvantages, work environment, application guidelines.
- Principles of building audiences (in sports facilities and entertainment centres) in compliance with the visibility graph and safety principles.
- JuliuszŻórawski’s form building theory – weak and strong forms, cohesive and free forms, creation of rhythms, reforming, tendencies in the perception of form and place, formally important elements.
- The pattern language of Christopher Alexander as a designing method.
- Urban space – negative and positive. Space of a modern city and space of a modernist housing estate.
- Role of the urban analysis in the design methodology, urban morphology.
- Urban form – its structure and perception.
- Urban composition – theory (K. Lynch, K. Wejchert, and others) and practice.
- Sustainable development and principles of sustainable design in architecture: theory and practice.
- Sustainable housing environment: features and examples of realisations.
- Tendencies in moulding the contemporary urban living environment: comfort of use, spatial comfort, climatic comfort, acoustic comfort.
- Programme of the equipment accompanying residential architecture – contemporary tendencies.
- Spatial composition of the development of contemporary housing estates and complexes – insolation of buildings / apartments / open spaces.
- Meaning of greenery in the composition – at the scale of the city and of the housing complex.
- Contemporary traffic management systems in residential areas, parking, garages, public transport, individual transport; walking routes and cycling lanes.
- Tendencies in the shaping of the contemporary urban housing environment: urban-planning standards: plot ratio; population density.
- Tendencies in the shaping of the contemporary urban housing environment: housing standards: basic requirements; principles of shaping of forms and functions.
- Neighbourhood and public spaces in residential areas.
- Role of public transport in shaping of cities and building complexes.
- Exurbanisation / urban sprawl – spatial and transport-related issues – including the problem of traffic management in low-intensity suburban single-family housing.
- Goals and methods of introducing traffic calming zones in urban areas.
- The most important international legal documents relating to environmental protection and sustainable development.
- Significance of sustainable development and spatial order in city design and planning, methods of regulating spatial order in planning documents.
- Architectural and urban-planning measures of securing sustainable development of the city.
- Spatial consequences resulting from the planning documents in force in Poland (study of spatial development conditions and directions, local spatial development plan, administrative decision).
- Principles of the spatial planning system in Poland, types of planning documents in force in Poland and their role and significance in the spatial development process.
- Types of conflicts occurring in the city possible to be alleviated and eliminated in spatial development plans.
- Principles of locating different service functions in the city (commerce, craftsmanship, health, leisure, sports, technopolis) and requirements relating to the corresponding land development.
- Definitions of terms relating to urbanisation of areas (city, agglomeration, conurbation, bipolar layouts, growth poles, etc.).
- Spatial, social, economic consequences of the spread of cities.
- Form and function of green areas in the city and their effect on the climate of the city.
- Types of cities of the future – eco-city, intelligent city, smart city – similarities and differences.
- Needs and consequences of contemporary changes in the city – deglomeration, revitalisation, extension.
- List legal conditions relating to location and subsequent elements of the investment process, e.g. of your diploma design.
- List the basic elements of an urban interior.
- Methods of integration of the urban space.
- Legal instruments for landscape shaping in Poland.
- Economic aspects of protection and creation of landscape assets.
- Meaning of the term “rural planning”.
- Historical socioeconomic factors shaping the structure of rural areas since medieval locations through the state-managed Polish colonisation in the interwar period.
- Rural development features native for selected cultural regions.
- Contemporary socioeconomic factors shaping the space and architecture of rural areas and their effect on the dispersion of settlements on the areas presented.
- Urban vertical farm – definitions and examples of theoretical solutions and implemented projects.