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

  1. Prehistoric construction in Poland in light of archaeology and historical science.
  2. New types and forms of buildings in early medieval architecture: palatium, stronghold church, basilica.
  3. Features of medieval defensive architecture: castles and city fortifications.
  4. Religious and secular Gothic architecture, new technologies, materials, and spatial solutions.
  5. Renaissance, Renaissance in Poland, ideological programme of a temple, a residence, and an ideal city.
  6. Evolution of architectural form from Baroque to Historicism.
  7. Architecture and arts of ancient Greece and Rome and their influence on the European culture.
  8. Basic urban model of the city in ancient cultures.
  9. Spatial development of Cracow in the Middle Ages.
  10. Zamość – the greatest urban planning masterpiece of Polish Renaissance.
  11. French school of Baroque and its influence on the world’s urban planning.
  12. Main directions of urban planning development in the 19th century: in Europe and in Poland.
  13. New British and French cities.
  14. Organic and defined urban layouts.
  15. The Athens Charter – issues relating to urban planning.
  16. Modernist city, post-modernist city, contemporary city.
  17. Directions in urban planning: Garden City Movement, City Beautiful Movement, New Urbanism.
  18. Monument conservation in the 19th and 20th century.
  19. The Venice Charter and the beginnings of the modern doctrine of monument protection.
  20. Reconstruction of historical buildings and complexes upon the example of post-war reconstruction of Polish and European cities.
  21. The theory of values vs. the problem of contemporary utilisation of a historical building.
  22. Cultural heritage protection as a new paradigm for sustainable development.
  23. Characterise creative tendencies in architecture at the turn of the 20th century. Minimalist and expressionistic trends.
  24. Polish architecture of the interwar period.
  25. Polish architecture after World War II – 1945-1990.
  26. Latest Polish architecture 1990-2018.
  27. Creative trends in architecture in the second half of the 20th century and in the 21st century.
  28. Modernism in architecture in the 20th century.
  29. Postmodernism in European architecture and in the USA – creators and their projects.
  30. Trend of deconstruction in architecture and its main representatives.
  31. Minimalism in architecture at the turn of the 20th century – creators and their projects.
  32. Virtual, parametric, and biomorphic architecture.
  33. Essential similarities and differences between: Architecture of Critical Regionalism, Organic Architecture, and vernacular aspects in architecture.
  34. Symptoms of regionalism in contemporary architecture. Achievements of Scandinavian countries in this respect.
  35. 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.
  36. Laureates of awards for outstanding achievements in the field of architecture (e.g. Pritzker award, Mies van der Rohe award).
  37. Contemporary art centres and their architecture.
  38. New projects of avant-gardepublic utility buildings in Poland over the last 5 years.
  39. The latest implemented projects of culture facilities in Cracow.
  40. Present several adaptations of post-industrial buildings to new functions in Poland.
  41. Analyse selected adaptations to new functions of post-industrial buildings and areas in Europe.
  42. Adaptationsto contemporary functions of historical buildings from different periods.
  43. Polish religious architecture after World War II.
  44. Architectural projects in the Far East in the 21st century.
  45. The best known stained glass windows in the world: authors and realisations.
  46. Suprematism and its associations with architecture.
  47. StanisławWitkiewicz and StanisławIgnacyWitkiewicz. Fields of their creative work.
  48. Creative work of selected artists and architects – graduates and academics from the Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology.
  49. Art Nouveau realisations.
  50. Contemporary sculptors in the world, in Poland, and in Cracow and their works.
  51. Architects known for their drawing works.
  52. Creators of the painting perspective.
  53. “Urban motivations”, “architectural pretexts” – in designing architecture.
  54. The Ten Books on Architecture by M.P. Vitruvius and principles of the Vitruvian triad in different styles and creative trends.
  55. Modernism of the 1st half of the 20th century – De Stijl, Bauhaus – concepts, creators.
  56. Le Corbusier’s ideas: 5 principles, “machine for living”, béton brut, Modulor.
  57. Forms of single- and multi-family residential architecture: types and forms.
  58. Principles of designing foundations and underground parts of buildings.
  59. Building partitions and their structural and environmental function.
  60. Low-energy and unconventional structural systems of buildings.
  61. Structures of roofs and flat roofs.
  62. Innovative technical solutions of metal and wooden structures.
  63. Innovative technical solutions of concrete and reinforced concrete structures.
  64. Structures and materials of large-span coverings.
  65. Light elevation technologies.
  66. Installations in the building – elements, types, designing rules in buildings of different functions and constitution.
  67. Explain the mechanism of passive energy harvesting in buildings.
  68. Methods of limiting heat losses in buildings.
  69. Energy balance of buildings – analysis of heat gains and losses in the aspect of contemporary heating systems.
  70. Examples of solutions of problems relating to energy efficiency in tall buildings in Europe.
  71. Renewable energy as energy security of settlement complexes.
  72. Principles of fire protection of buildings.
  73. Horizontal and vertical access systems; emergency routes.
  74. Universal design – barriers levelling design.
  75. Ergonomics – up-to-date definition, objectives and tasks, methods of achieving the sense of physical, psychological, and social well-being.
  76. Acoustics in urban planning and architecture – recommended sound levels in rooms, noise and vibration protection.
  77. Illumination of interiors, rooms, and workstations – aspects of light quantity, colour, and beam cone, as well as obtaining different light effects.
  78. Functional zones in horizontal zoning of industrial plants.
  79. Types of office work spaces – advantages and disadvantages, work environment, application guidelines.
  80. Principles of building audiences (in sports facilities and entertainment centres) in compliance with the visibility graph and safety principles.
  81. 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.
  82. The pattern language of Christopher Alexander as a designing method.
  83. Urban space – negative and positive. Space of a modern city and space of a modernist housing estate.
  84. Role of the urban analysis in the design methodology, urban morphology.
  85. Urban form – its structure and perception.
  86. Urban composition – theory (K. Lynch, K. Wejchert, and others) and practice.
  87. Sustainable development and principles of sustainable design in architecture: theory and practice.
  88. Sustainable housing environment: features and examples of realisations.
  89. Tendencies in moulding the contemporary urban living environment: comfort of use, spatial comfort, climatic comfort, acoustic comfort.
  90. Programme of the equipment accompanying residential architecture – contemporary tendencies.
  91. Spatial composition of the development of contemporary housing estates and complexes – insolation of buildings / apartments / open spaces.
  92. Meaning of greenery in the composition – at the scale of the city and of the housing complex.
  93. Contemporary traffic management systems in residential areas, parking, garages, public transport, individual transport; walking routes and cycling lanes.
  94. Tendencies in the shaping of the contemporary urban housing environment: urban-planning standards: plot ratio; population density.
  95. Tendencies in the shaping of the contemporary urban housing environment: housing standards: basic requirements; principles of shaping of forms and functions.
  96. Neighbourhood and public spaces in residential areas.
  97. Role of public transport in shaping of cities and building complexes.
  98. Exurbanisation / urban sprawl – spatial and transport-related issues – including the problem of traffic management in low-intensity suburban single-family housing.
  99. Goals and methods of introducing traffic calming zones in urban areas.
  100. The most important international legal documents relating to environmental protection and sustainable development.
  101. Significance of sustainable development and spatial order in city design and planning, methods of regulating spatial order in planning documents.
  102. Architectural and urban-planning measures of securing sustainable development of the city.
  103. Spatial consequences resulting from the planning documents in force in Poland (study of spatial development conditions and directions, local spatial development plan, administrative decision).
  104. 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.
  105. Types of conflicts occurring in the city possible to be alleviated and eliminated in spatial development plans.
  106. Principles of locating different service functions in the city (commerce, craftsmanship, health, leisure, sports, technopolis) and requirements relating to the corresponding land development.
  107. Definitions of terms relating to urbanisation of areas (city, agglomeration, conurbation, bipolar layouts, growth poles, etc.).
  108. Spatial, social, economic consequences of the spread of cities.
  109. Form and function of green areas in the city and their effect on the climate of the city.
  110. Types of cities of the future – eco-city, intelligent city, smart city – similarities and differences.
  111. Needs and consequences of contemporary changes in the city – deglomeration, revitalisation, extension.
  112. List legal conditions relating to location and subsequent elements of the investment process, e.g. of your diploma design.
  113. List the basic elements of an urban interior.
  114. Methods of integration of the urban space.
  115. Legal instruments for landscape shaping in Poland.
  116. Economic aspects of protection and creation of landscape assets.
  117. Meaning of the term “rural planning”.
  118. Historical socioeconomic factors shaping the structure of rural areas since medieval locations through the state-managed Polish colonisation in the interwar period.
  119. Rural development features native for selected cultural regions.
  120. Contemporary socioeconomic factors shaping the space and architecture of rural areas and their effect on the dispersion of settlements on the areas presented.
  121. Urban vertical farm – definitions and examples of theoretical solutions and implemented projects.