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⇑History of Architecture and Monument Conservation at ČVUT

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: humanities

University website: www.cvut.cz

Years of study: 4

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.

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Conservation

Conservation is the preservation or efficient use of resources (in an efficient or ethical manner), or the conservation of various quantities under physical laws.

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History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Scholars who write about history are called historians.

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Architecture

‘Architecture’ may at first appear to be a more fixed and finite term. It has a threedimensional, tangible, useable form. But questions remain about what can be considered architecture and what cannot, and by this I mean that we usually understand architecture to incorporate aesthetic as well as functional consideration into its structure. Anything that does not fall into this category can be described as ‘just a building’. This may seem too simple. Can architecture be determined solely by the use of refined architectural style – high or polite architecture instead of vernacular?

Dana Arnold, Reading Architectural History (2002), Ch. 1 : Reading the past : What is architectural history?

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History

The greater part of what passes for diplomatic history is little more than the record of what one clerk said to another clerk.

G. M. Young, Victorian England: Portrait of an Age (1936)

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History

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

W. H. Auden, The Dyers Hand, "D.H. Lawrence" (1962)

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