The discipline aims at mastering architectural and design skills in building design in a specific environment, saturated with unique contemporary and historical phenomena, the latter being considered in the wider context of the notion of cultural heritage - movable and immovable material heritage, intangible heritage, natural heritage.
Courses
Architecture and Context
Major: Architecture
Architecture and Context aims at forming a conscious personal way of thinking in the approach to the architectural environment in the architectural design process.
Architecture and Interpretation
Major: Architecture
The discipline concerns architectural phenomena and problems arising from them, which are considered through the focus of architectural interpretation. The topics in the course will try to answer questions related to the role of interpretation in contemporary architectural creativity. The examples and the point of view from which their analysis will be made enter the field of influence of both the theory of architecture and the preservation of cultural heritage. They are focused in the context ...
Bulgarian Postwar and Contemporary Architecture: History and Issues of Preservation for Erasmus students
Major: Architecture
"Bulgarian Postwar and Contemporary Architecture" is an elective course that aims to give students a comprehensive knowledge of the history of Bulgarian architecture between 1944 and 1989 (the period of Bulgarian socialism), and also to trace the transitional period from the last decade of the twentieth century and to analyse the post-socialist attitude towards these architectural traces. The aim and task of this course is also to analyse Bulgarian architecture in a broader global ...
Contemporary Architecture
Major: Architecture
The subject consists of architectural analysis of the most important buildings and architectural schools since World War ІІ.
Cultural Heritage
Major: Urban Planning
This subject acquaints students with the historical and cultural values of the architectural and archaeological heritage in the urban environment. Skills are acquired with respect to methods and techniques for conservation, adaptation and changing of functions of architectural monuments. Knowledge is obtained on the types of the historical and cultural monuments, and a sense of cultural and historical memory of urban spaces is developed.
Cultural Heritage Conservation
Major: Landscape architecture
The discipline aims to form basic knowledge about cultural heritage, its preservation and the opportunities it offers for a better quality of life.
Cultural Heritage Conservation - Pre - Diploma Project I
Major: Architecture
The project aims at developing research skills and skills for management of the relationships in the integrated historic environment.
Cultural Heritage Conservation project
Major: Landscape architecture
Acquiring basic professional knowledge of the work of the landscape architect in relation to the preservation of landscape cultural values, developing practical skills for creativity inspired by the context and with respect to the heritage of landscape architecture in connection with the lecture course (074.00), inculcating a way of thinking and a creative approach to the values of the environment and the spirit of the place.
Cultural Heritage Management – elective course
The discipline aims to form an attitude in the approach and work on projects related to cultural heritage and in particular related to the immovable cultural heritage sites – taking into account their nature and specificity.
Cultural Heritage: Theories and Practices – Specialized Course
Major: Architecture
The discipline deepens professional knowledge by getting into the essence of theories and their strong (two-way) interconnection with practices in the field of cultural (and in particular architectural) heritage conservation.
Fine Arts Techniques
Major: Architecture
The aim of the discipline is to develop the spatial and aesthetic attitude of students to the architectural problems and objects, provided to them for representation. The graphic, artistic and modelling skills, acquired by students, prepare them for their future education in architecture, as well as for adequate presentation of their projects, either graphical (through perspectives) or spatial (through models).
Fundamentals of Architectural Design
Major: Architecture
The course is aimed to initiate students in the profession, acquainting them with the main tasks and problems of the architectural art.
Fundamentals of Architectural Design - exercises
Major: Architecture
In a number of abstract, free-of-function-and-structure compositions students learn:
– form characteristics: size, geometric characteristic;
– form orientation within the environment, light, colour, texture, fretwork and transparency;
– graphic techniques, appropriate for use in architectural drawing.
Fundamentals of Architectural Design - practical training
Major: Architecture
It is aimed at acquainting students with real architectural projects, whose situational, functional, structural and aesthetic solution is analyzed together with the lecturer. At the end of the training, every student is going to present in writing an independent analysis of a building chosen by him/her.
Fundamentals of Architectural Design - Project I
Major: Architecture
Two groups of coursework are made.
Fundamentals of Architectural Design - Project II
Major: Architecture
With the help of two courseworks the skills for working out architectural drawings are consolidated and first steps are made in the direction of independent design.
History of Ancient and Medieval Architecture
Major: Architecture
The discipline presents architecture as a creative and constructive human activity that develops.
History of Architecture
Major: Urban Planning
The module aims at introducing the main periods of historical development of architecture, characteristics of different architectural and aesthetic styles and their relations to the urban development. Learning outcomes: Knowledge of the architectural styles, shaping historical urban environment. Skills of reading historical background of urban forms and structure. Attitude towards historical heritage and the related planning problems.
History of Architecture
Major: Landscape architecture
The aim of the discipline is to present architecture as a creative and creative human activity that develops and is the basis of landscape planning. This is achieved by tracing the history of architecture followed by an analysis of its material expressions – mainly architectural objects that are directly related to the achievements of art of gardens and parks. Their development and realization is traced, in a global aspect, in the context of symbolism, stylistic identity, planning and ...
History of Architecture - practical training
Major: Architecture
The aim of the educational practice is to acquire skills and develop abilities to research and analyze architectural phenomena and/or objects (structural structures, buildings, facilities, archaeological sites, etc.) that left a lasting mark on European culture during the eras of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the New Age and Modernity, and on this basis a conclusion is formed.
History of Architecture - ХV - ХVІІІ Centuries
Major: Architecture
The course is aimed to students in Architecture. It traces the evolution on a global scale of major architectural styles and trends in the period XV-XVIIIc.
History of Bulgarian Architecture
Major: Architecture
The course is aimed at students in Architecture. It traces the development of architecture in the Bulgarian lands from the earliest prehistoric manifestations of architecturally meaningful activity to the mid-twentieth century.
History of Bulgarian architecture for Erasmus students
Major: Architecture
The course is intended for international students in the Erasmus+ program. It traces the development of architecture in Bulgarian lands from the earliest prehistoric manifestations of architecturally conceived activity to the mid-twentieth century. For each historical period, both the architectural materiality itself and the context in which it was created are analyzed. The course seeks to determine the place of local architectural phenomena within the global architecture —whether they ...
History of Modern Architecture
Major: Architecture
The period between the beginning of the 19th century and the 1960's is thematically covered. The process of emerging and strengthening the position of Architectural Rationalism and the formation of European and American Modernism are discussed. The nature of the most characteristic movements and doctrines up to 1960's is revealed. The work of the most prominent artists with a leading role in the recent history of architecture is described.
Preservation of Architectural Heritage
Major: Architecture
The aim of the discipline is to develop basic knowledge of the problems of preservation of architectural heritage; to suggest a way of thinking in the approach to the valuable architectural environment in the process of architectural art. The types of cultural monuments and their legal protection within the national preservation system are discussed. The historic evolution of the ideas of continuity is presented. The approaches to preservation of the architectural heritage on different levels: ...
Preservation of Historical Settlements and Regions - Pre - Diploma Project
Major: Architecture
The aim of the pre-diploma project is to develop specialised skills for designing in the urban historical context.
Restoration of Architectural Monuments - Pre - Diploma Project
Major: Architecture
The project aims to acquire basic professional practical knowledge regarding the conservation, restoration and adaptation of an architectural monument, in the work of the architect in connection with the preservation of immovable cultural values.
Restoration of Architectural Monuments - Special Course
Major: Architecture
The course consists of a historical review of the development of the theory of restoration, the modern principles for preservation of the architectural heritage and the related international documents; the methodology of investigation and design for conservation, restoration and adaptation of monuments of architecture; basic knowledge of the polydisciplinary specifics of the activity – structural, climatisation and technological problems in restoration of monuments of architecture.
Society and Heritage: Conservation Culture
Major: Architecture
The discipline aims to develop students' understanding of: architectural heritage; its role and significance in the environment in relation to contemporary social values; the diverse and unique opportunities it offers for a better quality of life.
Theory of Architecture
Major: Architecture
The course lays the foundations of the theoretical and the conceptual rationalization of architecture.
Valuation of Cultural monuments
This discipline allows students to give a meaning to cultural / historical heritage as a specific real estate market share, and to develop professional skills for calculation of their market value according to this specificity. Basic knowledge is acquired on the definitions, legal and institutional system for protection of the cultural monuments in the country, the characteristics of the cultural values, the modern methods of their preservation and the effect of all these factors on the ...
Архитектурата на България през втората половина на XX век: история, оценка, опазване
Major: Architecture
This discipline provides comprehensive knowledge of the history of Bulgarian architecture between 1944 and 1989 (the period of Bulgarian state socialism), explores the transition period of the 1990s and analyzes the post-socialist attitude towards these architectural traces today.