Graphic statics in Czech historical lands (from the second half of the 19th Century to the early 20th Century)

The project is a double-degree project contracted between the Czech Technical University in Prague and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne. The project of graphic statics is studying hitherto little explored part of Czech technical history, in which the Czech lands were developmentally comparable, if not in advance, with other technologically advanced countries in Europe and North America. Attention is focused mainly on personalities of the Czech part of the Prague Polytechnic, namely Professor Vilém Bukovský and Professor Josef Solin. Currently, this project has a very interesting and topical overlap, it is intended as a basis for a new approach to teaching structural mechanics to students of architecture and design at the Faculty of Architecture, CTU in Prague. This concept is inspired by technical education of architects at the School of Architecture at MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston/Cambridge, USA, and ETH - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland, where visually perceived graphic statics is advantageously applied as a very illustrative teaching method of structural mechanics to non-technically oriented students.