EDITORS  Klára Pučerová, Petr Kratochvíl, Dan Merta, Petra Vlachynská TEXTS Petr Kratochvíl, Petra Vlachynská, Ludvík Hlaváček, Dan Merta, Denisa Václavová, Radoslava Schmelzová, Marie Foltýnová, Radek Horáček, Tomáš Knoflíček, Kateřina Kostková, Klára Pučerová LANGUAGE EDITORS  Jana Palacká, Klára Pučerová (CZ) INDEX  Hana Sedláčková TRANSLATION  Rani Tolimat, Tomáš Tolimat, Vít Zelenka GRAPHIC DESIGN  Anna Gutová, Richard Vojtěch PRE-PRESS OF IMAGES  Roman Souček PRINT  Akontext, ...

The exhibition is carried out under the patronage of Minister for European Affairs, Associate Professor Mikuláš Bek, Ph.D.   The exhibition presents the integration of art in the public space since the late 1960s. At that time, art left galleries and museums worldwide, and started creating new visual and social connections in the broader context of landscape and urban planning, within the discussion on the quality of public space in urban agglomerations. This project maps the "Czech situation" from the normalization era ...

guided tour (in Czech) start: in front of Palace Chicago (Národní třída) at 2 pm

report by Czech TV   Commissioned by University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), the United States Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2021) brought unprecedented attention to wood-framed construction in American architecture, which had been largely overlooked by historical and contemporary discourse. This spring, UIC Faculty and Co-Curators Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner continue to explore the ubiquity and aesthetic power of this architectural element in three new iterations ...

BOOK LAUNCH LECTURE BY LAURA J. PADGETT In this lecture Laura J. Padgett will speak about how she approaches her work and how she understands photography and its possible uses. She will concentrate on three bodies of work: her photographs of Haus Zumthor for “Thinking Architecture”, her book “Space over Time” and her most recent photographic series “Regenerating Permanence”, thereby respecting the different conditions of beginning the work to its production to its outcome. She will consider how we speak about photography and ...

accompanying program of the exhibition about the work of J. J. Polívka (in Czech)

Spolu se společností Halla Vás zveme na debatu s autory českého pavilonu na Expo 2020 v Dubaji architekty Jindřichem Ráftlem a Janem Tůmou z ateliéru JinJan. Představí celkovou koncepci pavilonu a celou cestu od první skicy až po dokončení realizace pavilonu na dubajském výstavišti, kterému se budou také věnovat.  A můžete se těšit na představení jejich výběru 10 nejzajímavějších pavilonů! Studio JinJan vzniklo spojením ateliérů Formosa AA s R/FRM ve kterých oba architekti dříve působili. ...

Jaroslav Josef Polívka (1886–1960) is a forgotten figure of the Czech and the global building culture of the 20 th century. Only recently he has been rediscovered as a close associate of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the founder of modern American architecture. Polívka’s talent for pushing the technical limits of building structures as well as a natural ability to connect people have significantly contributed to building both European and Czech modern avant-garde architecture. He brought an unprecedented degree of visionariness and ...

presentation of the exhbition from 2020  

In a situation impacted by demolitions and the physical deterioration of industrial objects and by the pressure to demolish and to free up land for new construction but one in which also there has been increasing recognition over the years of other values –   the meaning of a place the remarkable qualities of form the aim of the new programme,   the architecture of conversions represents the consequence and outcome of a search for the right starting points, finding a balance between heritage protection, new ...