Architectural office TaK celebrates 15 years with a traveling exhibition
starts in the newly opened Werich Villa
The architectural and engineering office TaK is celebrating the 15th anniversary of its founding. Among its portfolio is the reconstruction of the Werich Villa, which will be solemnly opened on June 16, a new building in the Municipal Courtyard in the heart of the Old Town, and the reconstruction of the theater Na Zábradlí. To celebrate the anniversary, it has prepared a traveling exhibition. You can see it for the first time at the Werich Villa from June 29 to July 12.
The Václav Havel Library, the theater Na Zábradlí, the Werich Villa, Masaryk Station, and dozens of other realizations or projects are part of the portfolio of the architectural office TaK, which was founded in 2002. The fifteen years of existence is celebrated with a traveling exhibition, which will take place from June until the end of this year in three selected locations. It is no coincidence that the opening of the exhibition will be on June 28 at the Werich Villa. The studio has also reconstructed that location.
The exhibition shows that the theme of the context of old or historic and contemporary architecture is alive, current, and extraordinarily interesting. Questions of completing, supplementing, or reconstructing historic buildings in connection with the most modern technologies and materials of the 21st century are becoming increasingly relevant in European cities, including Prague. How to blend the old with the new? How to preserve the historical value of a building while reconstructing it for today's use? The exhibition of the TaK studio answers not only these questions.
“The exhibition that we are commemorating the 15th anniversary of is not a classic profile exhibition, but a thematically focused selection of our projects that have been realized or are being prepared in Prague and its surroundings, with the common denominator being the context of historic or existing architecture and its completion or supplementation. Very often, these are works on the premises of monuments or in Prague's UNESCO heritage reserve,” says architect and founder of the studio Marek Tichý about the exhibition.
A guidebook with a map of Prague is being created for the exhibition, which will lead you through the most interesting realizations of the studio. You will thus be able to wander through well-known and unknown places that demonstrate how beautiful and rich the layered Prague architecture has been over the centuries.
The exhibition at the Werich Villa is accessible for free from June 29 to July 12, will move to the Municipal Courtyard in the Old Town in September, and in November to the newly opened theater Na Zábradlí.
The Václav Havel Library, the theater Na Zábradlí, the Werich Villa, Masaryk Station, and dozens of other realizations or projects are part of the portfolio of the architectural office TaK, which was founded in 2002. The fifteen years of existence is celebrated with a traveling exhibition, which will take place from June until the end of this year in three selected locations. It is no coincidence that the opening of the exhibition will be on June 28 at the Werich Villa. The studio has also reconstructed that location.
The exhibition shows that the theme of the context of old or historic and contemporary architecture is alive, current, and extraordinarily interesting. Questions of completing, supplementing, or reconstructing historic buildings in connection with the most modern technologies and materials of the 21st century are becoming increasingly relevant in European cities, including Prague. How to blend the old with the new? How to preserve the historical value of a building while reconstructing it for today's use? The exhibition of the TaK studio answers not only these questions.
“The exhibition that we are commemorating the 15th anniversary of is not a classic profile exhibition, but a thematically focused selection of our projects that have been realized or are being prepared in Prague and its surroundings, with the common denominator being the context of historic or existing architecture and its completion or supplementation. Very often, these are works on the premises of monuments or in Prague's UNESCO heritage reserve,” says architect and founder of the studio Marek Tichý about the exhibition.
A guidebook with a map of Prague is being created for the exhibition, which will lead you through the most interesting realizations of the studio. You will thus be able to wander through well-known and unknown places that demonstrate how beautiful and rich the layered Prague architecture has been over the centuries.
The exhibition at the Werich Villa is accessible for free from June 29 to July 12, will move to the Municipal Courtyard in the Old Town in September, and in November to the newly opened theater Na Zábradlí.
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