The conclusion of Jan Bočan's exhibition at GJF will be complemented by guided tours

A rare opportunity to get to know in more detail the work and life journey of Jan Bočan, one of our best architects and educators of recent decades, is available to those interested in contemporary architecture shortly before the end of his comprehensive exhibition. Within the framework of two guided tours, their guides through the cohesive and, for many, enlightening exhibition will be exceptionally qualified individuals – Bočan's long-term closest collaborators and authors of the exhibition, architects Zdeněk Rothbauer and Jakub Koňata.

On Saturday, January 19 at 3:00 PM and on Thursday, January 24 at 6:00 PM, they will present the buildings and competition projects they worked on alongside Jan Bočan – Zdeněk Rothbauer is a co-author of, for example, the implementations of the embassy in Stockholm and the Diplomatic Quarter in Troja. Their collaboration lasted two decades, and they served as educators at the FA ČVUT for ten years. His younger colleague Jakub Koňata designed buildings from recent years with Jan Bočan, such as the embassy in Tbilisi. At the same time, he was Bočan's assistant in the studio at the Faculty of Architecture.

The guided tours are free and require no reservation; interested parties only pay the regular admission fee to the gallery. The exhibition itself will be accessible only until January 27, 2013.

Prague's Main Train Station, the Czechoslovak or Czech embassies in London, Tbilisi, or Stockholm, are just a few buildings that have made Jan Bočan (1937-2010) famous at home and perhaps even more so abroad. An architect who maintained a high standard of modernity, originality, and quality of both the whole and the details even during the grey era of normalization, he is valued by the global expert community as one of the most interesting architects of his time. His pedagogical work was also fundamental: students and graduates of his studio at the Faculty of Architecture of ČVUT still rank among the most successful and sought-after creators.

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