<p>Architect Miroslav Řepa celebrated his 90th birthday</p>

Prague – Architect Miroslav Řepa, who will celebrate his 90th birthday on February 24, is the author or co-author of Czechoslovak pavilions at the World Expositions Expo 1967 and 1970. He was also the technical director of the pavilion at the Expo in Seville in 1992. Among other things, he participated in the reconstruction of the National and Estates Theaters in Prague and the theater in Pardubice. Together with his father Karel Řepa, they are the authors of the project for the City Theater in Zlín.

A native of Pardubice (1930), he studied at the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Prague (1953). He was then admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1958). After finishing his studies, he briefly collaborated with his father. Řepa gained experience as a designer at the Military Design Institute in Pardubice, later at the Regional Design Institute in Zlín, where he worked until 1961.

Řepa also successfully engaged in exhibition activities. In 1993, the Administration of Prague Castle invited him to curate an exhibition of Slovenian architect Josip Plečnik, later transferred to other cities around the world (one of Plečnik's students was Karel Řepa, who designed several buildings in Pardubice, including the railway station). Subsequently, Miroslav Řepa was appointed the chief curator of the unique exhibition Ten Centuries of Architecture in the castle complex.

In 2015, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Association of Architects.