At the Architecture Biennale, Ivan Kroupa will represent the Czech Republic and Slovakia

PRAGUE - At the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which will take place in the Italian city on the lagoon from September to November next year, the Czech and Slovak Republics will be represented by the studio Ivan Kroupa's office. Petra Jungwirthová from the National Gallery in Prague, who was tasked with preparing the exhibition in the joint pavilion, informed ČTK.
The pavilion for the exhibitions is common for Czech and Slovak participants, just as it is at the more well-known biennale of contemporary art. This biennale occurs in odd years, while architecture is on the program in even years.
The international architecture exhibition in Venice will take place next year for the tenth time, while the contemporary art biennale was held this year for the fifty-first time - its tradition is more than a century old.
The National Gallery announced a selection procedure in October for the project that will be exhibited in the pavilion. It invited architects working at 11 universities where architecture is studied in the Czech and Slovak Republics. The main theme of the architectural biennale is Meta-City.
A total of 12 submissions came from three architectural schools in the Czech Republic (the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University in Liberec, and the AAAD) and two in Slovakia (the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and the Faculty of Arts at the Technical University in Košice). The jury decided that the project by the architectural studio Ivan Kroupa Architekti and the Studio of Ivan Kroupa at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University will be installed in Venice.
All projects that participated in the selection procedure will be published in early 2006 in the magazines Architect and Arch o architektúre.