After the Summit: Michaela Janečková and Michal Lehečka
The lecture series thematizing architecture, urbanism, and society in Plzeň and throughout the country in the period of "the end of history" continues under the auspices of the Pěstuj prostor association on Wednesday, November 6, 2019, in the former apartment of the Kraus couple (one of the so-called Loos interiors) with the second part. The guests of the evening, focused on the architecture of housing estates and changes in their perception or demographic structure, will be architectural historian Michaela Janečková and anthropologist Michal Lehečka.
Michaela Janečková, who participated in a discussion in Plzeň at the beginning of October after the screening of several documentaries from the series Architecture of the 1980s, will cover the change in architectural discourse from the 1950s to the 1980s in her lecture titled Housing Estates between Accelerating Modernity and Postmodernity – from scientific acceleration to nostalgia, humor, and fairy tales, using the example of mass housing construction. In her contribution based on the research results of the project Paneláci, she will follow up on a similarly themed lecture delivered in April 2018 at the Applied Arts Museum in Prague.
Michal Lehečka will then present in his talk Panel Housing Estates in the Czech Republic. The Journey from Collectivism to Privatism, emphasizing that socialist modernist cities play an incredibly important role in terms of the urbanism of post-socialist countries and the development of their housing policies. “He will also present the trajectories of changes in panel housing estates over the last approximately forty years and will outline the processes of transforming initial ideas of socialist modernism under the influence of social changes, economic transformation, and privatization after 1989, as well as the changes in the demographic structure of the estates and the development of their public spaces,” states Petr Klíma from the organizing association.
Admission to the event is 70 CZK. The third part of the series After the Velvet Revolution: The Architecture of Plzeň "at the End of History" will take place on Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at 6 p.m. in the university café Družba at Sedláčkova 19 in Plzeň. Historian of architecture Hubert Guzik and sociologist Barbora Vacková will present lectures on the poor reputation of housing estates, ideas about ideal housing after 1989, and the reasons for the preference for family houses.
The series is prepared by the Pěstuj prostor association with the support of the city of Plzeň, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the State Fund for Culture of the Czech Republic, and the Foundation for Czech Architecture. It aims to support and develop the interest of the local professional and broader public in architecture and the built and landscape environment of the city.
Mgr. Ing. arch. Michaela Janečková
Architectural historian, doctoral candidate at UMPRUM. She professionally focuses on post-war architecture. She has worked for the Center for Central European Architecture (CCEA) and currently teaches at UMPRUM and Charles University in Prague in the CIEE program. She has also lectured at ARCHIP (Architectural Institute in Prague). From 2013 to 2017, she participated in the grant project Paneláci (Panel Housing Estates in the Czech Republic as Part of the Urban Living Environment: Evaluation and Presentation of Their Residential Potential).
Mgr. Michal Lehečka
Urban anthropologist. He currently heads the Laboratory for Sustainable Urbanism (LAB) at the AutoMat association. Concurrently, he works as a research worker at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague, aside from the applied research association Anthropictures. His main professional topics are panel housing estates, public space and its commodification, housing policies, gentrification, displacement, and urban infrastructure.
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Michaela Janečková, who participated in a discussion in Plzeň at the beginning of October after the screening of several documentaries from the series Architecture of the 1980s, will cover the change in architectural discourse from the 1950s to the 1980s in her lecture titled Housing Estates between Accelerating Modernity and Postmodernity – from scientific acceleration to nostalgia, humor, and fairy tales, using the example of mass housing construction. In her contribution based on the research results of the project Paneláci, she will follow up on a similarly themed lecture delivered in April 2018 at the Applied Arts Museum in Prague.
Michal Lehečka will then present in his talk Panel Housing Estates in the Czech Republic. The Journey from Collectivism to Privatism, emphasizing that socialist modernist cities play an incredibly important role in terms of the urbanism of post-socialist countries and the development of their housing policies. “He will also present the trajectories of changes in panel housing estates over the last approximately forty years and will outline the processes of transforming initial ideas of socialist modernism under the influence of social changes, economic transformation, and privatization after 1989, as well as the changes in the demographic structure of the estates and the development of their public spaces,” states Petr Klíma from the organizing association.
Admission to the event is 70 CZK. The third part of the series After the Velvet Revolution: The Architecture of Plzeň "at the End of History" will take place on Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at 6 p.m. in the university café Družba at Sedláčkova 19 in Plzeň. Historian of architecture Hubert Guzik and sociologist Barbora Vacková will present lectures on the poor reputation of housing estates, ideas about ideal housing after 1989, and the reasons for the preference for family houses.
The series is prepared by the Pěstuj prostor association with the support of the city of Plzeň, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the State Fund for Culture of the Czech Republic, and the Foundation for Czech Architecture. It aims to support and develop the interest of the local professional and broader public in architecture and the built and landscape environment of the city.
Mgr. Ing. arch. Michaela Janečková
Architectural historian, doctoral candidate at UMPRUM. She professionally focuses on post-war architecture. She has worked for the Center for Central European Architecture (CCEA) and currently teaches at UMPRUM and Charles University in Prague in the CIEE program. She has also lectured at ARCHIP (Architectural Institute in Prague). From 2013 to 2017, she participated in the grant project Paneláci (Panel Housing Estates in the Czech Republic as Part of the Urban Living Environment: Evaluation and Presentation of Their Residential Potential).
Mgr. Michal Lehečka
Urban anthropologist. He currently heads the Laboratory for Sustainable Urbanism (LAB) at the AutoMat association. Concurrently, he works as a research worker at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague, aside from the applied research association Anthropictures. His main professional topics are panel housing estates, public space and its commodification, housing policies, gentrification, displacement, and urban infrastructure.
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