Architect in Practice 2023: Jan Tyrpekl - Lecture at FA VUT

As part of the lecture series Architect in Practice, nine creators will gradually present their works at the FA VUT during the winter semester, works that were created under challenging conditions, with a limited budget, and primarily with their own hands. In today's inflated real estate bubble, where many middle-income households cannot afford a mortgage, self-building can be not only a way to achieve affordable construction but also, for budding architects, primarily a means to thoroughly get to know their future profession, learn the craft, understand the properties of materials, anticipate the behavior of structures, and gain many other practical experiences that cannot be acquired otherwise than through direct experience.

Jan Tyrpekl (*1986) graduated in architecture from FUA TUL (2005-13), completed an internship at the Copenhagen office of Henning Larsen (2010), AMP Arquitectos in Tenerife (2011), and C-LAB in Helsinki (2012), worked in Czech studios (FAM, M1, třiarchitekti), gained experience in the studio of Marco Casagrande, with whom he contributed to teaching at Aalto University in Helsinki and to the realization of wooden structures around the world. Since 2014, he has been leading his own studio focused on low-cost self-built objects and is concurrently a PhD candidate at FUA TUL in Liberec.

We emphasize simplicity, clear concepts, and, last but not least, the final cost of the work. We provide complete project documentation. For clients with a construction intention, we offer services from land selection and considerations of its use, through the development of building studies or feasibility studies, zoning and construction documentation, execution documentation, to authorial and technical supervision of the construction and securing the building's occupancy permit.

The lecture will take place on Tuesday, October 31, 2023, at 5:00 PM in hall A310 at the FA VUT in Brno.

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