Architecture and Environment - Invitation to Panel Discussion
On Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at 7:00 PM, a panel discussion Architecture and Environment will take place at the Brno café Trojka, Dominikánská 9. The evening's guests will be Prof. Ing. arch. Petr Hrůša and Ing. arch. MArch. Jan Kristek, Ph.D. The discussion will be moderated by Ing. Arch. MArch. Jiří Vítek. Will polystyrene save us from global warming? What do John Cage and the phenomenon of silence have in common with a traditional farmstead and an ancient Greek house? The conversation will be about energy-efficient architecture in historical contexts, its roots, and the face architecture takes as a result of energy policies.
Jan Kristek (*1983) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Brno and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is engaged in research and educational activities at Fa-VUT in Brno.
Energy-efficient houses, lifestyle, and heirs of fossil fuel economics
The bright white plaster has become a symbol and expression of the clinical perspective that modernity used to differentiate itself from “the ‘dirt’ and chaos of 19th-century urban life. The term “international style” then referred to the universalism and global aspirations of modernists. Since the 1960s, parallel to the critique of modernity, the ecological movement has developed, appealing instead to “locality,” “uniqueness,” and “tradition.” By incorporating ecological thinking into mass culture, ecology has become a lifestyle constructed around the production of local food, unique culture, traditional building, and potentially the use of traditional materials. If current trends in individual housing can be seen as expressions of this lifestyle, what then does the so-called energy-efficient house represent? What can be found in its “genetic code?”
The History of Anti-Space and Construction Quackery
Petr Hrůša (*1955) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Brno; in the early 1990s, he served as the chief architect of the town of Telč and founded the firm Atelier Brno. In addition to his practice, he focuses on the history of architecture and heritage conservation. He teaches at the Faculty of Architecture at CTU in Prague in the heritage conservation studio and at the Department of Architecture at VŠB in Ostrava. "Regard for the history of architecture is lacking in contemporary architecture, and, as I perceive it, often there is hardly even any architecture at all. It is often, in my view, less or more popularized design of external elements, recently complemented by some certainly justified (as applicable) regard for ecological requirements."
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Jan Kristek (*1983) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Brno and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is engaged in research and educational activities at Fa-VUT in Brno.
Energy-efficient houses, lifestyle, and heirs of fossil fuel economics
The bright white plaster has become a symbol and expression of the clinical perspective that modernity used to differentiate itself from “the ‘dirt’ and chaos of 19th-century urban life. The term “international style” then referred to the universalism and global aspirations of modernists. Since the 1960s, parallel to the critique of modernity, the ecological movement has developed, appealing instead to “locality,” “uniqueness,” and “tradition.” By incorporating ecological thinking into mass culture, ecology has become a lifestyle constructed around the production of local food, unique culture, traditional building, and potentially the use of traditional materials. If current trends in individual housing can be seen as expressions of this lifestyle, what then does the so-called energy-efficient house represent? What can be found in its “genetic code?”
The History of Anti-Space and Construction Quackery
Petr Hrůša (*1955) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Brno; in the early 1990s, he served as the chief architect of the town of Telč and founded the firm Atelier Brno. In addition to his practice, he focuses on the history of architecture and heritage conservation. He teaches at the Faculty of Architecture at CTU in Prague in the heritage conservation studio and at the Department of Architecture at VŠB in Ostrava. "Regard for the history of architecture is lacking in contemporary architecture, and, as I perceive it, often there is hardly even any architecture at all. It is often, in my view, less or more popularized design of external elements, recently complemented by some certainly justified (as applicable) regard for ecological requirements."
More information >
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