Blue Lecture Series - Imro Vaško

The lecture series BLUE LECTURE SERIES continues with a lecture by architect and educator Imro Vaško.
Imro Vaško is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, from the studio of Prof. Dušan Kuzma (1983). After returning from a Fulbright Scholarship at Yale University in 1991, he founded the Laboratory of Architecture at the Academy (until 2013). In 1998, he served as a visiting professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has lectured and been a critic at several universities (Columbia University, Pratt Institute, RICE, Cornell University, City College NY, Yale University, Die:Angewandte, AVU in Prague, TU in Liberec...) He co-organized several international architectural events, seminars, and workshops (ARCHFEST, WI:BRA, EAB, MeetUp...) and lecture series (KAT VŠVU, UMPRUM Architecture Lecture Series 2021). He focuses on trends in Central European architecture and Parallel Modernism and was a co-author of the joint exhibition of the Czech and Slovak Republics at the 7th Venice Architecture Biennale (2000). Since 2011, he has been leading the A III studio at the AAAD (UMPRUM) in Prague, where he is also currently the head of the Department of Architecture. In 2013, he co-founded the International Biennial of Experimental Architecture in Prague, exhibited academic research at international events such as Design Week in Milan 2018, Ars Electronica in Linz 2019, at the Prague Designblok 2020, and is a co-architect of the UMPRUM Platform 21 Clinic and Diploma project. He publishes in professional journals, is the author of the books "Architecture of the Moving Image" (2015) and "New Millennium 2000-2018: From the Fall of the Twin Towers to the Death of Zaha Hadid" (2021). He is a licensed architect SKA, author of several awarded competition designs (Kollárovo Square, Bratislava Riverbank...) and currently collaborates with the studio Šebo - Lichý architects, where he is a co-author of several development projects (Gansberg, Cherry Trees, Cradles, MamaPapa…), the administrative building GBC5, or the observation tower at Devínska Kobyla.

The theme of the BLUE LECTURE SERIES is house-concepts. (configurations - processes - compositions - positions - transformations - edges - figures - secrets - anarchitecture - models)
Models are conceptual designs and solutions where, through one project as an example, we address a broader scope, often not directly included in the assignment. They reveal new positions of architecture that, although created on demand, are not exclusively intended for it alone.
A model is an object that provides us with an understanding of complex phenomena through their simplification. It is at once abstract and concrete, an idea, and an object. It represents reality indirectly. Certain situations can be understood as model-like, showcasing a slice of reality and becoming an opportunity for the emergence of precedent.