What is architecture? Lecture by Miroslav Šik at the Faculty of Civil Engineering CTU

Miroslav Šik is an architect of Czech origin, the son of a prominent Czech economist, who emigrated with his parents to Switzerland in 1968, where he still lives and works. From 1968 to 1972, he attended high school in Basel and from 1972 to 1979 studied architecture at ETH Zurich, where he was a student of Aldo Rossi and Mario Campi. From 1980 to 1983, he was an assistant at the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich. From 1983 to 1991, he worked as a research assistant to Fabio Reinhardt at ETH Zurich. In the 1980s, a current known as analog architecture formed around him. From 1990 to 1992, he taught at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he influenced a generation of young Czech architects (the group New Czech Work). According to him, architecture should be in harmony with its surroundings, without external effects, made from ordinary materials. In 1993-94 and 1998, he taught architecture in Lausanne and from 1999 to 2018 was a full professor at ETH Zurich. He currently serves as a professor of architecture at AVU in Prague.

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