The Architecture Cycle today continues with a lecture by Petr Kratochvíl

Petr Kratochvíl from the Prague Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences will be the next guest of the lecture series Architecture Today on Monday, June 12, at 4:30 PM, organized by the Olomouc Museum of Art. The renowned theorist and curator of exhibitions focused on contemporary architectural art has prepared a lecture titled Czech Architects in Exile.
Petr Kratochvíl has been addressing this topic for a long time. For example, in 2003, he prepared the exhibition "Czech Architects Abroad" for the Prague Gallery of Jaroslav Fragner, which highlighted the work of fifteen significant living Czech architects who were forced to leave the country (e.g., Mirko Baum, John Eisler, Eva Jiřičná, Ivan Koleček, Stanislav Makarov, Jiří Oplatek, Jan Hird Pokorný, Ivan Reimann, Martin Roubík, Zdeněk Zavřel). The exhibition was reprised in Berlin and Cairo. Recently, Kratochvíl's monograph on Eva Jiřičná was published, celebrated primarily for her interiors of fashion stores and boutiques in London and New York.
The Architecture Today lecture series has been organized by the Museum of Art since the beginning of this year. So far, Rostislav Švácha from the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Petr Rezek from the Technical University of Liberec, and Jindřich Vybíral from the Prague Academy of Art, Architecture and Design have spoken. Jindřich Vybíral's lecture on architecture of the Stalinist era was attended by 50 people. "This is an encouraging fact that confirms the ever-growing interest in architecture, design, and the artistic quality of urban environments," said Jakub Potůček, art historian at the Museum of Art and organizer of the series.

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PhDr. Petr Kratochvíl
(born 1950 in Prague)
Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
 
- graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague (fields of philosophy and psychology), - author of numerous studies published in architectural and art historical journals
- co-author of the books Architecture and the City (1996, co-authors P. Halík and O. Nový), Czech Architecture 1989-1999 (1999, co-author P. Halík), On the Meaning and Interpretation of Architecture (2005, anthology of translated studies), Conversations with Architects (2005)
- curator of exhibitions devoted to contemporary architecture: in 2000, he prepared an exhibition on contemporary Czech architecture (Prague Castle, Berlin, Munich, The Hague, Brussels, London) in collaboration with P. Halík, in 2003, the exhibition "Czech Architects Abroad" (Prague, Berlin, Cairo), and in 2005, the exhibition "Jan Hird Pokorný - Czech Architect in New York" (together with V. Šlapeta).
- participated in projects researching the development of Prague, urban morphological studies, contemporary world and Czech architecture, and specific issues relating new architecture to historical contexts.