Jan Tabor: Thoughts on Hunting Grounds

On Friday, May 12, 2017, at 7:00 PM, a accompanying lecture by Jan Tabor will take place on the topic of Thoughts on Gamekeeping in connection with the monographic exhibition Unwanted Heritage about the work of Brno architect Jan Dvořák at the cultural space PRAHA / Forum for Architecture and Media, located at Husova Street 18a in Brno.
Postmodern architecture - trophy - ham roll with horseradish - taxidermy - "communist kitsch" - room number 405 - mountain lodge - anodized aluminum.
The open format discussion with architecture theorist Jan Tabor, exhibition author of Unwanted Heritage, architectural historian Šárka Svobodová, and their guests, will focus on the now-iconic hotel and restaurant Myslivna.
As a hotel-type accommodation on the slope above Pisárky, Myslivna was meant to supplement the missing accommodation capacities of the fair city at the end of the 1960s. The changing functional requirements gradually altered the project to the extent that instead of an accommodation facility, a three-star hotel with a capacity of 120 rooms was ceremonially opened here in 1987.
In the debate, we will address not only the specific architectural typology but also the heritage protection of post-war architecture. The architectural historian Petra Hlaváčková, one of the researchers of the project "BRNO:WIEN. Development of evaluation methodology for architecture from 1945 to 1979." will also join the discussion. Civil engineer Pavel Vlček, who was responsible for the construction of hotel Myslivna for RaJ in the 1980s, has also preliminarily confirmed his participation.
The event is held as part of the accompanying program of the exhibition project "UNWANTED HERITAGE: Architect Jan Dvořák (1925–1998)".

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