National Heritage Institute, Regional Professional Workplace in Liberec and Regional Gallery in Liberec cordially invite you to a professional colloquium

Sial

In the history of Czech architecture in the second half of the 20th century, Liberec's Sial wrote the most famous chapter. Thanks to Karel Hubáček and other architects and engineers of this group, the focus of domestic creation shifted from large centers to the periphery of the Czech lands. Despite difficult political conditions, Sial managed to maintain an atmosphere of creativity and did not lose contact with current architecture in the world. Sial left behind outstanding buildings, led by the tower on Ještěd, and even more remarkable but unrealized designs. An exhibition that follows the Olomouc premiere is organized by the Regional Gallery in Liberec, presenting a selection of these designs, and a large collective publication "Sial" from 2010 attempted to provide an overview and historical evaluation of them. However, the debate about the legacy of the Liberec association does not end with the exhibition and the book. The relationship between man, technology, and nature - probably key for Sial - the ratio of its creation to the domestic and foreign scenes, the theoretical thinking of Liberec architects, Sial’s buildings in the context of the landscape and cities, their current heritage protection, and the significance of the Liberec association for today; all these are questions on which it is hard to ever have a final word. We will find them among the topics of the colloquium on the history of Sial, which will involve two dozen Czech and Slovak historians of modern architecture.



Title: Colloquium on the History of Sial

Expert guarantor: Prof. Rostislav Švácha, CSc.

Venue: Regional Scientific Library - lecture hall, Rumjancevova 1362/1, Liberec

Program:

Thursday, February 24, 2011

10:00-12:00

Jan Randáček and Jiří Křížek: introductory words

Oldřich Ševčík: Nature-technology-architecture. Several probes into this relationship

Henrieta Moravčíková: The political dimension of late modernism in Czechoslovakia

Matúš Dulla: Technicism as an escape from ideology

Pavel Halík: Sial in political contexts

13:00-14:45

Benjamin Fragner: The Appellation Exhibition 1967

Lukáš Beran: Ještěd in the context of European television towers

Petr Vorlík: The interior of Ještěd in Czech and foreign contexts

Departure to Ještěd by cable car at 15:30

16:00-17:00

Petr Volf: Why Sial is current for me

Jiří Jiroutek: I photograph the works of Sial

18:00 return by cable car to Horní Hanychov and Liberec


Friday, February 25, 2011

9:00-12:00

Jan Mohr: The city of Liberec in the Sial era

Iva Karásková: Sports buildings by Sial

Ludmila Hůrková: The work of studio 9 and group 11 as a reflection of contemporary thinking

Eva Novotná: Panel housing estates and Sial

Terezie Nekvindová: Liberec Exhibition Fairs in the context of exhibition architecture of the 1960s

Jitka Kubištová: Sial in Česká Lípa

13:00-16:30

Marcela Hanáčková: Lower center of Liberec

Marie Platovská: Prague villa architecture around 1970 and the villa of Věra Chytilová

Dita Dvořáková: Texts by Petr Vaďura

Karin Šrámková: Vladimír Karfík and Jiří Suchomel: comparative studies

Martin Strakoš: Heritage protection of post-war architecture in northern Moravia

Jiří Křížek: Protection of Sial's buildings


Final debate


Fees: 300 CZK, student 150 CZK. The fee will be collected on site.

Registrations: Please fill out the online registration form. Note, the capacity of the hall is limited!

Accommodation: Each participant arranges and pays for their own accommodation.

Unihotel, Voroněžská 1329/13, Liberec, tel.: 485 352 211

Hotel Petra, Ještědská 680/121, Liberec, tel.: 731 526 164

Hotel Pytloun, Volgogradská 29/70, Liberec

Further accommodation options will be provided by the City Information Center, nám. Dr. E. Beneše 1, Liberec, 485 101 709, [email protected], www.infolbc.cz

Refreshments: Free refreshments will be provided both days.

Contacts: Jiří Křížek (National Heritage Institute), [email protected], 724 663 322

Jan Randáček (Regional Gallery in Liberec), [email protected], 723 194 450

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