kruh spring 2017 : Éric Lapierre + Kuba Snopek

Kruh invites you to the spring lecture series "Another Perspective," featuring a number of outstanding foreign architects who will present their projects and current trends in contemporary architecture.

Another Perspective: Éric Lapierre (F) + Kuba Snopek (PL)

Thursday, April 6, 2017 / 19:30

Cinema 35, French Institute in Prague

Štěpánská 35, Prague 1-New Town
The lecture will be held in English without translation
Admission: 100,- / students and seniors 80,-

Éric Lapierre
French architect and theorist Éric Lapierre will combine both of his professions in his first lecture in Prague. "Representing a project in my work is not merely a representation. I try to get closer to the project and its depiction through it. This means that the plans themselves interest me as graphic works that stand alone – they must be as successful as a drawing. The physical model then represents a way for me to draw attention to buildings constructed with ordinary contemporary means," reveals Lapierre.
The office Éric Lapierre Experience is based in Paris. Éric Lapierre teaches at EPFL and at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Paris Est. He lectures at universities in Europe and the USA. In his work, he focuses on theoretical issues, which he believes are the only way to keep architecture alive as a means of high culture under ordinary contemporary conditions. Since 2000, he has regularly published and written articles on architecture. He has published, for example, a guide to Parisian architecture (1900–2008) and the book "Architecture of the Real" (Le Moniteur, Paris, 2003). He has curated a number of architecture exhibitions. Among his significant buildings is the Art Center in Cherbourg.

Kuba Snopek / Architecture of the Seventh Day
New Polish churches as a community and anti-regime phenomenon? Polish urbanist Kuba Snopek will present the project Architecture of the Seventh Day, which documents the incredible phenomenon of post-war sacred construction in Poland, where 3,780 churches have been built since 1945. Most of these buildings were constructed in the 1980s through the efforts of parishioners and often without building permits. Architecturally very original to eccentric sanctuaries have become symbols of resistance against the communist regime and the strength of community cooperation, now referred to as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding.
Kuba Snopek (*1985) is a Polish urbanist and architectural theorist, primarily focusing on the space and architectural heritage of post-communist cities. He is the author of the book Belyayevo Forever, which raises the question of how to protect intangible heritage through the example of "an ordinary communist Moscow housing estate." He has worked at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Russia and has collaborated on research and urban projects in Poland, Denmark, Spain, and Russia. He, along with Iza Cichońska and Karolina Poper, is one of the authors of the project Architecture of the Seventh Day, which maps post-war construction of Polish churches.

Accompanying program of the exhibition Architecture of the Seventh Day (March 17 - May 22, 2017)
Guided tour on April 8, 2017, at 16:00
Center for Contemporary Art DOX, Poupětova 1, Prague 7

organized by: Kruh z.s.
under the patronage of: Czech Chamber of Architects
project supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the City of Prague, the Czech Architecture Foundation, the French Institute in Prague, the Polish Institute in Prague
main partner: FORBO FLOORING
partners: SIPRAL a. s., MDA Praha s. r. o., mmcité1 a. s., PREFA Aluminum Products s.r.o., SAPELI a. s., SOMFY spol. s r. o.
media partners: ArtMap, ARCHITECT+, archiweb.cz, EARCH, Stavbaweb, ERA21, informuji, Material Times, Proti šedi, Radio 1, Radio Wave, Regina DAB Prague

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