Monika Mitášová and Marián Zervan: Vladimír Dedeček

On Friday, October 27, 2017, at 8:00 PM, a presentation and launch of publications dedicated to Slovak architect Vladimír Dedeček will take place at the VI PER Gallery in Prague, Vítkova 2.

The first of the two books, titled Becoming an Architect, was prepared by Monika Mitášová. It is dedicated to Dedeček's beginnings in the 1940s and 1950s and highlights the emergence of his own design methodologies. The second book was prepared by Monika Mitášová in collaboration with theorist Marián Zervan and other authors under the title Interpretations of Architectural Works. It includes, among other things, model textual, architectural, and photographic interpretations of four significant and most discussed works by Dedeček, along with information about his other 13 buildings.

To begin, Marián Zervan and Monika Mitášová will present the concepts of both books and approaches to writing about Dedeček in the context of the history of modern architecture in former Czechoslovakia and present-day Slovakia. Following the lecture, there will be a discussion with the authors and the book's graphic designer Kateřina Koňata Dolejšová. The expert reviewer of both books, Oldřich Ševčík, is also invited to the discussion.

Monika Mitášová studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (1993) and completed her postgraduate studies there in 2000 on the topic Text and Space. Writing in/on Architecture, Writing Architecture. She deals with the history of theories, contemporary theories of architecture, and interpretation of architecture. She worked at the Centre for Theoretical Studies of Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague; she now lectures at the Faculty of Philosophy at Trnava University, having previously taught at the School of Architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University in Liberec. Monika Mitášová is known to the Czech audience primarily as the editor of a pair of books of texts and interviews on American critical and projective architecture, Oxymoron and Pleonasm I and II, or as the author of the anthology Czech and Slovak Architecture 1971–2011, which she compiled together with Jiří Ševčík.

Marián Zervan served as the head of the Department of Theory of Architecture, Art, and Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava from 1993 to 2003, where he obtained his habilitation in the field of architecture and theory of architecture in 2001. Since 2006, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Philosophy at Trnava University, where he became a professor in the field of art history in 2010. He focuses on theory of architecture and sacred iconography. He also works as an assistant professor at the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he teaches architecture history, history of architectural theories and criticism, contemporary architecture, philosophy, and aesthetics.

Both books can be purchased directly at the VI PER Gallery.

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