Monika Mitášová and Marián Zervan: Vladimír Dedeček

Baptism of two publications at Forum 4AM

Source
PRAHA/Fórum pro architekturu a média
Publisher
Tisková zpráva
02.11.2017 20:10
Vladimír Dedeček

On Monday, November 6, 2017, at 6:00 PM, a lecture by Monika Mitášová and Marian Zervan will take place at the cultural space PRAHA / Forum for Architecture and Media, Husova 18, along with a presentation and launch of a two-volume publication dedicated to the Slovak iconic architect Vladimír Dedečka.
The first of the two books, titled BECOMING AN ARCHITECT, was authored by Monika Mitášová and focuses on the early days of Dedečka, highlighting the birth of his own design methods.
The second book was prepared by Monika Mitášová in collaboration with theorist Marian Zervan and other authors under the title INTERPRETATION OF ARCHITECTURAL WORK. It includes, among other things, textual, architectural, and photographic interpretations of four of Dedečka's most discussed works.

Monika Mitášová studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture at SVŠT in Bratislava and completed her postgraduate studies there in 2000 on the topic Text and Space. Writing about/in Architecture, Writing Architecture. She is engaged in the history of theories, contemporary theories of architecture, and architectural interpretation. She has worked at the Center for Theoretical Studies of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, and is currently lecturing at the Faculty of Philosophy at Trnava University, previously at the School of Architecture AVU in Prague and at the FA TU 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-II, or as the author of the anthology Czech and Slovak Architecture 1971-2011, which she compiled together with Jiří Ševčík.

Marian Zervan served from 1993 to 2003 as the head of the Department of Architectural Theory and Design at FA STU in Bratislava, where he was habilitated in the field of architecture and urbanism in 2001. Since 2006, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Philosophy at Trnava University, where he became a professor of art history in 2010. He focuses on architectural theory and sacred iconography. He also works at V%SVU in Bratislava, where he teaches History of 20th Century Architecture and Contemporary Architecture and History of Architectural Theories and Criticism.

* Both books are already on sale at the cultural space PRAHA.

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