<h1>More about Architecture! No.1: Export-Import</h1>

Czech Centre Prague, in collaboration with the architectural magazine ERA21, is preparing a new series of moderated discussions with personalities from Czech and foreign architecture for the year 2014, aimed primarily at the general public. The debate cycle will address pressing social topics that resonate both here and abroad. The series of discussion evenings on architectural themes ABOUT ARCHITECTURE MORE!

Theme No. 1: EXPORT - IMPORT / Architectural services as export commodities

The discussion will be moderated by Adam Gebrian

Guests: Jan Magasanik, Martin Hejl, Irena Šebová, and Tomáš Král

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at 6:00 PM, Czech Centre Prague, Rytířská 31, Prague 1

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The first in the series of planned lectures will take place on Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at 6 PM. The discussion moderator Adam Gebrian has invited a quartet of experts: Jan Magasanik, Martin Hejl, Irena Šebová, and Tomáš Král. The theme of the first meeting will focus on architectural services as export commodities. “In recent years, young Czech and Slovak architects have been leaving en masse for work, study, or internships, akin to the pilgrimage that every apprentice was compulsorily required to undertake more than a century ago. Many of them will try several foreign destinations before deciding to return,” says architect and theorist Adam Gebrian. “Architecture in the Czech lands has always been known as a distinctive, local adaptation of skills brought in from abroad. However, we may be on the threshold of a new era, where export begins to increase to our benefit,” adds the moderator of the first thematic evening.

The content of the thematically focused discussions is based on both processed and newly prepared issues of the professional architectural magazine ERA21. They are the result of careful editorial work and new contacts established with leading global and domestic specialists. They will be moderated by the issue's editors. Experts from both the Czech Republic and abroad will gather at the discussion table. The concept, based on the international dimension of architectural creation and sharing the most current knowledge, as well as the broad promotion of architecture towards the public, was developed by Osamu Okamura.

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