June 14, 2016, from 4:00 PM (entry possible from 3:30 PM) DOX – Center for Contemporary Art (Poupětova 1, Prague 7)
Moderated by: Karolína Vránková, journalist (Respekt), member of the Czech Architecture Award Academy
Discussants: Martin Rein Cano (Argentina/Germany), landscape architect, member of the Czech Architecture Award jury Miriam Lišková (Slovakia), architect, member of the Czech Architecture Award jury Vladimír Sitta (Australia/Czech Republic), landscape architect, Czech Technical University in Prague
The Czech Chamber of Architects announced the first year of the Czech Architecture Award (ČCA) in January 2016. The project includes a series of accompanying events held in various regions of the Czech Republic. The panel discussion on the topic of public space will raise questions such as what is and what is not public space, and will showcase examples of good and bad practices. It will also reflect a diverse range of works submitted for the first year of the ČCA. The competition show addresses public space through 35 works that thematically cover squares, forecourts, parks, monuments, and other interventions in public space. The panel discussion will feature ČCA juror Martin Rein-Cano from the Berlin office TOPOTEK 1, which is behind significant projects such as the "playful" Superkilen square in Copenhagen, which reached the finals of the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013 – the European Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Another discussant will be also ČCA juror, Slovak architect Miriam Lišková, who last year, together with her colleague Michal Sulla, won the Slovak Architecture Award CE∙ZA∙AR for the Community Center Máj in České Budějovice. Both Miriam Lišková and Martin Rein-Cano will also speak at this year's reSITE conference, which will take place on June 16-17. The third participant in the panel discussion will be prominent landscape architect Vladimír Sitta, who focuses on public space, and whose numerous projects are represented, for example, in Australia.
Each participant will receive the ČKA Bulletin on the topic of the Czech Architecture Award, which also serves as a catalog of all 475 works submitted for the competition show.
