About Bees and Screws
Lecture by Mirko Baum

Thu | September 2, 2010 | 6:00 PM | Discussion Hall

In another accompanying event to the exhibition Sial – Association of Engineers and Architects Liberec, one of the former members of the legendary Sial Nursery will present: Professor of Architecture at the Technical University of Aachen – Mirko Baum, who will give an autobiographical lecture about his studies, the Sial Nursery, and also the period after it, regarding his work in the Berlin studio of J. P. Kleihues. His buildings reflect reason underpinned by historical knowledge, resulting in enchanting structures with an engineering spirit.

FREE ENTRY

---

New Visions of Modernity (1985–1995)
LECTURE by Rostislav Švácha

Thu | September 16, 2010 | 5:00 PM

In his lecture, Rostislav Švácha examines the works of several leading Czech architects who, in the 1970s and 1980s, showed a certain interest in Western postmodernism but, in the second half of the 1980s, began to seek a different path. Among them were Alena Šrámková, Emil Přikryl, Václav Králíček, Josef Pleskot, Ladislav Lábus, Petr Malinský, Martin Němec, and Ján Stempel. A mysterious role in their transition from postmodernism to a new modernity was played by references to the tradition of functionalism, which can be interpreted in various ways. In contrast, Swiss minimalist architecture clearly illustrated the example of new modernity to them.

FREE ENTRY