Lecture by V. Hájek and a walk through industrial architecture with VCPD

Festival 4+4 Days in Motion, Café Sladkovský, and the festival Industrial Traces warmly invite you to an afternoon and evening in Vršovice

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - walk at 4:00 PM and lecture at 7:00 PM

4:00 PM meeting at Café Sladkovský, Sevastopolská 17, Prague 10 – Vršovice

Lukáš Beran and Vladislava Valchářová (VCPD CTU Prague), INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE OF VRSOVICE
The walk will head towards "Waldeska", the factory of today's a.s. Koh-i-noor. On the corner of today's Vršovická and Moskevská streets, merchant Jindřich Waldes and technician Hynek Puc manufactured small metal goods, including mechanical snap fasteners (patent snaps) since 1907. Between 1912 and 1917, they built a four-story factory building on Kavkazská street according to the design of architect Ladislav Skřivánek, and between 1919 and 1921, another six-story building on Vršovická street, designed by engineer Jindřich Pollert. Together with the neighboring Pollert's building of the Helia shoe factory (later n. p. Tesla) from 1912-1916, these buildings form the most valuable industrial complex in Vršovice. The tour will be conducted by employees of the Research Center for Industrial Heritage at the Faculty of Architecture, CTU in Prague.


7:00 PM Café Sladkovský, Sevastopolská 17, Prague 10 – Vršovice
 
Václav Hájek, CULTURAL HISTORY OF BOTIČ
Botič is one of the most significant watercourses in Prague, around which settlement appeared in ancient times, creating a mixture of cultural and original landscapes. The current urban districts (formerly villages) located around Botič have maintained a status of certain peripherality to this day, even though they lie just a short distance beyond the medieval walls of Prague. Nusle, Vršovice, Záběhlice, and other districts have created their specific legend, distinct from the myths of the central parts of the city, based on the culture of the "fallen" hero. The Botič valley is still understood today as a cult area of "alternative" culture, sports, and lifestyle.

PhDr. Václav Hájek, Ph.D. (* 1974) studied art history at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, lectures at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University and the Fine Arts Faculty at the Brno University of Technology, publishes in periodicals such as Dějiny a současnost, A2, Flash Art, and places essays on cultural theory on his blogs vizualni-studia.eblog.cz and maly-teoretik.eblog.cz.

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