Architectural Overlaps: The lecture series will be opened by Pavel Hnilička
Thoughts on the relationship between building scale and the municipality
As in recent years, the Pěstuj prostor association has prepared two series of lectures and discussions on architecture for the public this year as well. The spring cycle will focus on contemporary architecture, always featuring an architect whose work is characterized by significant overlaps beyond the main field of "practical" architecture. The guest of the introductory episode will be architect, urban planner, and theorist Pavel Hnilička, author of the book "Sídelní kaše" and creator of the original version of the new Prague building regulations. In his lecture titled "The House as a Part of the Settlement," which will take place on Wednesday, May 10, 2017, at 6:30 PM at Café Papírna in Plzeň, he will discuss how thinking about the scale of buildings influences the scale of the municipality and vice versa.
Pavel Hnilička, a former lecturer at the FA ČVUT and current vice-chairman of the Czech Chamber of Architects, addresses topics related to the analysis and design of municipalities (especially their suburban areas), building density, the size and mutual configuration of individual buildings, and the search for rules for their creation in both his practical and theoretical work. In addition to building designs, he also develops regulatory and zoning plans in his own studio. He became widely known mainly due to his successful book "Sídelní kaše" (2005, 2012), in which he set out to "uncover the phenomenon of suburban development and suggest solutions on how to address the issue and how to build new colonies of family houses better than is done today." One of the sub-topics of the publication is the analysis and critique of suburban public spaces.
Hnilička, who also contributed to the publication "Sub Urbs: Landscape, Settlements, and People", points out that public spaces in the suburbs do not receive adequate attention, both due to the insufficient concentration of houses and their residents (i.e., population density) and due to developers' reluctance to create public spaces from parts of the land. As a result, the urban atmosphere fades from the suburbs, minimized public spaces are neglected and become overlooked and abandoned places.
By creating conditions for the realization of intensive, economical, and sustainably long-term construction aimed at improving the quality of life in the city, Pavel Hnilička focused intensively on this topic from 2012 to 2014, when he led a team at the Institute of Planning and Development of the City of Prague preparing new Prague building regulations. For this work, as well as for his long-term advocacy in the fight against unsustainable urban sprawl into the countryside, his activity in the leadership of the Czech Chamber of Architects, a series of sensitive zoning and regulatory plans for Prague's suburban municipalities, and quality architectural realizations, he was nominated for the Architect of the Year award in 2015.
Admission to the event is 50 CZK. The next episode of the Architecture Overlaps cycle will take place on Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at 6:30 PM again at Café Papírna in Plzeň. Architect, urban planner, and theorist Petr Hájek will present a lecture titled Ad triangulum - research and experiment in architecture.
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Pavel Hnilička, a former lecturer at the FA ČVUT and current vice-chairman of the Czech Chamber of Architects, addresses topics related to the analysis and design of municipalities (especially their suburban areas), building density, the size and mutual configuration of individual buildings, and the search for rules for their creation in both his practical and theoretical work. In addition to building designs, he also develops regulatory and zoning plans in his own studio. He became widely known mainly due to his successful book "Sídelní kaše" (2005, 2012), in which he set out to "uncover the phenomenon of suburban development and suggest solutions on how to address the issue and how to build new colonies of family houses better than is done today." One of the sub-topics of the publication is the analysis and critique of suburban public spaces.
Hnilička, who also contributed to the publication "Sub Urbs: Landscape, Settlements, and People", points out that public spaces in the suburbs do not receive adequate attention, both due to the insufficient concentration of houses and their residents (i.e., population density) and due to developers' reluctance to create public spaces from parts of the land. As a result, the urban atmosphere fades from the suburbs, minimized public spaces are neglected and become overlooked and abandoned places.
By creating conditions for the realization of intensive, economical, and sustainably long-term construction aimed at improving the quality of life in the city, Pavel Hnilička focused intensively on this topic from 2012 to 2014, when he led a team at the Institute of Planning and Development of the City of Prague preparing new Prague building regulations. For this work, as well as for his long-term advocacy in the fight against unsustainable urban sprawl into the countryside, his activity in the leadership of the Czech Chamber of Architects, a series of sensitive zoning and regulatory plans for Prague's suburban municipalities, and quality architectural realizations, he was nominated for the Architect of the Year award in 2015.
Admission to the event is 50 CZK. The next episode of the Architecture Overlaps cycle will take place on Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at 6:30 PM again at Café Papírna in Plzeň. Architect, urban planner, and theorist Petr Hájek will present a lecture titled Ad triangulum - research and experiment in architecture.
> pestujprostor.plzne.cz/presahy-architektury-dum-jako-soucast-sidla
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