Roman Koucký, Rostislav Švácha: The Need to Protect and the Courage for the New
Gallery VI PER invites you to a new cycle of thematic discussions on architecture. The first discussion will take place on January 17, 2017, at 7:00 PM on the topic of the need to protect and the courage for the new.
This meeting focuses on the current and serious issue of the introduction of new architecture into the existing (historical) city, the immutability and changes of the historical environment, new buildings in an old context, thus on the topic of the relationship between the old and the new and the need to protect as well as the courage for the new. The discussion will be led by Prof. Rostislav Švácha and Assoc. Roman Koucký. Gather intellectual inspiration and clarify your thoughts.
Thematic architectural discussions: Every first Tuesday of the month, two participants, and one current topic. A proven format of academic debate, presentation of viewpoints, discussions, and audience questions. The aim of the cycle is to open important and pressing topics, allow the presentation of various, often conflicting, positions, confront diverse viewpoints with the insight of experts, responsible actors, politicians, and also enable the interested lay and professional public to directly learn the opinions of the participating parties and ask them questions. Each of the discussions is connected by one overarching topic.
Roman Koucký (1959) is an architect, associate professor, and head of the Institute of Building Science at the Faculty of Architecture of ČVUT. In 1992, he co-founded the civic association Zlatý řez, which publishes books on architecture and art as well as a magazine of the same name. Among his most notable realizations are the Marián Bridge in Ústí nad Labem (1998), the Long Bridge in České Budějovice (1998), and the Troja Bridge in Prague (2014), as well as a material collection facility with a wastewater treatment plant in Horní Maršov (1994), the reconstruction of Fárova House in Slavonice (1999), the residential building Labutí in Šternberk (2003), and the reconstruction and new building of the Integrated Secondary Technical and Economic School in Sokolov (2012). Since 2012, he has been preparing, as head of the metropolitan planning office at the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR), a new territorial plan for the capital city. He is the author of several books, including Elementary Urbanism (2 volumes, 2006) and The Creator's Office (2008).
Rostislav Švácha (1952) is a historian and theorist of architecture, a university educator, head of the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy UP in Olomouc, and a researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. In 2013, he received the Ministry of Culture Award for contributions in the field of architecture and the Honor of the Czech Chamber of Architects 2013. He is the author of many articles and studies, and has published or edited books such as From Modernity to Functionalism: Changes in Prague Architecture in the First Half of the 20th Century (1985, 2nd edition 1994), The Architecture of New Prague, 1895–1945 (1995), Karel Teige, 1900–1951: L’Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde (1999, co-editor Eric Dluhosch), Angled, Square, and Arched Shapes: Czech Cubist Architecture 1911–1923 (2000), Czech Architecture and Its Strictness: Fifty Buildings 1989–2004 (2004), Sial (2010), Let's Go! Czech Sports Architecture 1567–2012 (2012), and StArt: Sport as a Symbol in Visual Arts (2016). Together with Marie Platovská, he is the editor of the volumes History of Czech Visual Art V, 1939–1958 (2005) and History of Czech Visual Art VI, 1958–2000 (2007).
Conception: Jiří Tourek.
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This meeting focuses on the current and serious issue of the introduction of new architecture into the existing (historical) city, the immutability and changes of the historical environment, new buildings in an old context, thus on the topic of the relationship between the old and the new and the need to protect as well as the courage for the new. The discussion will be led by Prof. Rostislav Švácha and Assoc. Roman Koucký. Gather intellectual inspiration and clarify your thoughts.
Thematic architectural discussions: Every first Tuesday of the month, two participants, and one current topic. A proven format of academic debate, presentation of viewpoints, discussions, and audience questions. The aim of the cycle is to open important and pressing topics, allow the presentation of various, often conflicting, positions, confront diverse viewpoints with the insight of experts, responsible actors, politicians, and also enable the interested lay and professional public to directly learn the opinions of the participating parties and ask them questions. Each of the discussions is connected by one overarching topic.
Roman Koucký (1959) is an architect, associate professor, and head of the Institute of Building Science at the Faculty of Architecture of ČVUT. In 1992, he co-founded the civic association Zlatý řez, which publishes books on architecture and art as well as a magazine of the same name. Among his most notable realizations are the Marián Bridge in Ústí nad Labem (1998), the Long Bridge in České Budějovice (1998), and the Troja Bridge in Prague (2014), as well as a material collection facility with a wastewater treatment plant in Horní Maršov (1994), the reconstruction of Fárova House in Slavonice (1999), the residential building Labutí in Šternberk (2003), and the reconstruction and new building of the Integrated Secondary Technical and Economic School in Sokolov (2012). Since 2012, he has been preparing, as head of the metropolitan planning office at the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR), a new territorial plan for the capital city. He is the author of several books, including Elementary Urbanism (2 volumes, 2006) and The Creator's Office (2008).
Rostislav Švácha (1952) is a historian and theorist of architecture, a university educator, head of the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy UP in Olomouc, and a researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. In 2013, he received the Ministry of Culture Award for contributions in the field of architecture and the Honor of the Czech Chamber of Architects 2013. He is the author of many articles and studies, and has published or edited books such as From Modernity to Functionalism: Changes in Prague Architecture in the First Half of the 20th Century (1985, 2nd edition 1994), The Architecture of New Prague, 1895–1945 (1995), Karel Teige, 1900–1951: L’Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde (1999, co-editor Eric Dluhosch), Angled, Square, and Arched Shapes: Czech Cubist Architecture 1911–1923 (2000), Czech Architecture and Its Strictness: Fifty Buildings 1989–2004 (2004), Sial (2010), Let's Go! Czech Sports Architecture 1567–2012 (2012), and StArt: Sport as a Symbol in Visual Arts (2016). Together with Marie Platovská, he is the editor of the volumes History of Czech Visual Art V, 1939–1958 (2005) and History of Czech Visual Art VI, 1958–2000 (2007).
Conception: Jiří Tourek.
More information >
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