Printed Architecture: Jan Jehlík

Source
PLAC

Publisher
Tisková zpráva
09.12.2016 10:00

Vladimír's bookstore Serius and the civic association PLAC cordially invite you to the 36th lecture in the series "Printed Architecture". This time, on Friday, December 9, 2016, at 18:30 in Jablonec, we will welcome urban planner Jan Jehlík, who will present his new book Handbook of Urbanism.

The guest of the evening will be architect and educator Jan Jehlík, who will introduce his new book Handbook of Urbanism with the subtitle architecture of understanding and designing environments. The publisher Ausdruck Books states about the book: “In the Czech context, the first original work that comprehensively addresses the somewhat neglected discipline of architecture. How to approach urban tasks, how to proceed from small scales to large, from general to specific, from idea to form? The text aims to cover all aspects of the field and the general framework conditions for the creation of settlements, from the foundations of human existence in the world to the technical and political levels of decision-making, and formulates theses from which methods of design, evaluation, or design decisions can emerge in practice. The Handbook of Urbanism is also a personal reflection on the abilities and possibilities of organizing the architect's conceptual world in the context of an extraordinarily challenging task: to understand the surrounding environment and consciously design its valuable transformation."

Assoc. Prof. Ing. Arch. Jan Jehlík (*1959) studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University. After completing his studies, he worked at Stavoprojekt, later headed the development department of the City Hall of Ústí nad Labem. In 1996, he established his own studio Jan Jehlík – architectural office (see www.janjehlik.cz). Since 2007, he has been the head of the Institute of Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague. He is the principal investigator of the research project Methodology for assigning urban plans, a program project of the City of Prague, and the principal investigator of the five-year project NAKI II: Origin and attributes of heritage values of historical cities in the Czech Republic. Since 2010, he has been organizing the annual conference Inventory of Urbanism and is also the author of a number of journalistic texts on architecture and urbanism. A selection of them was published by Ausdruck Books in 2014 under the title Community and Settlement. On Landscape, Urbanism, and Architecture.

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