Printed Architecture: Michal Kohout, František Štáfek

The 26th episode of the lecture series will focus on the book "My House, Our Street: Individual Housing and Its Coordinated Development", authored by Michal Kohout, František Štáfek, David Tichý, and Filip Tittl. The book documents the advantages and challenges of a higher degree of coordination in the construction of individual housing beyond the usual scope of the zoning plan, in various environments, from rural to urban. It is accompanied by a rich visual material of domestic and foreign reference examples. The publication is intended for representatives of public administration, developers, and all potential purchasers of family housing.

26 / Michal Kohout and František Štáfek
April 10, 2015 at 18:30 / Serius Bookstore



Doc. Ing. arch. Michal Kohout (*1964) studied at the Faculty of Architecture CTU and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He has worked in numerous studios in the Czech Republic, Great Britain, and Spain. Before founding the company UNIT architects, he was a partner in the Jiran Kohout architects office for sixteen years. He is an authorized architect of the Czech Chamber of Architects (ČKA) and has a number of awarded projects in the field of housing, multifunctional, and public buildings. Michal Kohout has been the head of the Institute of Building Science and the guarantor of the housing program at the Faculty of Architecture CTU since 2012, where he also leads a studio (with D. Tichý) and teaches a series of construction sets at the Institute of Urbanism. He is a co-founder of the publishing house Zlatý řez and the research organization Centrum kvality bydlení.

Ing. arch. František Štáfek studied at the Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague and collaborated with several architectural offices in the Czech Republic. For nine years, he worked with Jiran Kohout architects, where he led architectural and urban projects and was a partner at UNIT architects. In 2014, he established the SUM architects studio. He is also an authorized architect of the ČKA.

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