Printed Architecture: Ondřej Hojda

Vladimír's bookstore Serius and the civic association PLAC cordially invite you to the 37th lecture from the series "Printed Architecture". This time, on Friday, March 17, 2017, at 6:30 PM in Jablonec nad Nisou, we will welcome historian and theorist of architecture and art Ondřej Hojda, who will present the book How to Perceive Architecture.

The lecture will focus on the book How to Perceive Architecture by Danish architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen, whose Czech edition was initiated by Ondřej Hojda, who also wrote the afterword. The book dates back to 1959 and is among the author's most famous titles. It is an accessible yet dense text that can be perceived in analogy to phenomenological approaches to art, without being a straightforward influence. In a series of lecture essays, Rasmussen focuses on the elemental components of architecture as an experience: bulk and hollowness, weight and lightness, roughness and smoothness, color surfaces and temperature of colors, etc.

Mgr. Ondřej Hojda (*1983) studied art history at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University (2010) and art studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris (2011). He has studied and worked in France, Geneva in Switzerland, Oslo in Norway, and Hamburg and Berlin in Germany. In his doctoral studies at Charles University under the supervision of Prof. Rostislav Švácha, he explores the relationship between Europe and Japan in architectural contexts after 1945. He publishes in scientific and various other media (including Umění, Art&Antiques, ERA21). Most recently, he curated the issue "Forms of Critique" for the magazine Era21 (01/2017). He focuses on world architecture and urbanism of the 20th and 21st centuries in relation to other areas of culture, as well as to general questions of human perception and the environment.

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