On Thursday, March 10, 2016, British architect Ian Bogle, whose studio designed ELI Beamlines in Dolní Břežany, the most modern laser center in Europe, will give a lecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Starting at 6:30 PM in the Gočár lecture hall, Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University, Thákurova 9, Prague 6 – Dejvice. The lecture will be in English, admission is free and accessible.
"We strive for a simple concept that can solve complex projects. We ask questions, draw, model, think, and ask ourselves questions again," says Ian Bogle, director of the architectural office Bogle Architects, which was awarded the best architectural project of the year 2014 by the international festival Architecture Week Prague for the laser center ELI Beamlines.
Ian Bogle studied architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow. Since 1995, he worked for Foster + Partners. As the principal project engineer, he was responsible for the construction of London's 30 St Mary Axe (Swiss Re Tower, Gherkin) and Bexley Business Academy, which received the prestigious Stirling Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 2004.
In 2002, he joined the established British office Hamilton's Architects, and eight years later, he was one of the co-founders of Bogle Flanagan Lawrence Silver Ltd. (BLFS). During this period, the office implemented, among other projects, the second tallest building in London's Southwark, Strata SE1 (The Razor), a 148-meter-high residential building that is the first building in the world with integrated wind turbines.
Since 2012, Ian Bogle has been leading his own architectural office Bogle Architects. Today, it operates in 15 countries worldwide, including a branch in Prague. The most successful project of the office in the Czech Republic is the international laser research center ELI Beamlines, which opened in October 2015 in Dolní Břežany. The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project is part of a European plan to build a new generation of large research facilities selected by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).