An initiative of the
In Zukunft Zlín
May 22 2009
The issues of future urban planning developments for the "city of functionalism", urban principles, and a possible "learning from Zlín" are the topics to be broached in an open, interdisciplinary discussion round featuring local experts, members of the young Czech architectural scene, and international scholars. A presentaion by Dagmar Nová on the current architectural situation in Zlín shall precede the discussion.
With Regina Bittner, Adam Gebrian, Lukáš Kohl, Svatopluk Sládeček, Jan Obšívač. Einführung: Dagmar Nová; Moderation: Igor Kovačević
22.05.2009
Adam Gebrian
Born in 1979, a practicing architect as well as critic and theoretician of architecture, he studied at the School of Architecture in Liberec (2006) before taking part in the SCIFI postgraduate programme at the Southern California Institute for Architecture in Los Angeles (2008) on a Fulbright scholarship. He has lived, studied, and worked in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Prague, Paris, London, and Los Angeles. He has published a collection of lectures 29+3, co-founded the architecture website archit.cz (2005), and is on the editorial board of the magazine era21, to which he is also a regular contributor. He is an organizer of Pecha Kucha Nights in Prague, and exhibited his own project for Dubai at the 11th Biennale in Venice (2008). Since 2009 he has hosted his own show called ‘Bourání’ (Demolition) on Radio Wave and is studio head of the Technical University of Liberec’s Faculty of Art and Architecture.
Lukáš Kohl
Studied in Prague and at Clemson University, South Carolina, he writes for the architectural journal ERA21, most notably the articles “Current American Architecture” and “Louis Kahn”, and edited the Czech edition of Colin Rowe’s classic anthology The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and other essays for ERA publishing. In 2007 he founded the company Montus Ltd which develops and constructs affordable, energy-efficient, and individual housing. The company also facilitates cooperation between municipalities and real estate investors as a basis for creating smarter urban schemes.
Igor Kovačević
Born in 1973 in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Igor Kovačević graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague with a degree in architecture and urban planning in 2000 and is currently completing a doctoral course at the same university in the theory of architecture (thesis on Yugoslav architects educated in Bohemia). He is a founding member of the Centre for Central European Architecture in Prague. Besides his curatorial activities, as an architect he is also involved in MOBA (www.moba.name), a multi-purpose architecture platform which he founded together with Yvette Vasourková.
Dagmar Nová
Born in 1958, Dagmar Nová graduated from the Brno University of Technology’s School of Architecture in 1984, and has been Zlín’s chief architect since 2006. Between 1986 and 1991 she worked as a designer and architect for Stavoprojekt Zlín, while from 1991 to 2000 she had a private architectural firm focusing on housing, civil and industrial development, as well as interiors and engineering activity for design and construction. Since 2000 she has worked at the Office of the City Architect in Zlín, where her duties have included creating conceptual plans for municipal development, gathering regional data and documentation, and regulating construction activity. Her realized projects include the reconstruction of the factory floor of the Fatra Napajedla company, the reconstruction and extension of a villa in Luhačovice, the headquarters Alois Berka spol. s r.o., a pearl farm on the island of Tahaa, Tahiti, houses in Zlín and surrounding areas, Luhačovice, Prague, Lozorno, as well as her own house in Zlín- Mladcová.
Jan Obšívač
Born in 1977. Currently working at the Institute of National Monuments in Kroměříž, he graduated in 1999 from the College for Vocational Studies in Information and Library Sciences in Brno – Řečkovice, writing his graduation thesis on The History of Palace Libraries and Their Current Uses. In the same year he worked for the Archbishop’s Palace in Kroměříž. From 1999 to 2000 he studied the theory and history of art and culture at Ostrava University, before moving to Masaryk University in Brno to study art history. In the fall of 2006 he received his MA degree for the thesis Baťa’s Zlín Between the Wars – Ideal Industrial City: The Company’s Shop Window and Basis for Economic Expansion.
Svatopluk Sládeček
Studied in Prague and at Clemson University, South Carolina, he writes for the architectural journal ERA21, most notably the articles “Current American Architecture” and “Louis Kahn”, and edited the Czech edition of Colin Rowe’s classic anthology The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and other essays for ERA publishing. In 2007 he founded the company Montus Ltd which develops and constructs affordable, energy-efficient, and individual housing. The company also facilitates cooperation between municipalities and real estate investors as a basis for creating smarter urban schemes.
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