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Vladimír Šlapeta
"Baťa 1910-1950. The Realization of Utopia."
May 21 2009
Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Brno. Born in Olomouc, he studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague. From 1973 to 1991 he was head of the Architecture Department at the National Technical Museum in Prague. In 1992 appointed professor at the CTU’s Faculty of Architecture, since 2006 he has also been dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the Brno University of Technology. In 1988 and 2001 he received DAAD grants to work in (West) Germany, while in 1994 he was a visiting scholar at TU in Delft, in 1995 a fellow at Berlin’s Wissenschaftskolleg, and in 2000 a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal. He has produced or co-produced more than 30 exhibitions focusing on 20th-century Czech and Central European Architecture, including: “20th Century Prague” (National Technical Museum, Prague 1978), “Brno Functionalists” (Helsinki 1983), “Czech Functionalism” (AA London 1987), “Czech Cubism” (Vitra, Weil and. R. 1991), “Baustelle Tschechische Republik” (Berlin 1997), and the first exhibition after the Velvet Revolution on the architecture of Baťa (Zlín 1991).
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