kruh jaro 2022: Mirko Baum a Lukáš Beran

Dialog of architect Mirko Baum with architectural historian Lukáš Beran. The lecture titled Symbol and Machine will focus on the fantastic dimension in the architecture of revolutionary changes.
Mirko Baum is an architect and educator focused on technical buildings and structures. After completing his studies at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, he became a member of the Liberec SIAL (Association of Engineers and Architects of Liberec). In the mid-1970s, he began his practice abroad, including collaboration with architect Josef P. Kleihues. He served as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University in Cáchy for twenty years, where he realized the building of student studios (1998–2002). In 2007, he published a book of essays on constructions and the theory of form titled The Street at the End of the World. That same year, he co-founded the studio baum & baroš ARCHITEKTI with David Baroš. Their Czech realizations include the footbridge over the Orlice in Hradec Králové and the Komenský Bridge in Jaroměř.
Lukáš Beran is an architectural historian and educator at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, and since 2005 has worked for the local Research Center for Industrial Heritage. He focuses on issues of industrial architecture, as well as the architecture of the second half of the twentieth century.
The lecture DIALOGUES | Mirko Baum and Lukáš Beran will take place on Thursday, May 5, 2022, at 7:30 PM in the corridor of the Trade Fair Palace.
Free tickets! Reservations in the GoOut network. The lecture is organized by the KRUH association, co-organized by the National Gallery in Prague. Program changes are reserved.