The Architect of the Year 2021 is Petr Stolín

photo: Roman Dobeš

Prague – The Architect of the Year 2021 award was given to Petr Stolín (63), head of the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Liberec. The award was presented to him today at the exhibition center in Prague's Letňany by representatives of ABF, the company organizing the For Arch construction fair. The award is given for an extraordinary contribution to architecture in the past five years. The jury selected him from four finalists. The competition also emphasizes the close professional connection between the builder and the architect.

"Petr Stolín and his colleague Alena Mičeková are a team whose work is of such quality that it stands up to any comparison with the best foreign produce. He has repeatedly won the main prize in the competitive showcase of the Czech Architecture Prize. His buildings, his own house and the studio ZEN-houses, have introduced a very friendly impulse into the Czech landscape. That is, unpretentious, modest, affordable, yet incredibly impressively arranged objects, one for living, the other for creating. They then legitimized this true architecture used for personal needs with even greater brilliance in the public building of the kindergarten in Vratislavice nad Nisou, where their work confirmed their mastery," stated the jury.

Stolín was born in Svitavy, where he attended high school. After being forcefully placed in a masonry vocational course by the party, he managed to transfer and complete an industrial secondary school in Liberec and then in Brno, where he subsequently studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Brno University of Technology from 1978 to 1983.

His other projects include, for example, the cultural center in Vratislavice or the small administrative building Ermeg in Liberec, which have won the Building of the Year award for the Liberec Region. Further projects include the renovation of the City Hall in Svitavy, a secondary vocational school in Liberec, a memorial for fighters and victims for the freedom of the homeland in Liberec, a residential home in Liberec, or the Secondary School of Art and Design in Železný Brod.