Results of the Olověný Dušan Competition 2007

The jury ultimately abandoned the search for a true super-project and instead tried to encompass and nominate the entire spectrum of works among the individual nominees – extensions, rehabilitations, small architecture, design, conceptual projects, large building complexes, landscape architecture.
The most serious discussion eventually arose in Ivan Kroupa's studio. Architect Reimann talked about new problems in planning, where urban planners in Germany are more concerned with controlled shrinking of cities, demolition of housing estates. The main motto of the competition was captured by architect Antonín Novák: 10 percent of architects create great architecture that makes it into magazines and books, but the real mission of the remaining 90 percent is space cultivation. In Kroupa's studio, architecture is approached in this way; students focus more on solving specific problems of different areas rather than creating striking forms and buildings and seek solutions that contribute to the overall improvement of the situation, rather than using these problems for self-realization in the form of architecture. The assignments are exceedingly realistic, arising in collaboration with a representative of the local government (the municipality of Ostrá), local investors (ZTS Dubnica), or they are assignments that linger in the air, but no one dares to tackle them (R35, Bar in front of the Faculty)

These conclusions ultimately led the jury to award the Dušan Prize to Kroupa's studio, specifically to the COLLECTIVE OF STUDENTS FROM KROUPA'S STUDIO, AULÍK, NOVOTNÝ