Architecture of Reciprocity - invitation to the opening at GJF

Let us not ask what architecture is, but rather, what it causes.

Every new architecture entering an existing environment brings something to it while also taking something away. It is never innocent. Most often, something is diminished, something disappears, transforms. Free space, passage, memory, sunlight, nature, air, view, silence may be reduced or lost. Equally or even more values may also be added.
The exhibition prompts us not to ask merely what architecture is, but primarily what it causes. It observes reality primarily through relationships, instead of focusing on objects, thus emphasizing the importance of relationships in general.
It is based on the assumption that the types of bonds in which architecture participates and that it creates are founded on the same or similar principles as the relationships between people or within nature.
Various types of reciprocal relationships - respect, belonging, communication, inspiration, empathy, responsibility, joy, memory, love, thriftiness, generosity, truth, support, openness, poeticism, connection, balance, and education - are presented through examples from the lives of people and society, in various scientific or artistic fields, and finally also in architecture itself. These associations remind us that our world is inherently interconnected, that human behavior is governed by similar principles that exist in nature, and that the thinking of any specialized field of human activity today must refer both to an awareness of the whole and to a maximum connection with other disciplines, in the interest of the whole and for the enrichment of oneself.
The exhibition is a manifesto of the Architecture of Reciprocity and shows both the theory of the approach to architectural creation and its source and application in the work of the architectural studio MCA, Miroslav Cikán, and Pavla Melková.