How We Wanted to Live - Opening at GJF

The exhibition is organized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the republic with the support of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic. It will present the theme of building society through housing development in the first decades of Czechoslovakia's existence and the contemporary attitudes and approaches of Czechoslovak society towards housing issues based on the exploration of individual subtopics: state housing policy, social housing, housing discussions, cooperative housing development, private rental housing, experiments in housing construction, collective housing and collective houses, corporate housing development, prefabrication and standardization, and housing distress. The authors of the texts are Dagmar Černoušková, Jindřich Chatrný, Hubert Guzik, Jakub Potůček, Klára Eliášová, Eva Novotná, Lucie Valdhansová, and Ivan Wahla, with the exhibition curators being Michal Kohout and David Tichý.

Exhibition opening: October 17 at 7:00 PM, GJF
Conference: October 18, 9:00 AM–3:30 PM, Academy of Public Investment, Pařížská 4, Prague 1
Publication launch: November 7 at 6:00 PM, GJF

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