Rental Housing - The Forgotten Segment of Czech Architecture - Exhibition at GAB
The Brno Architecture Gallery will present an analysis of rental housing in our country and in Europe.
In Brno, August 9, 2017 – The Brno reprisal of the exhibition prepared by the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery will open a long-neglected topic in the Czech Republic. Alongside the relatively young history of the field in our country, the exhibition will showcase the phenomenon of rental and social housing in Europe, various approaches from the perspective of legislation and strategies, and the most interesting examples both architecturally, urbanistically, and socially.
“Over the last approximately 150 years, housing has been realized in ownership, rental, or cooperative forms. However, rental housing has been pushed to the margins of interest since 1989 due to historical connotations and often thoughtless and chaotic privatization of the housing stock. Now, however, we are beginning to realize its significance and architectural contexts again. The mass privatization of the housing stock after 1989 was a historically conditioned act, but in retrospect, we see that in the process, we also threw out the baby with the bathwater,” says the director of the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, Dan Merta.
The exhibition will present realizations of rental and social housing – a dozen Czech examples and thirty buildings across Europe, with one project also from New York. Among the authors are leading studios such as BIG, JDS Architects, MVRDV, AllesWirdGut, Querkraft Architekten, NL Architects, POGGI & MORE, Vous Êtes Ici Architectes, OFIS, and ARKKITEHDIT HANNUNKARI & MÄKIPAJA ARCHITECTS.
Visitors to the exhibition will also find the UN Geneva Charter on sustainable housing and an analysis of the international situation. The event will include a screening of the documentary Housing in Vienna, by Alena Hanzlová, and a large model proposal for the area around Brno's main train station, created by five studios from the Faculty of Architecture at ČVUT in Prague.
We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, August 17, 2017, at 6:00 PM at the Gallery of Architecture Brno, Starobrněnská 18. The exhibition will be open Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and will last until September 15, 2017. Admission to the exhibition is voluntary. As part of the project, there will also be a debate on the topic of rental housing on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, at 6:00 PM at NEST Interiér, Panenská 1, Brno.
The exhibition RENTAL HOUSING / FORGOTTEN SEGMENT OF CZECH ARCHITECTURE – YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW was prepared by the curatorial team UNIT architects, the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, and architectural historian Hubert Guzik.
with the support: The Czech Architecture Foundation
in cooperation: UNIT architects, Faculty of Architecture of ČVUT in Prague, Atelier RAW, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín, Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, National Film Archive & State Fund for Cinematography, GAALERIIE.NET/Alena Hanzlová, FDB Agency, SEKYRA GROUP
curators: Dan Merta, Michal Kohout, David Tichý
More information >
“Over the last approximately 150 years, housing has been realized in ownership, rental, or cooperative forms. However, rental housing has been pushed to the margins of interest since 1989 due to historical connotations and often thoughtless and chaotic privatization of the housing stock. Now, however, we are beginning to realize its significance and architectural contexts again. The mass privatization of the housing stock after 1989 was a historically conditioned act, but in retrospect, we see that in the process, we also threw out the baby with the bathwater,” says the director of the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, Dan Merta.
The exhibition will present realizations of rental and social housing – a dozen Czech examples and thirty buildings across Europe, with one project also from New York. Among the authors are leading studios such as BIG, JDS Architects, MVRDV, AllesWirdGut, Querkraft Architekten, NL Architects, POGGI & MORE, Vous Êtes Ici Architectes, OFIS, and ARKKITEHDIT HANNUNKARI & MÄKIPAJA ARCHITECTS.
Visitors to the exhibition will also find the UN Geneva Charter on sustainable housing and an analysis of the international situation. The event will include a screening of the documentary Housing in Vienna, by Alena Hanzlová, and a large model proposal for the area around Brno's main train station, created by five studios from the Faculty of Architecture at ČVUT in Prague.
We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, August 17, 2017, at 6:00 PM at the Gallery of Architecture Brno, Starobrněnská 18. The exhibition will be open Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and will last until September 15, 2017. Admission to the exhibition is voluntary. As part of the project, there will also be a debate on the topic of rental housing on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, at 6:00 PM at NEST Interiér, Panenská 1, Brno.
The exhibition RENTAL HOUSING / FORGOTTEN SEGMENT OF CZECH ARCHITECTURE – YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW was prepared by the curatorial team UNIT architects, the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, and architectural historian Hubert Guzik.
with the support: The Czech Architecture Foundation
in cooperation: UNIT architects, Faculty of Architecture of ČVUT in Prague, Atelier RAW, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín, Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, National Film Archive & State Fund for Cinematography, GAALERIIE.NET/Alena Hanzlová, FDB Agency, SEKYRA GROUP
curators: Dan Merta, Michal Kohout, David Tichý
More information >
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