Never again will we be modern - opening in the TIC gallery

The opening of the exhibition We Will Never Be Modern by students and graduates of the Faculty of Architecture at Brno University of Technology will take place on August 6, 2019, at 5:30 PM at the TIC Gallery in Brno, Radnická 4, where it will last until October 19, 2019.

Barbora Ochotná, David Helešic, Georgi Dimitrov, Kateřina Marečková, Kristýna Trojanová, Marek Svoboda, Mária Mušková, Ondřej Puček, Paulína Závacká

Curators: Jan Kristek, Rostislav Koryčánek, Jaroslav Sedlák

The enduring "rigor of Czech architecture," which claims to be universally, statically moral, is a legacy of modernism, where architecture is understood as a set of generally applicable rules. Good architecture is morally autonomous, in and of itself, irrespective of the surrounding cultural context and practices. Good architecture is meant to be sober.

The exhibition is a curatorial selection of six research projects by young architects. It is a probe into the subconscious of the emerging generation that wishes to be relevant but realizes that it can never be modern. The projects document that the loss of moral superiority associated with the modern project does not necessarily lead to demoralization, and the relativization of one's position does not have to result in chaos. The awareness that we have lost the vanishing point of collective direction and that the salvation of humanity through the modern project is not occurring need not be a moment of despair, but rather a moment of relief and a revision of one's own stance. Architecture cannot be defined by a set of universally applicable dogmas seemingly guaranteeing its autonomy, just as architecture cannot be relativized as merely a subject of social discourse. It is possible to engage with both at once, here and now, even if it causes a dizziness of the blurred perception of a drunkard.

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