The exhibition of projects by the studio Kamila Mrva offers a number of wooden buildings

Prague - A number of planned and already realized wooden structures designed by Kamil Mrva Architects studio is offered until February 28 at the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery in Prague. In addition to various buildings mainly from the Beskid region, Mrva's own house with an atelier, created by remodeling his family residence in Kopřivnice, is also on display.
    "Even in school, Mrva made an impression on me like Mirek Dušín, who subtly uses natural materials in his architecture," said Brno expert and critic of contemporary architecture Karel Doležel at today's opening ceremony.
    The exhibition opening attracted significant interest from visitors, who filled all the spaces of the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery. Here, one can see Mrva's earlier projects, competition designs, as well as completely new works.
    Mrva has been working for more than ten years in his studio in Kopřivnice, but his projects are no longer exclusively connected to the Beskid region. At the exhibition, interested parties can view, for example, a family house design with a café in Dugopolje, Croatia, alongside a villa quarter in Horní Bečva or a reconstructed former barn in Kojetín.
    The thirty-six-year-old Mrva is one of the most prominent representatives of the younger generation of Czech architects. After graduating from the Brno Faculty of Architecture and a short internship at the Gama studio in Prague under Karel Prager, he embarked on a study trip to North America, where he studied mainly the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. He then returned to his native Kopřivnice and began working on one of his first buildings, his own family house with an atelier. Here, he realized his manifesto and experienced the construction of a house from the perspective of an architect, investor, and construction supervisor.
    The house drew considerable attention and brought Mrva his first commissions. This was followed by several family houses, characterized by the integration of contemporary architectural forms with traditional materials and the landscape character of the Beskid region. Although the architect gained great renown with his wooden structures, he did not remain limited to this technology. In the next phase of his work, he expanded his architectural repertoire to include other materials. Today, the dominant structural material of his under-construction houses is no longer just wood. According to experts, Mrva also approaches other materials, such as stone, concrete, metal, or glass, in a way that utilizes their typical properties to create buildings that are simple, clean, and functional.