Temples of Money - Book Launch at CAMP

Postmodern architecture of Czech banks and savings institutions in the 1990s.
The book presents the stories of 23 selected banking houses that reflect a specific regional color and the personal approach of their architects. It reveals the meanings that shape their fragile postmodern identity, which was generally associated with the promise of a new lifestyle characteristic of the Western society forming since the late 1970s. The individual essays on the banking houses were largely created based on personal interviews with the architects and are accompanied by rich architectural documentation, primarily a large number of period photographs, documenting the original representative appearance of these buildings, which is now mostly irretrievably lost beneath layers of renovations.
From 5 PM, you can look forward to a screening of a short documentary, a discussion with the author of the book, Jana Pavlová, and subsequently a discussion with graphic designers about their approach to creation with visual material.