The architecture will remind one of Loose, Gočár, and ecology

Prague - This year's tenth edition of Architecture Day will commemorate the anniversaries of architects Adolf Loos, Josef Gočár, and Otakar Novotný, feature social and ecological themes, and offer free walks, bike rides, lectures, and workshops. The festival will take place from October 1 to October 7, and in addition to contemporary projects and historically significant buildings, participants will visit ecological centers, former workers' colonies, medieval monastic lazarets, or assisted living houses, as well as socially excluded areas.

Traditionally, the festival also includes the project Hurá dovnitř!, which opens normally inaccessible buildings to the public, a program for children, and the architectural film festival Film and Architecture, which this year, for the ninth time, will bring mainly foreign films focused on architecture and urbanism to cinema screens. The program is supplemented and specified on the website.

The main social theme of Architecture Day will offer excursions to excluded areas, such as the so-called Brno Bronx, the Ostrava Bedřiška, or Prague's Plzeňská street. Architecture Day will also lead to the former workers' colony Divišova in Brno. Social housing will be addressed not only from the perspectives of architects but also of social workers. The festival's topic also includes housing availability, with the program paying attention to urban infrastructure and the quality of urban life.

Remarkably, during the festival, interested parties will have the opportunity to visit hospital complexes in Jihlava, Prague, Liberec, or Mladá Boleslav, as well as the Ostrava assisted living house Gajdošova. The program includes visits to sports facilities, Sokol halls, playgrounds, and municipal baths.

The festival's ecological theme will take visitors to the Open Garden center of the Partnerství Foundation in Brno, which ranks among the most energy-efficient office buildings in the Czech Republic, or a low-energy house in Horka nad Moravou, Sluňákov. Architecture Day will also head to the new Krkonošské Center for Environmental Education Krtek. The program will also focus on the role of rivers in cities, offering a walk directly along the riverbed in Jablonec nad Nisou or a visit to the Water House in Hulice. It will not overlook urban greenery or new uses for abandoned industrial sites.