About the benefits and harms of history/theory for life - book launch
Monday, January 28, 2019, 19:00
Gallery VI PER, Vítkova 2, Prague-Karlín
Moderated by: Jiří Tourek
Organized by Gallery VI PER and the publishing house Zlatý řez.
On the occasion of the release of a large selection of texts on architecture – the book Euro-American Architectural Thought 1936–2011 – there will be a debate at Gallery VI PER about the role of theoretical reflection on architecture. The selectively editorially set selection of texts, in which only the writings of active, well-known architects were included in the book, directly invites discussion on what specific genre writing about architecture is, and how it differs or overlaps with architectural theory. Who (and why) writes about architecture today? What specific genres of writing revolve around architecture? Do texts influence architecture, or does the process only flow in the opposite direction? One of the editors of the book, architectural historian Rostislav Švácha, philosopher and architectural theorist Marian Zervan, and architectural theorist Monika Mitášová will come to discuss the usefulness and harmfulness of theory for architects and architecture. Jana Tichá will present the book.
Rostislav Švácha is an architectural historian and university educator. He serves as the head of the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Arts UP in Olomouc and a research worker at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is the author of many articles and studies, and has published or edited several books. Recently, for example, Paneláky 1: Fifty Housing Estates in the Czech Lands and Paneláky 2: The History of Housing Estates in the Czech Lands 1945–1989 (2016 and 2017), History of Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000 (2017), and the anthology Euro-American Architectural Thought 1936–2011 (2018).
Marian Zervan served as the head of the Department of Theory of Architecture, Art, and Design at FA STU in Bratislava from 1993 to 2003. Since 2006, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Arts of Trnava University, where he became a professor in the field of art history in 2010. He deals with architectural theory and sacred iconography. As a professor, he also serves as the guarantor of master's and doctoral studies in the field of the history and theory of visual arts and architecture at the Department of Theory and History of Art at VŠVU in Bratislava, where he teaches history of architecture, history of architectural theories and criticism, contemporary architecture, philosophy, and aesthetics.
Monika Mitášová focuses on the history of theories, contemporary theories of architecture, and the interpretation of architecture. She worked at the Center for Theoretical Studies of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, and now lectures at the Faculty of Arts of Trnava University. She is the editor of two books of texts and interviews on American critical and projective architecture, Oxymoron and Pleonasmus I and II, co-author of the anthology Czech and Slovak Architecture 1971–2011: Texts, Interviews, Documents, which she compiled with Jiří Ševčík, and a pair of books dedicated to Vladimír Dedeček from 2017.
Jana Tichá is concerned with modern and contemporary architecture in broader cultural contexts. She has managed the publishing house Zlatý řez since 1996 and teaches at the Faculty of Architecture CTU. She is the author of several book publications, including a guide to contemporary architecture in Prague, PRG 2021 (2007, with Irena Fialová), or Space and Place: Architectural Creation in the Czech Republic 1989–2014. She has editorially prepared several thematic anthologies of contemporary architectural theory, the most recent of which is Architecture and Landscape (2017).
The discussion will include the presentation and launch of the publication Euro-American Architectural Thought 1936–2011.
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Gallery VI PER, Vítkova 2, Prague-Karlín
Moderated by: Jiří Tourek
Organized by Gallery VI PER and the publishing house Zlatý řez.
On the occasion of the release of a large selection of texts on architecture – the book Euro-American Architectural Thought 1936–2011 – there will be a debate at Gallery VI PER about the role of theoretical reflection on architecture. The selectively editorially set selection of texts, in which only the writings of active, well-known architects were included in the book, directly invites discussion on what specific genre writing about architecture is, and how it differs or overlaps with architectural theory. Who (and why) writes about architecture today? What specific genres of writing revolve around architecture? Do texts influence architecture, or does the process only flow in the opposite direction? One of the editors of the book, architectural historian Rostislav Švácha, philosopher and architectural theorist Marian Zervan, and architectural theorist Monika Mitášová will come to discuss the usefulness and harmfulness of theory for architects and architecture. Jana Tichá will present the book.
Rostislav Švácha is an architectural historian and university educator. He serves as the head of the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Arts UP in Olomouc and a research worker at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is the author of many articles and studies, and has published or edited several books. Recently, for example, Paneláky 1: Fifty Housing Estates in the Czech Lands and Paneláky 2: The History of Housing Estates in the Czech Lands 1945–1989 (2016 and 2017), History of Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000 (2017), and the anthology Euro-American Architectural Thought 1936–2011 (2018).
Marian Zervan served as the head of the Department of Theory of Architecture, Art, and Design at FA STU in Bratislava from 1993 to 2003. Since 2006, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Arts of Trnava University, where he became a professor in the field of art history in 2010. He deals with architectural theory and sacred iconography. As a professor, he also serves as the guarantor of master's and doctoral studies in the field of the history and theory of visual arts and architecture at the Department of Theory and History of Art at VŠVU in Bratislava, where he teaches history of architecture, history of architectural theories and criticism, contemporary architecture, philosophy, and aesthetics.
Monika Mitášová focuses on the history of theories, contemporary theories of architecture, and the interpretation of architecture. She worked at the Center for Theoretical Studies of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, and now lectures at the Faculty of Arts of Trnava University. She is the editor of two books of texts and interviews on American critical and projective architecture, Oxymoron and Pleonasmus I and II, co-author of the anthology Czech and Slovak Architecture 1971–2011: Texts, Interviews, Documents, which she compiled with Jiří Ševčík, and a pair of books dedicated to Vladimír Dedeček from 2017.
Jana Tichá is concerned with modern and contemporary architecture in broader cultural contexts. She has managed the publishing house Zlatý řez since 1996 and teaches at the Faculty of Architecture CTU. She is the author of several book publications, including a guide to contemporary architecture in Prague, PRG 2021 (2007, with Irena Fialová), or Space and Place: Architectural Creation in the Czech Republic 1989–2014. She has editorially prepared several thematic anthologies of contemporary architectural theory, the most recent of which is Architecture and Landscape (2017).
The discussion will include the presentation and launch of the publication Euro-American Architectural Thought 1936–2011.
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