Ondřej Hojda: Osaka 1970: Architecture, Environment and Media
Introduction of the book in Gallery VI PER
Galerie VI PER invites you to the launch of Ondřej Hojda's book Osaka 1970: Architecture, Environment, and Media. The World Expo as a crossroads of Czechoslovak and global architecture.
The book focuses on the architectural events at the World Expo (Expo) in Osaka in 1970 and offers a new interpretation of the Czechoslovak pavilion, created by the architectural trio Rudiš, Palla, and Jenček, along with a team of visual artists. It first approaches the process of understanding Japanese architecture and urbanism through the eyes of foreign visitors and the ambivalent status of Japan at the time as a "country of the future." It then examines the architecture of the exhibition and the Czechoslovak pavilion from various perspectives: through architectural forms, conceptual ideas of the exhibitions, and intellectual trends that allowed for a compressed insight into the forthcoming developments in architecture, urbanism, and civilization as a whole. The text draws on extensive research of Czech and foreign sources, utilizing period documents, testimonies from creators, and contemporary criticism.
Ondřej Hojda is a historian and theorist of architecture. He studied the Osaka exhibition as part of his project at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He teaches at the Faculty of Art and Architecture of the Technical University of Liberec and at Archip in Prague.
The book focuses on the architectural events at the World Expo (Expo) in Osaka in 1970 and offers a new interpretation of the Czechoslovak pavilion, created by the architectural trio Rudiš, Palla, and Jenček, along with a team of visual artists. It first approaches the process of understanding Japanese architecture and urbanism through the eyes of foreign visitors and the ambivalent status of Japan at the time as a "country of the future." It then examines the architecture of the exhibition and the Czechoslovak pavilion from various perspectives: through architectural forms, conceptual ideas of the exhibitions, and intellectual trends that allowed for a compressed insight into the forthcoming developments in architecture, urbanism, and civilization as a whole. The text draws on extensive research of Czech and foreign sources, utilizing period documents, testimonies from creators, and contemporary criticism.
Ondřej Hojda is a historian and theorist of architecture. He studied the Osaka exhibition as part of his project at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He teaches at the Faculty of Art and Architecture of the Technical University of Liberec and at Archip in Prague.
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