The October Architecture Festival showcases transportation and the world in motion

Prague - This year's edition of the Architecture Week Prague focuses on transportation, transport infrastructure, and spatial development. The international festival of architecture and urbanism, which showcases contemporary creations from around the world, is being held in the Czech capital and selected cities in the Czech Republic for the sixth time. It has expanded to four weeks for the first time, starting on Monday and lasting until October 28. The motto of this year's showcase is "The World in Motion, People in Motion". The organizers today presented the program at a press conference in Prague.
    "The festival focuses on transportation, not just on transport infrastructure, meaning not only on roads, railways, or waterways, but it encompasses everything related to transportation," said Radomíra Sedláková, the chief curator of the exhibition.
    According to her, the emphasis is placed on constructions that are primarily related to transportation, including bridges. "They are an architectural phenomenon of recent years because architects strive to be involved in the design of bridges," noted Sedláková.
    However, the festival also features airports, train stations, waterway structures, cultural buildings, and office buildings, which can also be transport destinations. "There is a beautiful fish crossing here - a transportation route for fish. More precisely, human transport could restrict fish, so a crossing for fish must be created... That is also a transport construction," Sedláková pointed out.
    The festival includes exhibitions on the history of transportation, exhibits, films, and photographs. Interested individuals can find them in the Summer Palace of Queen Anne at Prague Castle, where a total of three exhibitions are installed. They showcase the most interesting transport and spatial development projects from selected cities of the Visegrád Group countries and Bulgaria, reflecting on the overall concept of joint development and strengthening the territorial cohesion of Europe and covering railway, road, water, and air transport.
    World architectural projects are presented at the Arch World exhibition. "More than 30 countries are represented here, bringing works from their architects, and interestingly the phenomenon of transportation is also manifested there. Many countries present buildings that were not designed for them and were not built there," added the curator. The organizers managed to obtain over 100 models of projects from around the world. Traditionally, domestic and Slovak architectural studios are also represented.
    The organizers placed an exhibition of internationally recognized Austrian architect Boris Podrecsky in the Terezian Wing of the Old Royal Palace, where the public can also meet him at a lecture at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague. Other lectures, such as that of Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas, are traditionally held in the premises of the National Technical Library.