Call to Participate in the Wood Construction Salon 2024

Preparations for the next annual festival and the largest exhibition of wooden architecture, Salon dřevostaveb, are underway, which will take place for the nineteenth time next year in April and May. Lectures, an exhibition at the piazzetta of the National Theatre, and a printed yearbook of selected buildings are being prepared. This time, architects from the Dutch firm Team V and the architect Bjørn Kierulf, who lives in Slovakia, have accepted the invitation to Prague. Are you an architect or an architectural studio that has completed an interesting project using wood in the last two years? Submit your completed building of various scales and purposes and become part of Salon dřevostaveb '24! The condition for submission is the recency of the realization and a high proportion of wood in the load-bearing structure, or its unconventional use.

The 19th edition of the Salon dřevostaveb festival will bring a wealth of inspiration from abroad, present new trends in materials and technologies, and especially highlight the most significant achievements in the field of wooden buildings that have emerged in the past two years in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The festival will take place from April 17 to May 22, 2024, in Prague.

Lectures, trends, and exhibition
It will again feature an outdoor exhibition of selected projects in the center of Prague at the piazzetta of the National Theatre, and as usual, the Yearbook of Wooden Architecture will be published, featuring selections and interviews with prominent personalities in architecture. A series of lectures, panel discussions, and presentations by local and especially significant foreign architects will be a matter of course.

The opening and main lecture evening will take place on April 17 in the CAMP center, and the outdoor exhibition in the center of Prague at the piazzetta of the National Theatre will be inaugurated on April 18, lasting until May 22.
Architects from the Dutch studio Team V, who are the authors of the monumental Centraal Station building in Rotterdam and the new university building in Amsterdam, will also arrive in Prague.

Another major attraction of the upcoming edition will be a lecture by architect Bjørn Kierulf, who is also the founder of EcoCocon, a company striving for a revolution in construction. It brings a new, efficient, and climate-neutral construction system, whose panels are made of wood and straw.

Option to submit your own project
Submissions for the 19th edition are now open. Architects have the chance to try to include their project among the most interesting wooden buildings of the last two years. If selected by the organizers for the shortlist, it will become part of the mentioned exhibition and yearbook, and its presentation will be seen by visitors during the lecture series. Projects can be submitted until January 30, 2024, via online registration for exhibitors.

“Since 2005, we have presented over 550 great projects during the Salon dřevostaveb. We have built a selective exhibition of contemporary wooden architecture, becoming a center for education in modern and quality sustainable wooden architecture and an inspiration for a responsible lifestyle. The festival also represents a unique place for meetings and establishing contacts between architects, companies from the industry, developers, and investors,” describes Pavel Horák, director and founder of Salon dřevostaveb, adding: “We look forward to what interesting wooden realizations will come to us this year and what inspiring meetings will occur during the events of Salon dřevostaveb.”