Adam Gebrian - 1+1=3. Paradox as a solution

Antiquarian Bookshop and Club Fiducia, in cooperation with architectural historian Martin Strakoš, cordially invites you to a lecture:

Adam Gebrian - 1+1=3. Paradox as a Solution

April 20, 2010, at 6:00 PM

The lecture will attempt to demonstrate that if you have a problem (or several) and it is properly understood and named, the solution is already relatively easy. This thesis will be proven through a series of architectural designs from around the world. We will go through examples illustrating certain paradoxes. For instance, trees can grow in an athletic stadium. Sweeping dirt under the carpet can be a good idea. A refrigerator can be ecological. Nothing needs to be exhibited in the main space of the gallery. The most important aspect of a concert hall may not be the acoustics. Cars and people do not have to be enemies in public space.

Thirty-year-old architect Adam Gebrian has drawn his experience from renowned architects in Europe and America. He has worked, for example, at the studio of Dominique Perrault in Paris, Maxwan in Rotterdam, and thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, also in Los Angeles at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, where he developed three projects for Mumbai, Dubai, and São Paulo. He currently leads the architecture studio at the Technical University in Liberec. He created an urban cluster for Ostrava as part of the European Capital of Culture project in 2015.

ATTENTION! Capacity is limited – only 100 people. We recommend reservation: only by phone at: +420 596 117 312 (Mon-Fri 10:00 AM-6:00 PM). Reservations must be collected no later than 10 minutes before the start of the lecture; at 5:55 PM, they will expire. Thank you for your understanding.

We are organizing this as part of the Architecture Week Ostrava.

The event is supported by: The Statutory City of Ostrava, The Czech Architecture Foundation, The Ministry of Regional Development, The Ministry of Culture.