ARCHIFEST 2010 - invitation for Saturday, September 11
“Never change me…”
Saturday, September 11, 2010, 7:00 PM.
This year's celebration of architecture is dedicated by the organizers to the ideas of Josip Plečnik – in the form of a dramatization of the Master's letters, presented directly at the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord at Jiří z Poděbrady Square.
Plečnik's letters, addressed to chaplain Alexander Titl from the parish of the church during the design of the temple at the beginning of the last century, illustrate the thoughts and creative doubts accompanying the work on this exceptional masterpiece. The value of the building was publicly confirmed by an act of the Czech government, which declared the Vinohrady church a National Cultural Monument of the Czech Republic in February this year.
The birth of the church in the center of Prague recalls the ancient idea of Slavic mutuality but, as we are more aware today, also the contemporary idea of European belonging. With the help of Czech T. G. Masaryk (then still a member of parliament), a department of architecture was established at the Prague Academy, and Slovenian Plečnik was brought here (in 1911) to become a professor. A deeply believing Catholic, he oriented his teaching towards the classical heritage of Mediterranean architecture. He taught at the school until the First World War; after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, he returned to Ljubljana, where he worked until his death in 1957. In letters he sent to chaplain Titl from his homeland during the design of the temple (and afterwards, until the beginning of the Second World War), he dealt with questions not only related to architecture. According to Professor Matúš Dully from the Faculty of Architecture of ČVUT in Prague, Plečnik believed that Slavs have a different mentality compared to the great Western European nations: he considered antiquity a key starting point, convinced that the modern age is not capable of developing its own distinctive forms... He would not have reconciled himself with the position of the church based solely on the requirements for the economy of construction, acoustics, and visibility of the main altar. His reflections on the significance of the memory of Prague Castle (in the alterations of which he participated) as well as the fact of transferring stones from the substrate of one of the courtyards directly into the foundations of the church testify to this.
This year's dramatization of the reading of selected twenty letters follows the ceremonial reading of selected correspondence during the Archifest 2008.
This year’s Archifest will also see the publication of the mentioned letters in the form of a bibliophile printing in a limited number of 350 numbered copies.
By the end of this year, Friends of Prague 3 will also publish a collected volume of all approximately 200 letters. Both publications are supplemented with notes by Helena Čižinská, Damjan Prelovšek, and David Blažek.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010, 1:00 PM.
A walk through the residences of artists who lived and created in Žižkov in the 1930s. The journey will be inaugurated by a public reading from the literary works of the creators.
Beginning at the former home of S. K. Neumann, Chelčického 45, Žižkov.
Free entry
Organizer: Friends of Prague 3, o. s.
Concept and dramatization: Jiří Horský
Support: City District Prague 3, Parish of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord, Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Prague, Remmark, Archive of the Capital City of Prague
Special thanks: Miroslav Poche
Patronage: Faculty of Architecture of ČVUT and the Czech Chamber of Architects
Media partner: Era 21
More information: www.archifest.cz
Saturday, September 11, 2010, 7:00 PM.
This year's celebration of architecture is dedicated by the organizers to the ideas of Josip Plečnik – in the form of a dramatization of the Master's letters, presented directly at the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord at Jiří z Poděbrady Square.
Plečnik's letters, addressed to chaplain Alexander Titl from the parish of the church during the design of the temple at the beginning of the last century, illustrate the thoughts and creative doubts accompanying the work on this exceptional masterpiece. The value of the building was publicly confirmed by an act of the Czech government, which declared the Vinohrady church a National Cultural Monument of the Czech Republic in February this year.
The birth of the church in the center of Prague recalls the ancient idea of Slavic mutuality but, as we are more aware today, also the contemporary idea of European belonging. With the help of Czech T. G. Masaryk (then still a member of parliament), a department of architecture was established at the Prague Academy, and Slovenian Plečnik was brought here (in 1911) to become a professor. A deeply believing Catholic, he oriented his teaching towards the classical heritage of Mediterranean architecture. He taught at the school until the First World War; after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, he returned to Ljubljana, where he worked until his death in 1957. In letters he sent to chaplain Titl from his homeland during the design of the temple (and afterwards, until the beginning of the Second World War), he dealt with questions not only related to architecture. According to Professor Matúš Dully from the Faculty of Architecture of ČVUT in Prague, Plečnik believed that Slavs have a different mentality compared to the great Western European nations: he considered antiquity a key starting point, convinced that the modern age is not capable of developing its own distinctive forms... He would not have reconciled himself with the position of the church based solely on the requirements for the economy of construction, acoustics, and visibility of the main altar. His reflections on the significance of the memory of Prague Castle (in the alterations of which he participated) as well as the fact of transferring stones from the substrate of one of the courtyards directly into the foundations of the church testify to this.
This year's dramatization of the reading of selected twenty letters follows the ceremonial reading of selected correspondence during the Archifest 2008.
This year’s Archifest will also see the publication of the mentioned letters in the form of a bibliophile printing in a limited number of 350 numbered copies.
By the end of this year, Friends of Prague 3 will also publish a collected volume of all approximately 200 letters. Both publications are supplemented with notes by Helena Čižinská, Damjan Prelovšek, and David Blažek.
Recipient not found…
Saturday, September 25, 2010, 1:00 PM.
A walk through the residences of artists who lived and created in Žižkov in the 1930s. The journey will be inaugurated by a public reading from the literary works of the creators.
Beginning at the former home of S. K. Neumann, Chelčického 45, Žižkov.
Free entry
Organizer: Friends of Prague 3, o. s.
Concept and dramatization: Jiří Horský
Support: City District Prague 3, Parish of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord, Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Prague, Remmark, Archive of the Capital City of Prague
Special thanks: Miroslav Poche
Patronage: Faculty of Architecture of ČVUT and the Czech Chamber of Architects
Media partner: Era 21
More information: www.archifest.cz
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