Blue Lecture Series - Peter Stec

The BLUE LECTURE SERIES continues with the 8th lecture. Architect and educator Peter Stec will present.
Peter Stec studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and completed his postgraduate studies at Princeton University. He taught at SUNY Buffalo, Cornell University, Archipe, and VŠVU. He currently works at Umprum in Prague. After experiences at Eisenman Architects, OMA, and H&deM, his practice has been successful in several international competitions. Winning projects include the master plan for the Leaf boarding school and a sports complex for Dukla Pardubice in collaboration with Ján Studený, with whom he is also preparing several public projects in Slovakia. The lecture concerns research conducted under a Fulbright research grant at Rice Architecture in Houston.
The theme of the lecture series Blue Lecture Series is house-concepts. (configurations – processes – compositions – positions – transformations – borders – figures – concealments – anarchitecture – models)
Models are conceptual designs and solutions where through one project as an example we address a broader scope, often directly not included in the assignment. They reveal new positions of architecture, which is created on commission but is not exclusively intended for itself.
A model is an object that mediates our understanding of complex phenomena through their simplification. It is abstract in one position and specific in another, both an idea and an object. It represents reality indirectly. Certain situations can be understood as model-like, reflecting a slice of reality and becoming an opportunity for the emergence of a precedent.