Cycle Matadors/Matladoras - Viktor Rudiš

The cycle Matadors/ Matadoras continues with the second lecture

Thu 07.05 09 19h

Viktor Rudiš. The 60s: Beginning and End

The second lecture in the Matadors/ Matadoras cycle will present the work of the Brno architect Viktor Rudiš (* 1927). His works from the 60s, particularly the project of the Lesná housing estate in Brno and the Czechoslovak pavilion in Osaka, hold significant importance in the development of architecture. These projects, as the title of the lecture suggests, fall right at the beginning and end of the 60s. However, the architecturally exceptional and diverse era of the 60s also metaphorically represents the beginning and end of creative possibilities and quality opportunities for our architecture in general.
In the project of the Brno housing estate Lesná, Viktor Rudiš collaborated with architect František Zouněk. This realization is considered one of the highest quality examples of residential complexes from the 60s to the 80s in our country. Architects Rudiš and Zouněk demonstrated great effort towards the quality of individual residential and civic buildings and a sensitivity to the urban integration of the large complex into the landscape.
Architect Rudiš rounded off the favorable period of the 60s with the aforementioned design of the Czechoslovak pavilion at EXPO in Osaka in 1970. Alongside the architectural design, the overall success of the pavilion was contributed to by a unique collective of authors for the artistic and conceptual design: Jan Skácel, Stanislav Libenský, Jaroslava Brychtová, Čestmír Kafka, Vladimír Janoušek, Zdeněk Palcr, Jiří Kolář and others. The realization of the pavilion can be considered, both artistically and content-wise, as the culmination - and unfortunately also the conclusion - of the exhibition successes of Czechoslovakia in the second half of the 20th century. The lecture will thus bring closer the exceptional work of one of the "matadors" of our architecture and will recall those beginnings and ends of creative efforts, ideals, and successes of Czech architecture in the 60s in a broader context.

Location:
Experimental Space Roxy/NoD, Dlouhá 33, Prague 1
Entrance free

Publications and T-shirts from the Circle will be on sale at a discounted price during the lectures

Partners: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Experimental Space Roxy/NoD, AVU School of Architecture Prague
Supported by: Konsepti, Metrostav a. s., City Hall of Prague, MDA Prague s.r.o., MDA Ostrava s.r.o., AV Media, Sipral
Media Partners: Era 21, Radio 1, www.archiweb.cz, Cultural Weekly A2
Info: www.kruh.info, www.nod.roxy.cz