Jan Jehlík: Handbook of Urbanism - Lecture at FUA TUL

Complex approach to urban planning tasks, across the entire spectrum of activities, from small to large scales, from general to specific, from idea to form. Jan Jehlík draws on his many years of professional experience in various roles, having worked as the chief architect of Ústí nad Labem, designed a number of successful buildings, and teaches at the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague, where he is also the principal investigator of research tasks. This lecture will likely be built on the solid foundations of the book of the same name. It is dedicated to all who wish to uncover the laws and connections of urban creation, from students to active architects to curious laypeople.

Who is Jan Jehlík?
An architect-urbanist who reinterprets the idea of a beautiful city. After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University in 1985, he worked in Ústí nad Labem, his hometown, at Stavoproject (until 1991), where he then led the city hall's development department for several years. In 1996, he founded his own architectural office. Since 2007, he has led the Institute of Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University. He deals with the issues of land-use plan assignments and is the organizer of the annual conference Inventory of Urbanism. He was involved in the update of the land-use plan for Ústí nad Labem, is a co-author of the Palace Zdar in Ústí nad Labem (2008), and among other things, has designed several villas in Cartesian, lapidary shapes. He described his conception of contemporary urbanism in his books, such as Community and Settlement. On Landscape, Urbanism, and Architecture (2013), or in the Handbook of Urbanism (2016). In 2015, he participated in the preparations for the Prague Metropolitan Plan.