Jan Stempel: Contemporary Hungarian Architecture and Its Latest Trends

Antiquarian and Club Fiducia, Mlýnská 2, Ostrava invites you to a lecture by the prominent Slovak architect Jan Stempel:

Jan Stempel

Contemporary Hungarian Architecture and Its Latest Trends

November 20, 2008, at 7:00 PM.

Jan Stempel (1959, Spišská Sobota, Slovakia) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Budapest. From 1984 to 1991, he worked at the SIAL studio in Liberec. From 1991 to 2004, he was a co-owner of the architectural office A.D.N.S. in Prague. He currently works in his own architectural office and teaches at the Faculty of Architecture at CTU in Prague. He has focused and continues to focus on projects of new buildings and reconstructions at home and abroad - for example, the Czechoslovak pavilion at the World Expo in Seville (1992), the restoration of the Art Nouveau monument - the Municipal House in Prague (1997), the studio building of Czech Radio in Prague (2000), etc. He is the recipient of numerous architectural awards. He is a licensed architect, a member of the editorial board of the journals Arch and Stavba.

This event has been supported by: The Statutory City of Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education, International Visegrad Fund, Foundation for Czech Architecture, Landek Foundation, OKD Foundation, Hungarian Cultural Center, Hotel Imperial, Hana Rohanová - fa Blažej, Literary Society at the Czech Academy of Sciences - Ostrava branch.