Jasan Burin: Design, complete, implement!

Thursday, June 10, 2010, 7:30 PM

Venue: Experimental Space Roxy/NoD, Dlouhá 33, Prague 1
Organizer: Civic Association KRUH

The last lecture of the spring cycle "Us Abroad" organized by the Kruh association will take place unusually on the second Thursday of the month. The architect, draftsman, and lover of vintage cars Jasan Burin (*1929), who worked abroad since the mid-60s, especially in the United Kingdom and the USA, will present his work.

He studied architecture in Brno at the VUT under, among others, B. Fuchs, for whom he was later an assistant. After moving to Prague in 1956, he continued his postgraduate education at the AVU School of Architecture under J. Fragner and became a member of the artistic group Etapa. From the early 60s, as an employee of the n. p. Konstruktiva, he was involved in the design of buildings for Czech embassies and the Czech pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal. From 1965, he supervised the construction of the embassy in London, and after the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he moved to the USA, where he initially designed mainly public buildings for the state of Indiana. Since the early 70s, he has been working at the College of Architecture at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In 1974, he helped Central America, which was affected by earthquakes, as part of a UNESCO program: with students, they created a new urban concept for the city of Managua in Nicaragua. He also utilized his lifelong interest in urbanism in a futuristic project for EPCOT at the University of Communications in Florida for the Walt Disney company. In 1982, he created acclaimed pavilion projects for Expo 82 in Knoxville. He currently lives in Prague and serves as a visiting professor at the College of Architecture at Clemson University.

Admission 60 CZK

Partners: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Experimental Space Roxy/NoD, AVU School of Architecture in Prague
Project supported by: Konsepti, Metrostav a. s., Municipality of the Capital City of Prague, MDA Prague s.r.o., Sipral
Media partners: Era 21, Radio 1, www.archiweb.cz, Cultural Biweekly A2

Info: www.kruh.info, www.nod.roxy.cz

Program subject to change

The Civic Association Kruh has been organizing public events and lectures focused on current events in architecture since 2001. The aim of the lectures and discussions is to facilitate a dialogue about quality Czech and world architecture and architectural creation with broader layers of the public - i.e., beyond the narrow circles of professionals and architecture students. To date, Kruh has organized more than a hundred lectures by prominent and emerging Czech and foreign architects and architectural theorists.