Jiří Tourek – Classical Order Architecture in Italian and Czech Execution

Mgr. Jiří Tourek, Ph.D. will present how Brunelleschi, Alberti, and Bramante reestablished the order of architecture, and especially how this manifested in the Czech environment: with examples of early realizations of columnar orders in the area of Prague Castle and several works from a later period. The lecture will thus deal with five columnar orders of classical architecture. Not, however, with the columns themselves, their appearance or significance, but rather with how they were used on various buildings.

Mgr. Jiří Tourek, Ph.D. specializes in the philosophy and theory of architecture, particularly modern and contemporary architecture, as well as architecture of the classical tradition. He is currently a pedagogical worker at the Institute of Theory and History of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Czech Technical University, while also long-term working at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University. His research activity has resulted in, among other things, his own publication "Thinking Architecture: Late Thoughts of Peter Eisenman and His Critical Theory of Architecture" from 2019. His most current endeavor is the translation of a book dedicated to the classical language of architecture.