Martin Strakoš: Why do heritage conservators not understand new architecture and architects not understand historical environments?

The Antiquarian Bookshop and Club Fiducia and the National Heritage Institute Ostrava invite you to a lecture:

Martin Strakoš: Why do heritage specialists not understand new architecture and architects historic environments?
December 9, 2010, at 18:00 at the Antiquarian Bookshop and Club Fiducia

The lecture is part of the media plan of the National Heritage Institute "New in the Old. Contemporary Architecture and Historical Cities." Heritage on one side and new architecture on the other. Both sides – heritage specialists and architects – have their own value systems and adhere to their rules, although some architects may be heritage professionals and some heritage specialists
may eventually turn to the path of designing architects. How do heritage specialists and architects assess each other? What are the outcomes of new architecture in a historical context and how is the discussion about the best and worst cases of new architecture's entry into a historical city conducted? What are the approaches of heritage preservation in relation to new architecture and architects' attitudes towards historical environments? The author will seek answers not only to these questions in his commentary on examples of new architecture in historical development. In cooperation with the National Heritage Institute, Ostrava Regional Office.

Martin Strakoš (1972) - historian of architecture and art, graduate of the Faculty of Arts at Palacký University Olomouc, currently works at the Ostrava office of the National Heritage Institute and lectures at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava. He focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries, contemporary architectural creation, art, and heritage preservation. He publishes in specialized journals such as ERA 21, Stavba, or in the cultural magazine Protimluv. He collaborated on publications about architect Jiří Kroh (2007), on architecture in the Brussels style as part of the exhibition Brussels Dream (2008), and on Famous Villas of the Moravian-Silesian Region (2008). Last year, the Ostrava office of the National Heritage Institute published the author’s publication Guide to the Architecture of Ostrava.

The events of the Antiquarian Bookshop and Club Fiducia are supported by: The Statutory City of Ostrava, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry for Regional Development, the Foundation for Czech Architecture, ČSOB, the Via Foundation, and the Feltl couple.