After the Summit: Jana Pavlová and Adéla Gjuričová
The lecture series After the Velvet Revolution: The Architecture of Pilsen "at the End of History" will conclude with its fourth part on Wednesday, December 4, 2019, at the administrative building housing the regional corporate center of Česká spořitelna on Divadelní Street. Historian Adéla Gjuričová from the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and historian and architecture theorist Jana Pavlová, who was one of the curators of the progressive Prague Gallery VI PER last year and this year, will focus on the social and political dimensions of the post-November transformation of society and the role that postmodern architecture of banking buildings played in this transformation.
For a long time, it seemed that the 1990s were not sufficiently distant from the present for historical research; however, they have since become the subject of retro fashion. Adéla Gjuričová in her presentation Democratic Package with a Surprise will summarize the results of her research on the post-November transformation of political institutions, including, for example, municipal self-governments, and its cultural and social consequences. “She will attempt to demonstrate the specific political and ideological context of the time, which combined radical purification from the communist past with the delegitimization of regulation in various areas of human activity,” says Petr Klíma from the organizing association Pěstuj prostor.
Jana Pavlová in her lecture Temples of Money – The Architecture of Banking Socialism will present this architecture as a manifestation of a specific phase in Czech history after 1989 defined by the government of Václav Klaus, whose identity was shaped by newly established banking institutions in light of their key role in the economic transformation process. She will also address contemporary debates about the architectural representation of “temples of money,” which included criticism of postmodernism as an aesthetic correlative of neoliberalism, as it took shape in the 1980s in the West. “Jana Pavlová will also attempt to draw some parallels between the construction of the corporate identity of banks and the identity of the new democratic state and to reveal, more generally, the scenography of social and political transformation, its ideals, and myths,” adds Petr Klíma.
Admission to the event is 50 CZK. The series is prepared by the association Pěstuj prostor with the support of the city of Pilsen, the Czech Ministry of Culture, and the Czech Architecture Foundation. It aims to support and develop the interest of the local professional and broader public in architecture and the built and landscape environment of the city.
PhDr. Adéla Gjuričová, Ph.D. works at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She focuses on political and social history during late socialism, the 1989 revolution, and post-communist transformation. Her research centers on the history of Czechoslovak parliamentarism and also psychiatry during socialism. Currently, she leads the Czech team of the European project JPICH “European History Reloaded,” which deals with historical narratives in contemporary audiovisual culture. She is the author of several scholarly articles and co-author and editor of books, including Divided by the Past: The Creation of Political Identities in the Czech Republic After 1989 and Architects of a Long Change: Expert Roots of Postsocialism in Czechoslovakia (1980–1995). Her most significant work is her monograph with Tomáš Zahradníček Return of the Parliament: Czechs and Slovaks in the Federal Assembly 1989–1992.
Mgr. Jana Pavlová is a graduate in Art History from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague and in Theory and History of Art from the AAAD in Prague. Her work mainly focuses on postmodern architectural discourse. She is a co-author of a documentary and the author of the book project Temples of Money. Czech Postmodern Architecture of Banking Houses and Savings Banks in the 1990s and the exhibition project KLASIK. The Image of the Average Family House 1989–2015. From 2018 to 2019, she was a member of the curatorial team of Gallery VI PER.
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For a long time, it seemed that the 1990s were not sufficiently distant from the present for historical research; however, they have since become the subject of retro fashion. Adéla Gjuričová in her presentation Democratic Package with a Surprise will summarize the results of her research on the post-November transformation of political institutions, including, for example, municipal self-governments, and its cultural and social consequences. “She will attempt to demonstrate the specific political and ideological context of the time, which combined radical purification from the communist past with the delegitimization of regulation in various areas of human activity,” says Petr Klíma from the organizing association Pěstuj prostor.
Jana Pavlová in her lecture Temples of Money – The Architecture of Banking Socialism will present this architecture as a manifestation of a specific phase in Czech history after 1989 defined by the government of Václav Klaus, whose identity was shaped by newly established banking institutions in light of their key role in the economic transformation process. She will also address contemporary debates about the architectural representation of “temples of money,” which included criticism of postmodernism as an aesthetic correlative of neoliberalism, as it took shape in the 1980s in the West. “Jana Pavlová will also attempt to draw some parallels between the construction of the corporate identity of banks and the identity of the new democratic state and to reveal, more generally, the scenography of social and political transformation, its ideals, and myths,” adds Petr Klíma.
Admission to the event is 50 CZK. The series is prepared by the association Pěstuj prostor with the support of the city of Pilsen, the Czech Ministry of Culture, and the Czech Architecture Foundation. It aims to support and develop the interest of the local professional and broader public in architecture and the built and landscape environment of the city.
PhDr. Adéla Gjuričová, Ph.D. works at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She focuses on political and social history during late socialism, the 1989 revolution, and post-communist transformation. Her research centers on the history of Czechoslovak parliamentarism and also psychiatry during socialism. Currently, she leads the Czech team of the European project JPICH “European History Reloaded,” which deals with historical narratives in contemporary audiovisual culture. She is the author of several scholarly articles and co-author and editor of books, including Divided by the Past: The Creation of Political Identities in the Czech Republic After 1989 and Architects of a Long Change: Expert Roots of Postsocialism in Czechoslovakia (1980–1995). Her most significant work is her monograph with Tomáš Zahradníček Return of the Parliament: Czechs and Slovaks in the Federal Assembly 1989–1992.
Mgr. Jana Pavlová is a graduate in Art History from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague and in Theory and History of Art from the AAAD in Prague. Her work mainly focuses on postmodern architectural discourse. She is a co-author of a documentary and the author of the book project Temples of Money. Czech Postmodern Architecture of Banking Houses and Savings Banks in the 1990s and the exhibition project KLASIK. The Image of the Average Family House 1989–2015. From 2018 to 2019, she was a member of the curatorial team of Gallery VI PER.
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