Port Autumn 2020 - Lecture Series at FA VUT

On the occasion of the largest exhibition of Eduardo Souto de Moura at Casa da Arquitectura (running until March 2021), we decided to dedicate the entire winter semester to the creators in the second largest Portuguese city, where two Pritzker Prize winners live and work together. Additionally, in September 2020, Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha (another Pritzker Prize winner) decided to donate his entire archive of 8,800 items to the Casa da Arquitectura in Matosinhos. It is currently one of the most significant architectural institutions in the world.
After nine previous cycles focused on architectural creation in a specific country, this autumn we will head to a city located on the Atlantic Ocean. The goal of six lectures will be to explain the continuity of Porto's architecture from the Carnation Revolution to the present. Subsequently, in spring 2021, we will dedicate the entire semester to the Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron. Lectures by Petr Šmídek take place at the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology for all interested in contemporary architecture every even Tuesday in room A118 from 5:00 PM.

29.9. Álvaro Siza I.
Works from 1960-2000

13.10. Álvaro Siza II.
Works from 2000-2020

27.10. Souto Moura I.
Works from 1980-2000

10.11. Souto Moura II.
Works from 2000-2020

24.11. Brandao Costa
The most promising contemporary Porto architect

8.12. Nuñové
Nuño Grande, Nuño Moura, Nuño Sampaio

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Architecture Today - Lecture Series at the Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology
This autumn series again responds to current architectural events both here and especially abroad. It presents exhibitions in advance, freshly published publications, and highlights interesting speakers who will visit the Czech Republic. Lectures by Petr Šmídek take place at the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology for all interested in contemporary architecture every odd Tuesday in room A118 from 5:00 PM.

22.9. Volker Staab
Twenty years after the opening of the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, the largest exhibition of Berlin architect Volker Staab is hosted, for whom the museum was his first independent realization.

6.10. Thom Mayne
On the occasion of the exhibition of the founder of the Los Angeles studio Morphosis at the Berlin foundation of Sergey Choban and his Museum of Architectural Sketch.

20.10. Laurids Ortner
On the occasion of the opening of the new Libelle pavilion in the Vienna museum quarter Museumsquartier, we will recall the formative period of Haus-Rücker-Co and the further work of the Ortner brothers.

3.11. Norwegian Scene
Twenty years of the operation of the civic association Kruh promoting architecture. This autumn, Reiulf Ramstad, Johan Celsing, Per Johanson, and other Scandinavian architects will present.

16.11. Barozzi Veiga
Regarding the exhibition of the Barcelona duo Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga at the Czech Budejovice House of Art.

1.12. Japanese Women
In connection with the exhibition of Erika Nakagawa at the Tokyo gallery TOTO, we will also introduce other Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima, Kumiko Inui, Itsuko Hasegawa, and Makiko Tsukada.

15.12. Berlin Scene
The fortieth anniversary of the Berlin gallery AEDES, which has prepared hundreds of freely accessible exhibitions and contributed to the development of not only the German scene after the fall of the Berlin Wall.