Printed Architecture: Ján Stempel and Jan Jakub Tesař

28th part of the lecture series Printed Architecture at the Jablonec bookstore Serius will take place on Friday, June 5, 2015, at 6:30 PM, featuring architects Ján Stempel and Jan Jakub Tesař. As part of a free series of lectures on housing, the lecture will focus on the book Czech Houses / České domy, which was prepared with Ondřej Beneš.

The book presents an author's selection of 33 realizations of family houses that were designed and constructed in the Czech Republic after 1989. The book primarily contains extensive photographic documentation, accompanied by explanatory and, to a lesser extent, evaluative comments on the individual buildings. The photographs are also supplemented with drawing documentation for each of the buildings, at the same scale, which allows for the comparison of the size and arrangement of individual layouts. The introductory text presents the contexts in which the houses were created. The book is supplemented with reviews by Eugen Asse, Ákos Moravánszký, and Adam Gebrian, which critically assess the state of Czech architecture of family houses. The book is in English with a Czech translation.



Prof. Ing. arch. Ján Stempel (*1959) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University in Budapest. From 1983 to 1990, he worked at the Liberec Stavoprojekt, and then from 1990 to 1991 at the SIAL studio in Liberec. From 1991 to 2004, he was a co-owner of the architectural office A.D.N.S. in Prague. He participated in the projects of many new buildings and reconstructions both at home and abroad. Since 2008, he has been leading the office Stempel & Tesar architects together with Jan Tesař. He teaches at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he has been the head of the Design Institute since 2012. He is a licensed architect and a member of the editorial board of the magazines Arch (since 1998) and Stavba (since 2004).

Ing. arch. Jan Jakub Tesař (*1981) during his studies at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University completed a study internship at the Technical University in Delft, Netherlands. Since 2008, he has been leading the office Stempel & Tesar architects together with Ján Stempel. Since 2012, he has been studying a postgraduate program at the Czech Technical University.

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