Printed Architecture: Martin Hejl
Vladimír's bookstore Serius and the civic association PLAC cordially invite you to the 23rd lecture in the series "printed architecture". This time on Friday, January 23, 2015, at 6:30 PM in Jablonec, we will welcome architect, theorist, and educator Martin Hejl, who will speak about the book for last year's architectural biennale in Venice.
Ing. arch. Martin Hejl (*1980) is an architect, theorist, and educator. In 2006, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Liberec. In 2007, he worked at the architectural studio BIG. From 2008 to 2012, he worked at the Dutch architectural studio OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). In 2013, he lectured at the Technical University of Liberec and the Prague university Archip. He is a co-founder of the architectural studio Kolmo, which he established together with Lenka Hejlová. In 2014, he co-founded the multimedia studio Loom on the Moon.
The lecture will focus on the book 2×100 mil. m² – Atomization of Modernity: on the Architecture of Large Residential Complexes 1914–2014. This book was created for the Venice Biennale as a record of research on 200 million square meters of area represented by residential space built in Czechoslovakia over the last hundred years. “We phrase this period with six stops that represent the six largest cohesive urban complexes from this period, documented through interviews with their direct participants and subsequent researchers, axonometric drawings, and diagrams. It responds to the theme Absorbing Modernity 1914–2014 in the sense that it seeks to provide testimony of how large narratives of the beginnings of modernity, its visions, ideals, synchronizations with technological innovations, expectations of social changes, manifestos, and perhaps unique opportunities that architecture faced at that time have transformed and absorbed over time: on one hand, they civilly settled into postmodern cautious distrust of totalitarianism, but on the other hand, they grew tired of the reproduction of the proven, of quantity; the current atomization (of project dimensions, office sizes, specialization of professions, creator ambitions) can then be understood as a release, but at the same time as a resignation to large scales. All the material was created over a period of ten months. The classical scientific – art-historical method proved to be too slow, therefore we mobilized a form of interviews, which were deliberately conducted at the respondents' homes. The interviews develop several parallel stories that intertwine and complement each other. These stories are documented in three diagrams.”
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Ing. arch. Martin Hejl (*1980) is an architect, theorist, and educator. In 2006, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Liberec. In 2007, he worked at the architectural studio BIG. From 2008 to 2012, he worked at the Dutch architectural studio OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). In 2013, he lectured at the Technical University of Liberec and the Prague university Archip. He is a co-founder of the architectural studio Kolmo, which he established together with Lenka Hejlová. In 2014, he co-founded the multimedia studio Loom on the Moon.
The lecture will focus on the book 2×100 mil. m² – Atomization of Modernity: on the Architecture of Large Residential Complexes 1914–2014. This book was created for the Venice Biennale as a record of research on 200 million square meters of area represented by residential space built in Czechoslovakia over the last hundred years. “We phrase this period with six stops that represent the six largest cohesive urban complexes from this period, documented through interviews with their direct participants and subsequent researchers, axonometric drawings, and diagrams. It responds to the theme Absorbing Modernity 1914–2014 in the sense that it seeks to provide testimony of how large narratives of the beginnings of modernity, its visions, ideals, synchronizations with technological innovations, expectations of social changes, manifestos, and perhaps unique opportunities that architecture faced at that time have transformed and absorbed over time: on one hand, they civilly settled into postmodern cautious distrust of totalitarianism, but on the other hand, they grew tired of the reproduction of the proven, of quantity; the current atomization (of project dimensions, office sizes, specialization of professions, creator ambitions) can then be understood as a release, but at the same time as a resignation to large scales. All the material was created over a period of ten months. The classical scientific – art-historical method proved to be too slow, therefore we mobilized a form of interviews, which were deliberately conducted at the respondents' homes. The interviews develop several parallel stories that intertwine and complement each other. These stories are documented in three diagrams.”
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